During the summer semester of 2020/2021 Chemistry Department had a pleasure to host Mr Khodor NASSER, a doctoral student from University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. He came through the Erasmus+ exchange programme with his scholarship funded by EC. His research fees were on the other hand covered by the LubriCAD project as the subject of his doctoral thesis is also lubricants. Mr Nasser is in fact a mechanical engineer studying the potential of the nanomaterials and ionic liquids as additives in lubricants which is an excellent subject match with the LubriCAD project. Significant experimental results were obtained through this fruitful multidisciplinary collaboration and the scientific paper is in preparation. For the Chemistry Department it was once again the pleasure to host excellent international student and introduce him to the developing industry and some of the large industrial complexes in our country. Mr Nasser visited the iron mine of ArcellorMital Prijedor in Omarska, the “Destilacija” company in Teslić, the “Tehnosint” company in Laktaši (partner of the project). He also presented parts of his doctoral thesis results at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering where he was officially enrolled as the exchange PhD students and professors from this Faculty also have overseen his work. At the same time teachers from the Faculty of Mining also hosted him and introduced him in mining industry needs for lubricants as well as about the status of the mining industry in Europe and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since this young researcher is originally from Lebanon, having him in the laboratory was also an opportunity for students and staff at the Chemistry Department to learn more about this country and its cultural heritage.
Chemistry Department wishes Mr Nasser a success in his continuation of his research and future expert work, especially for his upcoming PhD thesis defence.
Links:
https://www.vladars.net/sr-SP-Cyrl/Vlada/Ministarstva/mnk/Pages/default.aspx
https://pmf.unibl.org/lubricad/
https://prijedor.arcelormittal.com/sr-latn-ba