Ghassan Jabbour

Biography

 Professor Jabbour is Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was the Founding Director of the Solar and Photovolatic Engineering Center, Named Professor of Materials Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAUST. Dr. Jabbour was one of the founding PIs for the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of Flexible and Organic Electronics Development at FDC, Director of Advanced Photovoltaics Center (ASU), and a Professor of the School of Materials (ASU). Prof. Jabbour has had many distinguished honors and awards including: 1) SPIE Fellow (youngest fellow the year of the award), 2) Fellow of European Optical Society, 3) Distinguished Professor of Finland-Academy of Finland, 4) Al-Rawabi Endowed Research Chair Professor (only one at KAUST at the time), 5) Numerous keynote, plenary, seminars, and invited talks (more than 550) at national and international scientific conferences and universities, roadmap meetings and workshops, 6) Invited to attend the dinner for the Millennium Award Ceremony (2010 and 2012) in Helsinki, Finland, 7) An MRS Symposium X speaker, and a Keynote Speaker (total 4) at the Grand Challenges of Photonics-EOS Annual Meeting, 2010-Paris, 8) Best Poster (2 posters) Award at the USA National Academy of Engineering 2006/the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 9) one of four professors from the western world invited to the prestigious Nature Photonics (Solar Cells Session) sponsored Technology Conference in Japan (2010), and 10) A Guest Editor of MRS Bulletin on Organic Photovoltaics (2005). Moreover, Prof. Jabbour was the only academic invited to speak at the United States of America’s 2006 Senate Science and Technology Caucus on Advancing Energy Efficiency. Professor Jabbour has been the Chair/Co-Chair/Committee Member/Session Chair of more than 250 leading conferences. His research and development advances have been highlighted in numerous international journals, magazines and newspapers, including Chemical and Engineering News, Angewandte Chemie, Nature, Nature Photonics, Science, Scientific Reports (Nature), IEEE, Advanced Materials, MIT Technology Review, MRS Bulletin, USA Today, PC Magazine, LA Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Financial Times London, NSF website on "Technological Challenges for Flexible, Light-weight, Low-cost Scalable Electronics and Photonics", and NSF 2005 Year of Physics, to mention a few. For his research, Prof. Jabbour raised more than $250 million over the last 14 years as a PI, CoPI and/or collaborator. Prof. Jabbour is an Editor of the Light: Science & Applications (Nature Publishing Group), an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Display Technology, and Guest Editor for Nanotechnology (IoP) on 3D printing special issue.

Research Interest

 Material Science