Ahmed Biby
Graduate Student • Musgrave Group
ahmed.biby@colorado.edu

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering with Energy & Renewable Energy Concentration, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2016
  • Master of Science in Nanotechnology, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, 2020

Research Interests

Computational materials science for sustainable technologies and quantum materials.

Personal Interests

For Ahmed, the practicality of accessing the computational research resources anytime from anywhere is a priceless perk of being a computational materials science researcher. Aside from the geeky in-silico adventures, Ahmed enjoys natural sightseeing, especially mountains and water bodies, with his family. In Boulder, Ahmed adores commuting on bike, where the Flatirons are everywhere.

Awards and Fellowships

  • Academic Honor for outstanding academic achievement, The American University in Cairo, 2020.
  • Al Ghurair STEM Scholarship, Al Ghurair Foundation, 2018.
  • Laboratory Instruction Fellowship, The American University in Cairo, 2017.
  • Experiment e.v summer school, Bonn, The German federal ministry for economic cooperation and development (bmz), 2013.

Selected Publications

  1. Ahmed H. Biby, S. A. Tolba, N. K Allam “Unveiling the role of carbon defects in the exceptional narrowing of m-ZrO2 wide-bandgap for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting performance” International Journal of Hydrogen energy, 2021, 46, 41, 21499-21511.
  2. Ahmed H. Biby, Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam “The interplay of quantum capacitance with Van der Waals forces, intercalation, co-intercalation, and the number of MoS2 layers”, Materials Today Energy, 2021, 20, 100677.
  3. Amina Saleh, Nashaat Ahmed, Ahmed H. Biby, Nageh K. Allam “Supercapattery Electrode Materials by Design: Plasma-induced Defect Engineering of Bimetallic Oxyphosphides for Energy Storage”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021, 603, 478-490.
  4. Ahmed H. Biby, Basant A. Ali, and Nageh K. Allam “Rb Intercalation Extraordinarily Enhances the Electrochemical Capacitance Performance of 2D- based Electrode Materials”, Materials Advances, 2021, 2, 5052 5056.
  5. K. M. Gameel, I. M. Sharafeldin, A. U. Abourayya, Ahmed H. Biby, N. K. Allam “Unveiling CO adsorption on Cu surfaces: new insights from molecular orbital principles” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2018 20, 40, 25892-25900.