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Dr. Hassan Said Bazzi
Associate Dean for External Affairs, Head of the Division of Science, Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Hassan Said Bazzi
Associate Dean for External Affairs, Head of the Division of Science, Professor of Chemistry
Educational Qualifications
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PhD with Dean’s Honor List
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Biography
Dr. Hassan S. Bazzi is the Associate Dean for External Affairs, Head of the Division of Science, and Professor of Chemistry at the College of Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of both the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr. Bazzi completed the Management Development Program and the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Bazzi worked at Texas A&M University at Qatar for over 20 years, where he helped establish and manage the Qatar campus. He was the longest-serving faculty administrator at Texas A&M at Qatar, maintaining continuous tenure in leadership roles between 2006 and 2024. Throughout his career, he assumed various administrative roles, ranging from Chair of Academic Programs to multiple Assistant, Associate, and Senior Associate Dean positions. He possesses substantial expertise in leading and overseeing higher education institutions in an international setting.
Dr. Bazzi is the author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 150 conference presentations. His research interests include metathesis chemistry for small molecule and polymer synthesis, polymer-supported catalysis, DNA-mimetic polymers, and fluorous analogs of ruthenium-based catalysts.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Montreal, Canada
2004
PhD with Dean’s Honor List
McGill University, Canada
2003
MSc in Chemistry
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
1998
BSc in Chemistry
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
1996
- Catalysis
- Olefin metathesis
- Polymer synthesis
- Organic synthesis
Associate Dean for External Affairs, Head of the Division of Science, Professor of Chemistry
College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Senior Associate Dean for Advancement & Industry Engagement
Texas A&M University at Qatar
2023 - 2024
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Advancement
Texas A&M University at Qatar
2021 - 2023
Associate Dean for Research and Advancement
Texas A&M University at Qatar
2017 - 2021
Professor of Chemistry
Texas A&M University at Qatar
2014 - 2024
Podiyanachari, S., Barlog, M., Al-Hashimi, M., & Bazzi, H. S. (2024). Bridging of poly(acetylenes) and PEG-modified poly(olefins) through ring-opening metathesis copolymerization (ROMCP). Polymer Chemistry, 15, 2318–2327.
Gandra, U. R., Podiyanachari, S. K., Bazzi, H. S., & Al-Hashimi, M. (2023). Recent advances in drug release, sensing, and cellular uptake of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP)-derived poly(olefins). ACS Omega, 8(2), 1724–1738.
Gandra, U. R., Courjaret, R., Machaca, K., Al-Hashimi, M., & Bazzi, H. S. (2020). Multifunctional rhodamine B appended ROMP-derived fluorescent probe detects Al3+ and selectively labels lysosomes in live cells. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 19159.
Kulai, I., Karpus, A., Bergbreiter, D. E., Al-Hashimi, M., & Bazzi, H. S. (2020). Organocatalytic Michael addition as a method for polyisobutylene chain-end functionalization. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 41(17), 2000382.
Podiyanachari, S. K., Moncho, S., Brothers, E. N., Al-Meer, S., Al-Hashimi, M., & Bazzi, H. S. (2020). One-pot tandem ring-opening and ring-closing metathesis polymerization of disubstituted cyclopentenes featuring a terminal alkyne functionality. Macromolecules, 53(11), 4330–4337.
- 2019; Fellow of the American Chemical Society
- 2018; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2018; Dean’s Leadership Excellence Award, Texas A&M University at Qatar
- 2014; Dean’s Achievement Award, Texas A&M University at Qatar
- 2003; Shield of the President of Lebanon, Presidential Palace, Lebanon