Dr Al Qubeissi is Associate Professor of Thermofluids, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Universities Internal Combustion Engine Group (UnICEG), a member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG) – Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME), a Community Buddy of the British Science Association, Review Editor in Thermal Science and Energy Systems, Associate Editor of Alexandria Engineering Journal, and Course Director of MSc Renewable Energy Engineering at Coventry University (CU).

Dr Al Qubeissi's latest PhD study was based on modelling of pre-combustion processes, including multicomponent and blended fuel droplets, conducted at the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories, Advanced Engineering Centre, University of Brighton (2012-2015). Prior to that, he conducted PhD work on CFD development of conjugate heat transfer model for the rotating discs-cavities of gas turbine engines at the Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre, Sussex University (2007 - 2012) in which Dr Al Qubeissi developed a new CFD approach (coded in FORTRAN) for the high-speed CHT system.

Dr Al Qubeissi is experienced in computational thermo-fluid systems. His main relevant research experience includes the development of mathematical models for processes preceding/exceeding the onset of combustion (atomization, sprays, heating, evaporation and ignition of multi-component and blended fuels) and other broad range of engineering applications (e.g. IC engines, PV/T systems, Battery thermal management, Thermal fatigue, Gas-turbine engines). His research efforts have been disseminated via more than 110 research outputs in internationally refereed journal articles, conference proceedings and monographs. Since starting his career at CU in 2015, Dr Al Qubeissi has been involved in project supervision of more than 100 UG/PG students, and 6 PhD/DSc projects. Prior to that, he was a Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Brighton, UK, and a research participant in the INTERREG E3C3 project (€3.5 million).

Main roles and activities

• Module leader, Fluids and Heat Transfer (Level 6), Extended Fluids and Heat Transfer (Level 7), BioEnergy Engineering (Level 7), and MEng Individual Projects (Level 7).
  
• Course Director, MSc Renewable Energy Engineering.
• Academic Examiner/Validator, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering - University of Derby; School of Engineering and Computer Science - University of Hertfordshire; and Department of Mechanical and Energy Systems Engineering, University of Bradford; MSc in Mechanical Engineering at School of Mechanical Engineering, Aston University.
• External PhD Examiner, Universities of Aston, Brunel, and Imperial College - London.
• Associate Editor, Alexandria Engineering Journal.
• Guest Editor, Energies SI: Biodiesel fuel combustion (Oct 2020 - Apr 2022), and Energies SI: Thermal and Alternative Propulsion Systems (Oct 2021 - Sep 2022).
• PhD Director of Studies and co-supervisor, 5 PhD completions (up to Sep 2021).
• Designated Proposal Reviewer, EPSRC, BC Newton funding proposals, Royal Society of Engineering.
• Reviewer for many high impact journals, including Fuel, Energy & Fuels, ACS Omega, Applied Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Nature: Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Royal Society: A, Energies, and International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow.
• Chairing/co-organising conferences and workshops: ICSMET, IMDC-IST, UKFluids Network SIG, FCD'19.

Projects and fundings

• Coordinator of E+ Key Action 107 2020, with €20,156k funding, Grant Ref No. 2020-1-UK01-KA107-078517 (Aug 2020 - July 2023).
• Coordinator of a CU funded research project, entitled "Blended fuel droplet heating evaporation and ignition", with £90k funding value in the form of a PhD studentship (Feb 2017 - Sep 2020).
• Co-I and Chair of GCRF project, titled Low cost filtered drinking water in the areas of struggle in Pakistan, in an Innovate UK funded programme of 'GCRF demonstrate impact in meeting the sustainable development goals: phase 1', value £59.8k (April 2020 - Jan 2021).
• Coordinator of E+ Key Action 107, 2018, International Credit Mobility with £49k funding, Grant Ref No. 2018-1-UK01-KA107-047386 (Aug 2018 - Jul 2021).
• Joint winner of an ECR funding on 'Hydrogen Production and storage' project, 2017-2019. An in-house built testing facility for the development of an on-board hydrogen delivery system, with £59k funding. Grant Ref. ECR201617.
• Coordinator of E+ KA107 Round 2 2016 Grant, 2017. The HE mobility between Programme and Partner Countries, International Credit Mobility, Ref No. 2016-2-UK01-KA107-034987 (Feb 2017 - Jul 2019.
• 2010 Award winner, by UNLTD, as a social entrepreneur for establishing a community development project 'NETWORKING', in which ethnic minorities were successfully encouraged to integrate into society and enrol into higher education.
• Recipient of UK-CARA Research Award with a value of £8.7k for his doctoral research project 'Development of a conjugate heat transfer solver,' 2011.
• Participant in Energy Efficiency and Environment: a Cross-Channel Cluster (E3C3) with €3.5m funding (March 2013 - March 2015). 

Research topics: Fuel blends; CFD modelling; Heating & Evaporation; Conjugate heat transfer.

Engineering applications: Gas turbines; ICE; PV/T; EV BTMS.

1. Dr Raguram Nagarajan

Project title: Advanced turbulent combustion modelling of stationary gas-turbines with alternative gaseous fuels (19/09/2016 → 30/01/2021).

2. Dr Nawar H.I. Al-Esawi

Project title: Blended Fuel Droplets Heating, Evaporation and Ignition (16/01/2017 → 30/07/2020).

3. Dr Alisson V.B. Lopes

Project title: Advanced Modelling of Turbulent Spray Flames In Aero Gas-Turbines with Liquid Bio-Fuels (8/05/2017 → 01/11/2021).

4. Dr Dmytro Beherskyi* (D.Sc.)

 *Co-supervised for the duration of a joint project with Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Ukraine.

Project title: A new approach for battery thermal management in extreme conditions (Defended in 2020, Ukraine).

5. Dr Moustafa Al-Damook^*

*A co-supervised project conducted at the University of Leeds.

Project title: Performance Analysis of Air-Cooled Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems (01/01/2016 – 19/07/2019).