FACULTY BIO

Areas of Expertise

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Electrocatalysis and CO₂ conversion; sustainable catalytic materials for clean energy technologies; electrochemical carbon-to-fuels pathways; water splitting and hydrogen production; single-atom and nanostructured catalysts; mechanistic insight into catalytic reaction networks; electrochemical interface modeling; constant-potential DFT; mechanistic ab initio molecular dynamics; structure-activity relationships for next-generation catalyst design.

Education

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• Ph.D., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2025–present
• M.Sc., University of Bahrain, 2022–2024 Graduated with Honors
• B.Sc., University of Bahrain, 2016–2021 Graduated with Honors

Biography

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Mr. Abdulrahman Allangawi is a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Bahrain, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on electrocatalysis, CO₂ conversion, water splitting, and the development of catalytic materials for sustainable energy technologies.

His work is centered on understanding and improving electrochemical reactions relevant to the synthesis of value-added chemicals and clean energy conversion. He combines electrocatalysis principles and material chemistry fundamentals with operando and computational mechanistic investigation to study how catalyst composition, structure, and surface environment influence activity, selectivity, and stability. To support and interpret experimental findings, he employs advanced operando spectroscopy and computational modeling approaches, including operando FTIR, density functional theory, constant-potential modeling, and ab initio molecular dynamics, enabling deeper insight into reaction pathways and catalyst–interface behavior.

His outstanding scientific contributions resulted in 20+ publications in high-impact Q1 journals, most of which he contributed as the first author, earning an H-index of more than 10 early on in his career.

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Publications & Presentations

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Selected publications:

• Allangawi, A., Xiao, X.T., Ma, X., Alsuhami, M., Khan, M.A., Aleisa, R., Kobayashi, Y., Li, W.L., Rueping, M., Gascon, J. and Zhang, H., 2025. Selective Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol: A Roadmap toward Practical Implementation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64(52), p.e202517916.
• Allangawi, A., Ayub, K., Gilani, M.A., Imran, M. and Mahmood, T., 2024. Transition metal loaded carbon penta-belt SACs for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions and identification of systematic DFT method to characterize the main interacting orbital for non-periodic system. International journal of hydrogen energy, 53, 989-998.
• Yang, X., Liu, G., Ma, X., Xiao, X., Allangawi, A., Zhang, H. and Li, W.L., 2025. Cation-and Potential-Dependent Modulation of Hydrophobic Hydration at Electrocatalytic Interfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 129(37), 16958-16966.
• Allangawi, A., Ayub, K., Al-Saadi, A.A., Gilani, M.A. and Mahmood, T., 2025. CO2 reduction to CH4: Harnessing Fe1@ B12N12 as single atom catalyst for environment restoration. Surfaces and Interfaces, 61, 106062.
• Li, J., Wu, J., Allangawi, A., Li, Y., Li, H., Guo, Y., Zhang, H. and Li, W.L., 2026. Bifunctional Electrocatalysts with High-Entropy Alloys: Bridging Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction. Chemistry of Materials, 38(7), 3066-3087.