Mohamed Morsy is a professor of chemistry at the College of Chemicals and Materials at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He will join Johns Hopkins this summer as a visiting research professor and work mainly with Michael Kessler.
His research interests include mechanistic chemistry of chemical, photo, and electrochemical oxidation using various spectroscopic techniques, mapping of oil, chemistry of asphaltenes, aging of polymer, structure of glasses, and degradation of organic pollutants. He frequently employs free radicals and electron paramagnetic resonance to characterize the properties and reactivity of nanomaterials and free radicals in other systems.
Morsy is a member of numerous scientific and professional societies, including the American Chemical Society’s Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Divisions and Computer Division, the Saudi Chapter of the American Chemical Society, and the International EPR Society.
Morsy has an impressive publication record with over 100 papers in journals and conferences, one book, and 10 U.S. patents. He has completed 15 research projects funded by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, SABIC, ARAMCO, and/or KFUPM, totaling approximately $4 million. He has supervised over 20 MS theses and PhD dissertations and has been welcomed as a keynote or invited speaker at more than 50 national and international conferences.
He earned his PhD in chemistry from KFUPM University in 1993 and his MS and BS in chemistry from Alexandria University in 1987.