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Employments and Professional experience

-Lecturer, 1998-2002, University of SBA.

-Assistant Professor, University of SBA 2003.

-Associate Professor, University of SBA, 2005

-Associate Researcher, Computational Material Science Laboratory, University of SBA: 1998-2003.

-Associate Researcher at Max-Planck Institut fur Mikrostructurphysik, (Germany), 2003-2004.

-Associate Researcher at National Taiwan University, Taipei (Taiwan), 2004-2005.

-Associate Researcher at Minnesota University (USA), 2006-2007.

-Associate Researcher at Postech University, (South Korea), 2007-2009.

-Associate Professor at King Saud University, 2010-2014.

-Professor King Saud University, since 2014 .

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERTISE:
 

l   Programming experience in multiple languages (python, perl, c++, Fortran 90, Matlab, Mathematica, and shell scripts, etc).

l   Numerical analysis: numerical methods, including Hubbard, Ising, Heisenberg, Molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo techniques.

l   Visualisation( Gnuplot, Matlab, ImageMagick, Rasmol, CrystalDens, Xmgrace, Latex).  

l   Extensive scientific computational experience using many operating systems and supercomputing facilities, expertise in scientific programming. Systems-Linux-PC, Linux-Cluster, IBM, NEC, Opteron,…

RESEARCH SKILLS:

Nano-scale device modeling:         

• Device modeling for solid-state quantum physics.
• Numerical and analytical modeling of naomaterials.
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• Keywords : TBTE, TBMD, MD, MC, FLAPW, LMTO, ASW, Pseudopotential, DFT codes, structural phase transition alloys, VCA, CPA, RPA, STM, linear and non-linear optics, transport, spin waves,  spin dynamics, noncollinear magnetism, Ising, Hesisenberg, and Hubbard models, modelling structures: clusters, defects, magnetic systems, surface, interface, polymers, superlattices, nanotubes, and nanowires.

Technical group supervisor:

Supervising 10 masters in condensed matter physics and theoretical physics.

Committee member of examining of 9 master students and 1 PhD student.