Sahar T. Issa, Researcher

Name: Sahar T. Issa

Hamat – Batroun, Lebanon North

E-mail: sahar.issa@hotmail.com; Sahar.issa@balamand.edu.lb

Telephone: +961-71331003

Education

Working experience

Responsibilities include: developing a management plan for the reserve and a project about identification of the reserve plants, as well as organizing activities for students and visitors coming to the reserve.

Responsibilities include: Developing "Production of hydrogen by the dry reforming of methane in the presence of mixed oxides Co-Mg-Al-O as well as the effect of adding Ruthenium on the catalytic properties of these oxides" research by conducting experiments, analyzing and interpreting results (Gas Chromatography and Characterizations techniques: Diffraction of X-rays, measurement of specific surfaces, Infra-red Spectroscopy, UV Spectroscopy, Differential and Gravimetric Thermal Analyses).

Project Assistant for the “Integrated Management of East Mediterranean Coastlines” project, at the Marine Resources and Coastal Zone Management Program at the Institute of Environment, University of Balamand; Responsibilities include: contact with the municipalities, online data entry, and writing progress reports.

Project Assistant for the “Aerobiology Research Project for the Identification of Airborne Pollen Common to Lebanon”; responsibilities include: changing the drum, slides mounting, pollen counting & identification.

Graduate assistant for the Cell Biology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Balamand.

Additional skills

Training and workshops

March 2008: Participated in the “Integrated Management of East Mediterranean Coastlines” within the framework of the Marine Resources and Coastal Zone Management Program at the Institute of Environment, University of Balamand.

References

Available upon request.