Program

Program

Lecture Hall,
4D2

Monday, February 3, 2025

Welcome and Introduction

09:00-09:30         Bernhard Keimer              MPI for Solid State Research

                                                                           Max Planck Society and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

09:30-10:00         Ghaleb Natour                  Forschungszentrum Jülich & RWTH Aachen

                                                                          The Palestinian-German Science Bridge

10:00-10:30         Coffee break

Materials for Sustainable Energy I

10:30-11:00         Simon Krause                  MPI for Solid State Research & University of Ulm

                                                                         Functional Light-Induced Dynamics in Framework Materials       

11:00-11:30         Hikmat S. Hilal                 An-Najah National University       

                                                                          Strategies to Improve Nanofilm Electrode Characteristics for

                                                                          Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells with Higher Performance

11:30-11:45         Heba Nassar                    An-Najah National University       

                                                                          Efficient Electro-catalytic Removal of Aqueous Nitrate using Nano-                                                                          copper Particles

11:45-12:00         Ibrahim Nassar                An-Najah National University       

                                                                          Electro-Mineralization of Aqueous Phenazopyridine Using Platinum   

                                                                          Nanoparticles Deposited onto Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

12:00-12.15         Luca Camuti                    MPI for Solid State Research       

                                                                          Direct Imaging of Electrochemical Palladium Hydride Formation

                                                                          from PdCoO2 for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

12:15-13:30         Lunch                                          

Nanomagnetism and Spintronics I

13:30-14:00         Stefan Blügel                   Forschungszentrum Jülich

                                                                         Magnons in metallic altermagnets: Insights from many-body perturbation theory

14:00-14:30         Muayad Abu Saa            Arab American University

                                                                         Magnetic and Thermal Properties of Graphene Magnetic Quantum Dots

14:30-15:00         Claire Donnelly                MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids

                                                                         Topological textures in nanomagnets from x-ray tomography

15:00-15:15         Mahmoud Zeer               Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                         Exploring Spin-orbitronics and Topological Effects in 2D Rare-Earth

                                                                         Dichalcogenides

15:15-15:30         Mohammed Qahoosh   Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                         Establishing fundamentals of ARPES spin textures with the model

                                                                         material PtTe

15:30-16:00         -- Coffee break

Advanced Experimental Methods

16:00-16:30         Andrea Lausi                   SESAME Synchrotron Light Source

                                                                         Experimental facilities at SESAME

16:30-17:00         Adli Saleh                         Arab American University  

                                                                         Surface Analytical Techniques: Advances and Challenges

17:00-17:30         Ghaleb Natour                Forschungszentrum Jülich & RWTH Aachen

                                                                         Engineering and technology for materials research via neutron science

17:30-18:00         Giulia Pacchioni              Nature Reviews Materials

                                                                         Q&A Session on Scientific Publishing

18:30-20:00         Dinner at MPI and subsequent discussions -

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Materials for Sustainable Energy II     

9:00-9:30            Michael Saliba                  University of Stuttgart

                                                                         Perovskite Solar Cells

9:30-10:00           Zafer Hawash                  Birzeit University    

                                                                          Chemical and electronic interfacial dynamics in perovskite halide solar cells   

10:00-10:30         Iyad Saadeddin                An-Najah National University       

                                                                          Enhanced Supercapacitor Performance through Laser Modified

                                                                          Activated Carbon

10:30-11:00         Coffee break

11:00-11:15         Ahmad Jabr                     An-Najah National University       

                                                                          Methylene Blue Adsorption by Laser-Modified Activated Carbon

11:15-11:30         Sara Akhereibi                 Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                          Resolving the Microstructure of AZO Thin Films on silicon solar cell substrates

11:30-11:45         Fatmeh Estaiteh              Arab American University  

                                                                          Screen printing metallization for n-TOPCon

11:45-12:00         Maisam Shadid               Arab American University  

                                                                          Effect of TiN electrodes and Gd-doping on HfO₂ structural properties

12:00-13:00         Lunch

Nanomagnetism and Spintronics II

13:00-13:30         Samir Lounis                    Forschungszentrum Jülich & University of Halle

