Dr. Nagy Torad is currently a Research Scientist at the Department of Chemistry at Khalifa University. He worked as a Research Scientist at the Advanced Materials Chemistry Center and the Center for Catalysis and Separations at Khalifa University. Prior to joining Khalifa University, he served as an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at Tanta University, Egypt. After completing his M.Sc. degree in physical chemistry (2010) from Tanta University, Egypt, he then moved to Japan for his Ph.D. to work with Professor Yusuke Yamauchi at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, as a junior researcher in 2011, and Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, where he received his PhD in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in 2014. Following his PhD, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at Tanta University, Egypt, in 2014.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Torad worked as a Researcher at the Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonic Project (ERATO), NIMS, Japan from 2021-2023, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Researcher at NIMS (2014, and 2018-2021) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (2017-2019), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) China (2019-2021), and A Research Academic of the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia (20219-2021), and a Visiting Researcher of the University of Milan and the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy, in 2017.
Dr. Torad serves as a youth editorial board member of Chinese Chemical Letters (Elsevier), a guest editor of “Nanomaterials for Eco-Sustainable Catalysis”, Catalysts, MDPI, and an editorial assistant, on behalf of Prof. Yusuke Yamauchi’s office, and Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier). His papers have been listed as Highly Cited Papers in the Top 1% of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Physics fields (Web of Science). Dr. Torad has been selected among the world’s Top 2% of Scientists by Elsevier B.V. and Stanford University from 2017 to 2021.
Dr. Torad has extensive multidisciplinary research experience, with expertise in the design and development (R&D) of novel, scalable strategies for the synthesis of PCPs, COFs, CMPs, mesoporous MOFs, and MOF-derived nanoporous carbon architectures with controlled composition and morphology for nanocatalysis, CO2 capture/separation and utilization, gas capture, sensing, and wastewater treatment. His interests also include the design of a nanosensor using nanoporous materials with novel nanoarchitectures for interfacial mass-sensing techniques, and the application of various coating techniques for ultra-sensitive environmental monitoring at the nanogram range.
