Feras Rabie, PhD

E-mail address: acww5v@r.postjobfree.com Cell

Phone: 1-832-***-****

Nationality: American

EDUCATION

. Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, January

2014

Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization, Membrane Fabrication and

Gas Transport Behaviors of Liquid Crystalline Materials.

. Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech

University, Blacksburg, VA, Spring 2012

. Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, University of Houston-

Main Campus, Houston, TX, Fall 2007

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Associate, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (January 2016 -

July 2016)

. Synthesize and fabricate composite films comprised of liquid crystals

and functionalized grapheme sheets.

. Fabricate and characterize films based on the exfoliation of grapheme

platelets by dispergation in polymer matrices.

. Measure and evaluate the gas permeation properties of the fabricated

films.

Product Development Engineer, American Ingenuity, Houston, TX (January 2014

- December 2015)

. Established a laboratory for the testing and manufacturing of

proprietary E-liquid

. Developed different formulations of the product

. Developed an extraction process to extract the flavors from tobacco

leaves and coffee beans

. Developed a system for the large scale production of E-liquid for

commercial purposes

. Hired and trained marketing personnel for the promotion of the new

product

Metallurgy Scientist, Tetra Technologies, Woodlands, TX, (May 07 -

September 07)

. Appointed as head metallurgy coordinator and researcher for the SCC

(Stress Corrosion Cracking) project.

. Designed and developed a new optimized system for the testing of metal

alloy integrity to corrosive conditions. New design increased

measurement accuracy by 40%.

. Modeled new system using Daisy Lab to ensure measurements properly

correlate to material responses to various environments.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, (Spring 2008-

January 2014)

. Built a membrane separation pilot plant that determines both single

and mixed gas permeation and measures transient transport regions for

solubility and diffusivity determination.

. Modeled and automated permeation pilot plant components by integrating

several process control instrumentation with LabView software.

. Developed and characterized a two-phase liquid crystal/polymer system

(polymer dispersed liquid crystal membranes, PDLCM) for paraffin and

olefin separations.

. Synthesized and characterized novel "comb-like" co-polymer acrylate

liquid crystals that are easily varied for specific gas transport

applications.

. Fabricated membranes using linear polymer liquid crystal material that

lead to the realization of deviation from conventional liquid crystal

gas separation.

. Prepared polymer liquid crystals via radical addition of LC thiols

onto double bonds of diols and thermally characterized the polymers

that included a time-temperature superposition of their thermally

dependent rheological properties.

. Fabricated and characterized chiral liquid crystals membranes, which

lead to the development of an enantiomeric selective membrane using

chiral liquid crystals.

. Fabricated the first cross-linked liquid crystal polyacrylate membrane

where all other research resorted to linear polymers.

. Discovered a dual gas permeation mechanism for liquid crystal

polymers.

. Purified, cut, functionalized CNTs and tested their single gas

sorption and permeation, which lead to the development of oriented CNT

membranes.

. Lead a team of undergraduate researchers to investigate the fluid

dynamic fundamentals of polymer extrusion processes.

. Used solid-phase peptide synthesis to functionalize aluminum oxide

surfaces.

. Managed a team of undergraduate researchers to study enantiomeric

selectivity using an aluminum oxide membrane with covalently bonded

peptide sequences.

. Managed several teams of undergraduate researchers to assist with

membrane fabrication and gas transport projects.

. Instructed Unit Operations lab courses for 7 summers.

