Saad Abid Dahlawi

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Personal Details

Saad Abid Dahlawi

Dept. of Environmental Health College of Applied Medical Sciences

University of Dammam

Education & Qualification:

v Feb 2013: PhD Degree in Environmental Chemistry – University of Aberdeen v Mar 2012: Associate Fellowship - BHEA

v Sep 2008- Oct 2008: MSc in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK.

v Apr 2007 –Sep 2007: Intensive Academic English Language course, University of East Anglia, UK.

v Sep 1999 – July 2003: BSc in Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.

Work experience:

v Sept 2014- Present: Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology – Dammam

University, Saudi Arabia

v May 2011-Aug 2011: Co-Supervisor for MSc student during his graduation project.

v Sep 2009 – Dec 2010: Academic demonstrator- University of Aberdeen.

v Oct 2005- Feb 2014: Lecturer – Dammam University

v Sep 2004- Oct 2005: Medical Technologist, KAU Hospital, Saudi Arabia

v Aug 2003- Jul 2004: Internship year in medical laboratories of NGH, Saudi Arabia.

Research interests:

Ø My principle research interest is about remediation technologies of soils contaminated with heavy metals using Calcium Polysulfides.

Ø Toxicology: Risk assessment strategies for toxicological effects of heavy metals Ø Toxicological verification of the treated soil and solutions using lux-based biosensors.

Ø My MSc dissertation project was about waste auditing and its minimisation opportunities.

Ø The undergraduate dissertation project was about detection and quantification of chromosomal translocation, t(9;22) (BCR-ABL), in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia. I used different techniques such as PCR & RT- PCR for extraction.

Conferences, Presentations and Workshops Attended:

Ø Oral Presentation, ICCE 2011 –Zurich, Switzerland Sep 2011 Ø Poster presentation, SGM- Nottingham University, Sep 2010.

Ø Presentation and poster, SETAC London 2010 - Environmental Pollution in a changing world.

Ø Environmental Risk Assessment Workshop, SETAC -London, Sep 2011.

Ø I will present a poster in the 2^nd International Conference on Bio sensing Technology, Oct 2011- Amsterdam

Scientific Memberships:

Ø Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Student member (SETAC).

Ø Royal Society of Chemistry, Associate member (RSC) Ø Society of General Microbiology, Associate member (SGM).

Ø Chartered Institution of Waste Management, Student member (CIWM).