Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lecturer in Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Gases
• Lecturer in Numerical Methods in Nuclear Engineering

Qualifications

• PhD, Nuclear Engineering, UCLA, USA 1993
• MSc, Nuclear Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt 1988
• BSc, Nuclear Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt 1985

Research Interests

• Fusion reactor technology
• Thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors
• Thermal, mechanical and nuclear performance of fusion blankets

Current Work

• Thermal behavior of ITER blanket/first wall
• Using Artificial neural network to predict behavior of fusion reactor systems

Selected Publications

• A. Badawi, Determination of the order of surface reactions in Li2O, Fusion Design and Engineering, 93(2008), 125 – 132
• Nader M.A. Mohamed, M. Abou Mandour, M.K. Shaat and Alya A. Badawi, Evaluation of the efficiency of gamma spectrometers for analysis environmental samples with unknown elemental composition, J. Nuclear Technology, 153(3) (2006) 360-384
• M.A. Mandour, M.K. Shaat, A.A. Badawi, T. Mongy and Nader M.A. Mahamed, Removal of scattered thermal neutrons using antiscatter grid, Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research A, 568 (2006), 810-815
• M. Abou Mandour, M.K. Shaat, A.A. Badawi, T. Mongy and Nader M.A. Mohamed, Imaging enhancement by scattered neutrons deblurring in ETRR-2 neutron radiography facility of Egypt using multilayer converter screen technique, Presented in the Fourth AFNDT Conference and Exhibition, Feb. 11-13, Cairo, Egypt (2006)
• A. Badawi, A.R. Raffray and M. A. Abdou, Modeling and Analysis of Time-Dependent Tritium Transport in Lithium Oxide, J. Nucl. Mater., 273 (1999) 79-94