Pollution Control

Yehya Elsayed is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). In 2006, he received his PhD in Chemistry from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Immediately after graduation, he joined Donaldson Company as a Senior Scientist where he was responsible for the development of new filtration technologies for environmental, industrial and medical applications. He joined AUS in 2009. His recent work is focused on the development of new adsorbents using local raw and waste materials. Moreover, he is involved in the chemical identification and health assessment of harmful compounds in the smoke generated from hookah, midwakh, and Arabian incense. In 2015, he received a joint grant from General. Electric directed toward dust profiling and analysis near GCC airports. He has co-authorship of several patent applications, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference proceedings.