Dr. Mohamed Khayet is a professor of Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, General Physics and Renewable Energy Applications at the Department of Applied Physics I, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid and Associated Researcher in the Institute IMDEA Water, IMDEA Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies. He coordinating various national and international projects funded by different institutions. He contributed a substantial number of articles on the subject of membrane science and technology to various international refereed journals. He filed 3 International Patents on the fabrication of novel membranes for desalination by Membrane Distillation (MD). Recently, he published 2 books: “Membrane Distillation: Principles and Applications, Elsevier (2011)” and “Membrane Modification: Technology and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (2012)”. He is also author of other two books and various chapters in books. He is member of professional societies and Editorial member of many journals.
He received the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) 5th Award in 2012 on Alternative Water Resources (Saudi Arabia) for his novel and creative work membrane distillation technology that he has studied and promoted in all its theoretical and experimental aspects.
His research interests include Design and fabrication of smart membranes, nano-fibrous membranes, hollow fibers, nano-composites, thermal conductivity of nano-fluids, Transport phenomena through dense and porous media, Solar energy, Separation processes through membranes, Thermodynamics properties of solid surfaces, polymers, Theoretical models and optimization using artificial neural networks and response surface methodology.
