Dr.Adel Harfoush

Name: Dr.Adel Harfoush Address: Atomic Energy Commission of Syria (A.E.C.S.), P.O.Box: 6091, Damascus Telephone1: +963-11-6111926/7 Telephone2: +963-11-6612422 Fax: +963-11-6112289 E-mail1: adeladelh@excite.com E-mail: harfoush@arabscientist.org

• Educational Background:
  
  1. Doctorat d'Etat (Ph.D.) in Chemistry, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, FRANCE, July 1981.
  2. Doctorat du 3eme Cycle in Chemistry, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, FRANCE, Juin 1978.
  3. Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) in Chemistry, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, FRANCE, Juin 1976.
  4. B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry, Damascus University, SYRIA, 1973.

• Experience:
  1. 1998 - nowadays : Head of Physical Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria.
  2. 1994 - 1998 : Head of Chemical Synthesis Division, Chemistry Department in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria.
  3. 1992 - 1994 : Translator and co-editor in the staff of the Journal Entitled AALAM AL-ZARRA (The World of the Atom), and Head of Information Section in The Atomic Energy Commission of Syria.
  4. 1988 - 1992 : Deputy Head of Microanalysis Division, Chemistry Department in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria.
  5. 1987 - 1988 : Deputy Head of Chemistry Department in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria.
  6. 1985 - 1988 : In Charge of Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Chemistry Department in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria.
  7. 1984 - 1985: Part-time Lecturer of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences in Damascus University, SYRIA.
  8. 1982 - 1983 : Part-time Lecturer of Spectroscopy at the Dental Faculty in Damascus University, SYRIA.
  9. 1976 - 1981: Part-time Supervisor of experimental works in General Diploma in Biology (chemical aspect) at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, FRANCE.
  10. 1979 - 1980 : Part-time lecturer in General Chemistry, University Institute for Technology, Strasbourg, FRANCE.
  11. 1978 - 1979 : Part-time Lecturer in Technology of Chemistry, University Institute for Technology, Strasbourg, FRANCE.
  12. 1970 - 1974: Full-time Teacher of Physics and Chemistry in the Secondary Schools, SYRIA.

• Executed External Activities:
  
  1. Grant offered by IAEA for eight months, in 1983, on "Analytical Chemistry (Mass Spectrometry)" at the Central Research Institute for Physics (KFKI), Budapest, HUNGARY.
  2. Grant offered by A.E.C.S. for one week, in 1983, on "Analytical Chemistry", ISPRA, ITALY.
  3. Grant offered by A.E.C.S. for two weeks, in 1986, on "Workshop in Maintenance of Mass Spectrometers", at BARC, Bombay, INDIA.
  4. Grant offered by A.E.C.S. for three weeks, in 1988, on Solid Samples Analysis, at KFKI, Budapest, HUNGARY.
  5. Grant offered by A.E.C.S. for one week, in 1998, " 12th International Conference on Organic Synthesis", Venezia, ITALY.
  6. Grant offered by The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for exchange programme, for three years (during which first visit to India of 10 weeks, starting from 15th November 2000) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, INDIA.
  7. Grant offered by The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for exchange programme, for three years (during which second visit to India of 4 months, starting from 12th November 2001) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, INDIA.
  8. Participating in UNESCO Regional Training Programme in Spectroscopy, 1st to 13th January 2001, Madras, INDIA.
  9. I joined several international conferences held outside Syria.

• Executed Internal Activities:
  
  1. Several tens of Scientific Demonstration Bulletin, Report on Scientific Bibliographic Study, Report on Scientific Field Study, Report on Scientific Laboratory Study and Final Report for Scientific Research were locally published in the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria from 1982 - 2001.
  2. Participation in a siminar on "International intellegent data banks and its effect on the activation of scientific research in the arabic word", Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, 21-22/5/2001.

• Awards:
  21st Century Award for Achievement, offered on 13th April 2001, by The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, ENGLAND.
  
• Publications,Communications:
  
  1. Reactions photoinduites et photoassistees des olefines en presence de metaux carbonyles du 6eme groupe dans CCl4. C. Tanielian, R. Kieffer and A. Harfouch Tetrahedron letters, 4589 (1977).
     
  2. Photocatalyse appliquee a la metathese dans le cas du systeme W(CO)6/CCl4/hv. Proprietes des precurseurs et role du solvant. C. Tanielian, R. Kieffer and A. Harfouch. J. of Molecular Catalysis, 10, 269 (1981).
     
  3. Group VI metal carbonyls photoassisted and photocatalyzed reaction of olefins in carbon tetrachloride medium. C. Tanielian, R. Kieffer and A. Harfouch. 13th Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Clearwater Beach, Florida, U.S.A., 4-7 January 1978, T.2.
     
  4. Photocatalyse appliquee a la metathese: caracteristiques des precurseurs dans le cas du systeme W(CO)6 /CCl4/h . A.Harfouch, R.Kieffer and C. Tanielian. Societe Chimique de France, Section de Strasbourg, 21 November (1979).
     
  5. Role de CCl4 dans la reaction de la metathese en presence du systeme W(CO)6/CCl4/h . A. Harfoush. 21st Science Week, Syria (1981).
     
  6. Addition de CCl4 aux olefines en presence de Cr(CO)6 et h.A. Harfoush. 22nd. Science Week, Syria (1982).
     
  7. The non-organic mass spectrometer and the use of laser in its technique. A. Harfoush. The World of the Atom, Syria, No. 7, 13 (1988).
     
  8. Calculation of the Melting Curves of some Alkali-halides with CsCl Structure and their Thermodynamic Properties along these Curves. S. Sh. Soulayman and A. Harfoush. Z. Naturforcsh. 44a, 513-518 (1989).
     
  9. Theoretical and experimental evaluation of the performance of built-in storage solar water heater. S. Sh. Soulayman and A. Harfoush. The Applied Optics in Solar Energy III, 2-6/Oct./1989, Braha ( Czechoslovalia).
     
  10. Transmittance, reflectance and absorptance of multi-plate planar window. S.Sh. Soulayman, Z. Nassif and A. Harfoush. Renewable Energy, Vol. 1, 211-217 (1991).
      
  11. Presparking Effect in Spark Source Mass Spectrometry. A. Harfoush and S. Sh. Soulayman. Z. Naturforcsh. 47a, 748-752 (1992).
      
  12. The Characterization and Effects of Syrian Kerosene on Uranium Extraction from Syrian Commercial Phosphoric Acid. A. Harfoush. Solvent Extraction Research and Development, Japan, Vol. 6, 12-23 (1999).
      
  13. Determination of Total Aromatics in Kerosene by UV Spectrometry. A. Harfoush and H. Shleiwit. Petroleum Chemistry, Vol. 39, N2, 111-113 (1999).
      
  14. The Use of Refractometry to Determine the Affinity Coefficient of Heavy Water to Light Water. A. Harfoush and B. Shahin. 5th Arabian Conference on Nuclear Scinces, Beirut - Libanon, 13 - 17 November (2000).
      
  15. Determination of D/H Ratio of some Locations in Syrian Natural Waters. A. Harfoush, Abdull W. Allaf and M. Alibrahim. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, Vol. 36, No. 1, 151-167 (2001).