Dr. Ahmed Al Hajaj is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Khalifa University and a former visiting professor at MIT from 2015 to 2016. Dr. Al Hajaj received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona in 2004. He followed with his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami in 2006 and another in Sustainable Energy Futures from the Imperial College London in 2008. In 2014, Dr. Al Hajaj completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.
Dr. Al Hajaj's research field is at the interface of chemical engineering, operations research, computational chemistry, and biology. His research focuses on major areas of process systems engineering: product synthesis and process design, operation and scheduling, optimization, and control. His research goal is to develop systematic tools that help process industries understand the performance of complex systems and solve decision-making issues.
Dr. Al Hajaj aims to enhance the student’s ability to apply and integrate chemical engineering elements to solve problems of analysis, design, operation, control, and optimization in chemical engineering practice. His goal is to improve the student's ability to develop first-principle mathematical models derived from an understanding of the fundamental process of physics and the interaction between physics and mathematical/numerical solution methods.
