Dr. Abdullah J. Al-Hamdan
Assistant Professor

 Chemistry Department,
KFUPM,
Dhahran 31261,
Saudi Arabia

Education :

             1978    :           B.Sc.  Chemistry ,  King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals,

                                    Dhahran , Saudi Arabia

             1986    :           Ph. D.  Organic Chemistry

                                    University of California, Irvine.

 Employment:

 1978-1979       :           Teaching Assistant at King Fahd Univ.  of Petroleum and Minerals.

 1986-Present   :           Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, KFUPM.

Sept. 2006-Aug 2014:     Chairman, Chemistry Department, KFUPM

 

COMMITTEES:

University:    

·         member of organizing Committee for the Third National Meeting of Chemists ( 1989).

·         member of Tryout committee for RAM2 Exam for the year 1423-1424 and 1424-1425

 

            Departmental Standing Committees:

            I have served in the following committees either as a member (m) or a chairman (C) of the committee several times.

           

1-         Faculty Application Evaluation Committee  (m , C)

2-         Research Committee       (m)

3-         Graduate Studies Committee (m)

4-         Information Committee (m)

5-         Curriculum Committee (m)

6-         Staff Application Committee (m)

7-         Seminar Coordinator

8-         Chemistry Club    (m)

9-         Space Utilization Committee (C)

10-       Safety Committee  (m)

11-       Lab. Development Committee (C)

12-       Planning Committee (m)

13-       Adivisory and Planning Committee (m)

 

            Departmental Ad hoc Committees:

            I have served in many departmental Ad hoc committees such as:

 

1-         Committee to study the draft for departmental advising guidlines and faculty        advising guidlines  ( chairman , 1993).

2-         Committee to study teaching load assignment.( member)

3-         Committee to select a candidate for the best teacher  award.

4-                  Committee to select a candidate for the best staff member award.

5-                  Committee to review the chemistry undergraduate curriculum.

 

 

 

PhD  thesis Committees:

            I was a member of one PhD  student thesis:

S.M. Azhar Hashmi  “ Regioselective Synthesis of a Variety of Nitrones and Their Applications in Organic Synthesis Including Asymmetric Induction”   Nov  1998

           

 

MS thesis Committees:

            I was a member of four  Ms students theses committees:

 

1-         Hasan A. S. Al-Muallem “ Cycloaddition Reactions of A Heterocyclic Nitrone”    (1992).

2-         Alam Nizami  “ ChemicAl Aspects of Thermal Instability in Jet Fuels From Saudi-            Arabian Crude Oil”  (1993).

3-         Mohammad Hassan AlQam   “ The Role of Asphaltenes, Resins and other Solids in the Stabilization of Water in Oil Emulsions and its Effect in Oil Production in Saudi Oil Fields”   June 1997.

4-                  Sheakha Abdullah Al-Khursani  “ Synthesis of Some New Glycosides”

Dammam Girls College, 1998.

5-         Ali A. Al-Tag  " Synthesis and studies of Corrosion inhibitors of variety of 1,12 –dedocanediamine derivatives" 2000

 

 Teaching:

I have taught each of the following courses several times:

 

CHEM 101     General Chemistry I

CHEM 102     General Chemistry II

CHEM 210     Organic Chemistry I

CHEM 202     Organic Chemistry II

CHEM 303     Qualitative Organic Analysis

CHEM 411     Senior Project I

CHEM 412     Senior Project II

CHEM 421     Advanced Organic Chemistry  ( for under graduate)

CHEM 530     Advanced Organic Chemistry  ( for   graduate)