Dr. Fatma Ismail is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), specializing in nanomaterials, heterogeneous catalysis, and electrochemical energy conversion. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada, where her research focused on the development of advanced electrocatalysts and membrane electrode assemblies (MEA) for efficient CO₂ electroreduction to value-added products. Prior to joining KFUPM, Dr. Ismail worked as a Senior Research Scientist at CERT Systems Inc. in Toronto/Canada, where she contributed to the scale-up and performance optimization of electrochemical systems for carbon dioxide utilization. Her work involved catalyst design and integration into MEA for industrially relevant flow electrolyzer configurations. She played a key role in bridging laboratory-scale innovations with scalable electrochemical reactor technologies, enabling significant developments in sustainable CO₂-to-C2 products conversion processes. Dr. Ismail’s research has been widely published in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, ACS Catalysis, Nano Energy, and ACS Applied Energy Materials. She has held research positions in different leading institutions including Georgia Tech in the US, KAUST in SA, and the Canada Center for Electron Microscopy in Canada. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates materials synthesis, advanced characterization (e.g., in-situ TEM, XAS), and electrochemical system design, with a vision to drive sustainable innovations in clean energy technologies
