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Academic Background

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry (99-'03), Professor Vicki H. Grassian, Chemistry Department, The University of Iowa
B.S. (Honors) Chemistry (95-99), United Arab Emirates University

Employment History:

Associated Graduate Faculty, Chemistry Department, University of Guelph ('07-'10)
Adjunct Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Waterloo ('05-current)
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Wilfrid Laurier University ('05-'10)

Postdoctoral work, 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:

• American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund Award (2009) 
• 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)

Selected Publications:

Adrian Adamescu, Holly Gray, Katherine Stewart, Ian Hamilton, and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.  "Trends in the frequencies of v(AsOxHx-1) [x = 2-4] in selected As(V)-containing compounds investigated using quantum chemical calculations".  Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2010, 88, 65-77.

Scott Cowen and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.  "DRIFTS studies on the photodegradation of tannic acid as a model for HULIS in atmospheric aerosols".  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009, 11(3), 7838-7847 (in the Special Issue of Physical Chemistry of Aerosols)

Matthew Chabot, Tuan Hoang, and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.  "ATR-FTIR Studies on the Nature of Surface Complexes and Desorption Efficiency of p-Arsanilic Acid on Iron (Oxyhydr)oxides".  Environmental Science and Technology, 2009, 43 (9), pp 3142–3147.

Scott Cowen, Megha Duggal, Tuan Hoang, and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.   "Vibrational Spectroscopic Characterization of Some Environmentally-Important Organoarsenicals: A Guide for Understanding the Nature of their Surface Complexes".  Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2008, 86(10), 942-950.

Sarah DePalma, Scott Cowen, Tuan Hoang, and Hind A. Al-Abadleh.  "Adsorption Thermodynamics of p-Arsanilic Acid on Iron (oxyhydr)Oxides: In-situ ATR-FTIR Studies".  Environmental Science and Technology, 2008, 42, 1922-1927.  First paper out of my lab at Laurier!

Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Amanda L. Mifflin, Paul A. Bertin, SonBinh T. Nguyen, and Franz M. Geiger. “Control of Carboxylic Acid and Ester Groups on Chromium (VI) Binding to Functionalized Fused Silica/Water Interfaces Studied by Second Harmonic Generation” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2005, 109, 9609-9702. Check out the news coverage of this paper in C&EN and Science Magazine.

Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Vicki H. Grassian. "Oxide Surfaces as Environmental Interfaces" Surface Science Reports, 2003, 52, 63-161.  Ranked one of the  "Top 25 Hottest Articles" in Surface Science Reports from  2004-2007.

Al-Abadleh; H. A. and V. H. Grassian "Heterogeneous Reaction of NO₂ on Hexane Soot: A Knudsen Cell and FT-IR Study" Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2000, 104, 11926-11933.  My first paper at the end of my first year as a graduate student.

Complete publications list


Memberships:

• 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