CURRICULUM VITAE
Name Dr Zeyad Alwahabi
School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Education
 PhD (Chemical Physics), The University of Sussex, Brighton, England, 1991
 BSc (Physics), Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq, 1985.
Employment
Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2003Present
Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia, 1997-2003
Research Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia, 19921997
Publications
Total of 76 peer-reviewed publications (35 journal papers and 41 peer reviewed conference papers),
with 297 citations times and h-index of 9. In the last 5 years, 26 publications (16 journal papers and
20 peer reviewed conference papers), in the area of laser diagnostics, in fluid mechanics and
combustion, Laser Spectroscopy, Infrared diagnostics and Energy transfer. 2 invited keynote
presentations, and several consultancy reports.
Ten significant publications (2004- present):
[1] Z. T. Alwahabi, J. Zetterberg, Z. T. Li, M Aldén: Vibrational Relazation of CO2(1201) by
argon. Chemical Physics (2009) 359, 71.
[2] P. R. Medwell, Q. N. Chan, P. A. M. Kalt, Z. T. Alwahabi, B. Dally, G. J. Nathan,
Development of temperature imaging using two-line atomic fluorescence. Applied Optics
(2009) 48, 1237.
[3] P. J. van Eyk, P.J. Ashman Z.T. Alwahabi and G.J. Nathan, Simultaneous measurements of
the release of atomic sodium, particle diameter and particle temperature for a single burning
coal particle, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2009) 31, 2099.
[4] P. J. van Eyk, P.J. Ashman Z.T. Alwahabi and G.J. Nathan "Quantitative measurement of
atomic sodium in the plume of a single burning coal particle", Combustion and Flame,
(2008) 155, 529-537.
[5] Z. T. Alwahabi, J. Zetterberg, Z.S. Li, M Alden: High resolution polarization spectroscopy
and laser induced fluorescence of CO2 around 2 mu m. European Physical Journal (2007) D
42, 41.
[6] Lucas, Z. T. Alwahabi, V. Linton, K. Meeuwissen: Laser diagnostics of welding plasma by
polarization spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy (2007) 61, 565.
[7] Z. T. Alwahabi, J. Zetterberg, Z.S. Li, M. Alden: Measurements of collisional broadening
coefficients by infrared polarization spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy (2007) 61, 424.
[8] G.J. Nathan, J Mi, Z.T. Alwahabi, GJR Newbold, DS Nobes: Impacts of a jet's exit flow
pattern on mixing and combustion performance. Progress in Energy and Combustion
Science (2006) 32, 496-538.
[9] N.H. Qamar, GJ Nathan, Z. T. Alwahabi, K.D. King: The effect of global mixing on soot
volume fraction: measurements in simple jet, precessing jet, and bluff body flames.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (2005) 30, 1493.
[10] Z.S. Li, M Rupinski, J. Zetterberg, Z.T. Alwahabi, M. Alden: Mid-infrared polarization
spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules: Detection of nascent CO2 and H2O in atmospheric
pressure flames. Chemical Physics Letters (2005) 407, 243.
Recent research grants
LIEF: Moghtaderi, Evans, Haynes, Masri, King, Alwahabi, Liow, He, Galvin, Dlugogorski,
Kennedy, and Djenidi, "An Integrated Multi-Node Microfluidics Facility", LE0775649 (2007:
$400,000); Masri; Nathan; Moghtaderi; Langrish; Dally; King; and Alwahabi, "A Laser Facility for
Imaging the Time Evolution of Scalars in Turbulent Flows", LE0883111 (2008: $570,000). A
National T-ray Facility, Abbott et al, LE0560716 (2005: $850,000),