                                                                          Spintronics in the nanoworld: from magnetic skyrmions down to single

                                                                          adatoms

13:30-14:00         Ali Alavi                              MPI for Solid State Research       

                                                                           Challenges and recent progress in the quantum chemical description

                                                                           of open-shell molecules and spin systems

14:00-14:15         Sufyan Shehada               Forschungszentrum Jülich

                                                                          Ab-initio investigation of the interplay between the hyperfine

                                                                           interaction and complex magnetism

14:15-14:30         Hend Shahed                   Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                          The Barocaloric Effect in Spin Crossover Compounds

14:30-14:45         Eman Raddad                  Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                          Effect of deuteration on caloric effects in spin-crossover compounds

                                                                          of Fe(PM-BiA)2(NCS)2

14:45-15:00         Khaled Abdulhaq             An-Najah National University       

                                                                          Single electron in an asymmetric double quantum dot

15:00-15:30         -- Coffee break

15:30-16:00        F. Stefan Tautz                  Forschungszentrum Jülich

                                                                          Nanoscale Engineering of Quantum Systems at Surfaces

16:00-16:30         Laura Guasco                 MPI for Solid State Research & MLZ Garching

                                                                          Impact of hydrogenation on magnetic structures from neutron reflectometry

16:30-17:00         Amal Aldarawsheh         Forschungszentrum Jülich

                                                                         Emergence of zero field intrinsic antiferromagnetic solitons in thin films

17:00-17:15         Amir Tavabi                     Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                         Novel Instrumentation for Studies of Light-Electron-Matter Interactions and

                                                                         Advanced Magnetic Imaging in the Transmission Electron Microscope

17:15-17:30        Nihad Abuawwad           Forschungszentrum Jülich 

                                                                         Electrical Engineering of Topological Magnetism in Two-Dimensional

                                                                         Heterobilayers                                                         

18:30-20:00         Dinner Stuttgart Vaihingen / final discussions –

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Electronic Materials and Devices

9:00-9:30             Hazem Khanfar              Arab American University  

                                                                         Smart performance of polycrystalline WO3 thin films achieved via

                                                                        aluminum nanosheet coating

9:30-10:00           Bernhard Keimer           Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research   

                                                                        Electronic reconstructions at metal-oxide interfaces

10:00-10:15         Lara Abu Samen            Arab American University  

                                                                        Al-Sb stacks designed for electro-optical applications

10:15-10:30          Michael Neumann        Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

                                                                         Mechanism of single photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride                                                                                  

10:30-11:00         Coffee break

11:00-11:30         Gideok Kim                     Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

                                                                        Synthesis and applications of metal-oxide heterostructures

11:30-12:00         Atef Qasrawi                  Arab American University  

                                                                        Growth of Nb₂O₅ Oxide Layers on Selenium Substrates for Enhanced

                                                                        Optical Absorption and Microwave Oscillations

12:00-12:15         Bayan Kmail                   Arab American University  

                                                                        Nb2O5 nanosheets designed for high-frequency applications

12:15:12:30         Bahaa Asad                    Birzeit University    

                                                                        ZnO decorated with Au for HCN gas sensing using density functional theory

12:30-13:30         – Lunch –

13:30-13:45         Ksenia Rabinovich        Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

                                                                        Epitaxial growth and stoichiometry control of pyrochlore Nd2Ru2O7 thin films

13:45-14:00         Wala Ghannam             Arab American University

                                                                       Design and applications of SeO₂ microwires

14:00-14:15          Fadil Al-Jaljouli            Forschungszentrum Jülich

                                                                       Modeling and characterizing all-solid-state batteries based on

                                                                       continuum mechanics

14:15-14:30          Sameh Othman           Forschungszentrum Jülich

                                                                       Active Matter under Alignment Field

14:30-15:00         – Coffee break –

15:00-16:30         Closing discussion and individual exchange

16:30-17:30         MPI Laboratory Tour

18:00-20:00         – Dinner at MPI and closing discussion

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