Prof. Qahtan A. Abed

Qahtan A Abed is a Professor in Engineering Technical college-Najaf/ Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq. Where he has been a faculty member since 2005. From 2016 to 2019 he served as Department Chair. He currently Dean of the Al- Rumaitha Technical Institute.

He received a B.S. from University of Technology, Iraq (Military college of engineering) in 1999, and an M.S. from the University of Technology, Iraq in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering/ Renewable energy from the Politehnica University of Bucharest/ Romania in 2016.

His research interests lie in the Renewable energy areas. Specifically, his research focuses on the following areas: (1) Solar thermal collectors, (2) Solar air and water heating, (3) Simulation of solar collector applications, and (4) Photovoltaics thermal collector.

Abed has published one book chapters and more than 60 papers in scientific journals. He has served as associate/academic editor of several journals. He also reviewed many manuscripts for more than 40 journals. He has served on roughly 40 conference and workshop program committees.