Ghada Hamdi Ahmed

● Nanoparticles and advanced low-dimensional colloidal nanomaterials for light-harvesting systems

● Development of novel Donor-Acceptor systems for light energy conversion devices

● Developing the physics behind low cost photovoltaic concepts in strongly confined semiconductor nanocrystals-based devices

● Femtosecond and nonlinear optical spectroscopies

The Impact of Electrostatic Interactions on Ultrafast Charge Transfer at Ag29 Nanoclusters-Fullerene and CdTe Quantum Dots-Fullerene Interfaces
G. H. Ahmed , M. R. Parida, A.Tosato, L.G. AbdulHalim, A. Usman, Q. A. Alsulami, B. Murali, E. Alarousu, O. M. Bakr, O. F. Mohammed
J. Mater. Chem. C, 4, pp 2894-2900, (2016)
Quantum Confinement-Tunable Intersystem Crossing and the Triplet State Lifetime of Cationic Porphyrin-CdTe Quantum Dot Nano-Assemblies
G. H. Ahmed, S. M. Aly, A. Usman, M. S. Eita, V. A. Melnikov, O. F. Mohammed
Chem. Commun., 51, pp 8010-8013, (2015)
Direct Femtosecond Observation of Charge Carrier Recombination in Ternary Semiconductor Nanocrystals: The Effect of Composition and Shelling
R. Bose, G. H. Ahmed, E.Alarousu, M. R. Parida, A. L. Abdelhady, O. M. Bakr, O. F. Mohammed
J. Phys.Chem.C, 119, 3439-3446, (2015)
Molecular-Structure Control of Ultrafast Electron Injection at Cationic Porphyrin–CdTe Quantum Dot Interfaces
S. M. Aly, G. H. Ahmed, B. S. Shaheen, J. Sun, O. F. Mohammed
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6, 791-795, (2015)
Solvent-Dependent Excited-State Hydrogen Transfer and Intersystem Crossing in 2-(2′-Hydroxyphenyl)-Benzothiazole
S. M. Aly, A. Usman, M. AlZayer, G. H. Ahmed, E. Alarousu, E, O. F. Mohammed
J. Phys.Chem. B, 119, 2596-2603, (2015)

2014 - present: PhD. Student in Chemical Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
2011 - 2013: MSc. in Nanotechnology, Nile University (NU), Egypt
2006 - 2010: BSc. in Chemistry, Fayoum University, Egypt

2014 - 2015: Internship Student at Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy and Four-dimensional Electron Imaging Laboratory, SPERC, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2011 - 2014: Research Assistant at Nanotechnology Center, Nile University, Egypt

● Solar & Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center(SPERC)

● Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE)

Photophysics Photochemistry Ultrafast laser spectroscopy