1- Research Interests

Synthesis and Characterisation of magnetic oxide (bulk and nanoparticles; pure and doped). I mainly worked on measuring the magnetic and electrical properties of thin film samples grown by pulsed laser deposition. Of special interest to us was the possible application of these materials in Spintronics.  Our research involved extensive use of XRD, SQUID, XPS, and TEM.
2- Research Grants

I have got an internal research grant at U. of K. to carry out a research project involving the synthesis, structure, magnetic and electrical properties of materials similar to those mentioned in the previous section. One special facility available at U. of K. that can be used in this research is Mössbauer spectroscopy.

3- Conference Participation (Oral presentation and Posters):

1. Joint Meeting of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Network on Magnetic Oxide and Perovskite, Burton Manor, UK, October 2003.
2. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference (CMMP 2004), Institute of Physics, University of Warwick, UK, April 2004.
3. Spintronics and Nanomagnetism Meeting, Institute of Physics, London,UK, 2005.
4. First Sharjah International Conference on Nanotechnology and Its Applications, The American University of Sharjah, Sharjah UAE, April 2007.
5. The African Regional College on Science at the Nanoscale, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-30 November 2007.
6. Regional Workshop on Nanotechnology, Oman, Muscat, January 2008.
7. The 5^th Congress of Scientific Research Outlook in the Arab World -Scientific Innovation and Sustained Development, Fez Morocco, October 2008.

4- Scientific Research Visits:

1. The Magnetism Research Group of Professor J. M. D. Coey, Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland, 2004.
2. The Magnetism Research Group of Professor S. M. Thompson, Physics Department, University of York,  York, UK,  2005.
3. The Magnetism and Mössbauer Research Group, Physics Department, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, 2008.