. Frequent substitute lecturer for Fluid Dynamics. Teaching assistant

for Kinetics, Heat Transport and Fluid Dynamics courses.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

. Modeling Techniques: Aspen Plus, Aspen Dynamics, Daisy Lab, Lab View,

and Polymath

. Membrane Transport: Strong fundamentals on constituent transport

through media; Gas Sorption Analysis (GSA); Gas and Liquid Membrane

Permeation

. Microscopy: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM); Transmission Electron

Microscope (TEM); Polarized Optical Microscope with temperature

controllers (POM)

. Spectroscopy: Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR); Nuclear

Magnetic Resonance (NMR); Mass Spectroscopy (Mass Spec); UV-Vis

Spectrophotometer (UV-VIS) ; Elemental Analysis

. Thermal Analysis: Dynamic Scanning Calorimetry (DSC); Dynamic

Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA)

. Scattering: X-ray Diffraction (XRD); Dynamic and Static Light

Scattering (DSLC)

. Chromatography: Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC); Gel permeation

chromatography (GPC); Flame Ionized Detector (FID); Gas Chromatography

(GC); Liquid Chromatography (LC)

. Biological Techniques: Microwave Peptide Synthesizer; MTT assay; Cell

Culture; Gel Electrophoresis

. Synthetic and Processing Techniques: Experienced in many polymer

synthetic, polymerization and purification techniques and polymer

extrusion.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Rabie, F.; Polakova, L.; Sedlakova, Z.; Marand, E.; Martin, S.;

"Temperature-Dependenct Gas Transport Properties of Cross-linked

Liquid Crystalline Polyacrylate Membranes", manuscript submitted to

Polymer

2. Rabie, F.; Martin, S.; Sedlakova, Z.; Marand, E.; Polakova, L.;

"(Meth)acrylate Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Membrane

Applications", J. Poly. Sci., Vol. 132 (43), 2015

3. Polakova, L.; Rabie, F.; "Dynamic mechanical and thermal behavior of

novel liquid-crystalline polybutadiene-diols with azobenzene groups in

side chains", J. Rheol., Vol. 57 (5), 1297, 2013

4. Han, S.; Rabie, F.; Marand, E.; Martin, S., "Enantioselective

Separations Using Chiral Supported Liquid Crystalline Membranes",

Chirality, Vol. 24 (7), 519, 2012

5. Surapathi, A.; Herrera, J.; Rabie, F.; Martin, S.; Marand, E.,

"Fabrication and Gas Transport Properties of SWNT/Polyacrylic

Nanocomposite Membranes", Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 375 (1-2),

150, 2011

6. Rabie, F.; Marand, E.; Martin, S., "Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

Membranes For Vapor Phase Separation", Proceedings of the 239th ACS

Conference Division of Fuel Chemistry, ACS Spring National Meeting,

San Fransisco, California, March 2010

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

1. Rabie, F.; Martin, S., "Gas Separation in Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal

Polymer Membranes", AICHE 2014 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

2. Rabie, F.; Marand, E.; Martin, S., "Polymer Dispersed Thermotropic

Liquid Crystal Membranes For Vapor Phase Separation", presented at the

ChEGSA 2010 Annual Meeting, Blacksburg,VA

3. Rabie, F.; Marand, E.; Martin, S., "Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer

Membranes for Paraffin/Olefin Separations", presented at the NAMS/ICM

2010 Conference, Washington, D.C.

4. Rabie, F.; Marand, E.; Martin, S., "Polymer Dispersed Thermotropic

Liquid Crystal Membranes For Vapor Phase Separations", presented at

the 239th ACS Conference Division of Fuel Chemistry, ACS Spring

National Meeting, San Fransisco, California, March 2010

5. Rabie, F.; Marand, E.; Martin, S., "Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

Polymer Membranes for Paraffin/Olefin Separation", presented at the

ChEGSA 2009 Annual Meeting, Blacksburg, VA

SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS/ACTIVITIES

. College of Engineering Davenport Graduate Fellowship

. Pratt Travel Award

. NAMS Travel Award

. National Science and Foundation, REU Award

. Blacksburg Fire Department - Volunteer

REFERENCES

. Dr. Stephen Martin (advisor), acww5v@r.postjobfree.com, 540-***-****

. Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi (mentor), acww5v@r.postjobfree.com, 979-***-****

. Dr. Zdenka Sedlkov (comitte member), acww5v@r.postjobfree.com, +420-296-

809-111

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