Employment History:

Visiting Professor in the lab of Professor D. James Donaldson, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto (2011) 

Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, Wilfrid Laurier University ('10-current)

Adjunct Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Waterloo ('05-current)

Associated Graduate Faculty, Chemistry Department, University of Guelph ('07-'10)

Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Wilfrid Laurier University ('05-'10)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Professor Franz Geiger, Chemistry Department, Northwestern University ('03-'05)

Research Interests:
Physical chemistry of environmental interfaces commonly found in atmospheric and soil environments using mainly infrared spectroscopy and other surface sensitive techqniques. Click here for more on our ongoing research projects. 

Awards and Recognitions:

• WLU Faculty Association Merit Award (2012)
• Certificate of Appreciation from the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the ACS (2012) 
• Certificate of Appreciation from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications (2012) 
• Early Researcher Award by Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation (2011-2016) 
• American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund Award (2009-2012) 
• Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2008)
• Best Poster Award from the Canadian Light Source while attending the second Synchrotron Summer School (Aug. 20-24, 2007)
• Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award (2007)
• Leaders Opportunity Fund Award from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (2006)
• University of Iowa DC Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering and University of Iowa nominee for the 2004 national competition for the Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Dissertation Prize (2004)
• NSERC Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories (deferred, 2003)
• National Award for Honour Students at the U.A.E. University from Her Highness Fatma Bint Mubarak (Wife of the late President of the United Arab Emirates) (1999)

Recent Publications:

Derek Arts, Md Abdus Sabur, and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.  Surface Interactions of Aromatic Organoarsenical Compounds with Hematite Nanoparticles using ATR-FTIR: Kinetic Studies.Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013, 117, 2195-2204.

Julia Tofan-Lazar and Hind A. Al-Abadleh. Kinetic ATR-FTIR Studies on Phosphate Adsorption on Iron-(oxyhydr)oxides in the Absence and Presence of Surface Arsenic: Molecular-level Insights into the Ligand Exchange Mechanism. Journal of Physical Chemistry A,2012, 116(41), 10143-10149.

Julia Tofan-Lazar and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.  "ATR-FTIR Studies on the Adsorption/Desorption Kinetics of Dimethylarsinic Acid on Iron-(oxyhydr)oxides", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012, 116(6), 1596-1604.

Complete publications list


Memberships

• Laurier Centre for Women in Science (Associate Director)
• NanoOntario (Member of the Board of Directors)
• Nanoscience at Laurier (Managing Member)
• Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (Associate Member)
• E-Journal of Chemistry (Member of the Editorial Board)
• ISRN Physical Chemistry (Member of the Editorial Board) 
• American Nano Society (ANS)
• Laurier Institute of Water Science (LIWS)
• Waterloo Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (WCAS)
• Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation 
• Canadian Geophysical Union
• American Geophysical Union
• Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
• Canadian Society for Chemistry
• American Chemical Society

Mailing Address:

Chemistry Department
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada