Pr. Zouheir SEKKAT

Mohamed V University, Morocco.

Pr. Zouheir SEKKAT : Zouheir Sekkat is full professor of the Department of Chemistry, of the Faculty of Sciences, of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco, and Director of the Optics & Photonics Centre, Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science & Innovation & Research, MAScIR, of the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Morocco, and Cross-appointed full professor of Osaka University, Japan. Sekkat’s research interests, are in the fields of Photonics and Nanotechnology, including green photonics, i.e. renewable energies, and agro-photonics, by remote sensing, and bio-photonics, for medical diagnostics and therapy, and smart materials for, for example, future materials for direct conversion of light energy into mechanical energy. These research and development area are supported by expertise in Nonlinear Optics, Photochemistry, Photoreactive polymers, Plasmonics and Near-field Nano Optics and Spectroscopy, Waveguide Optics, Holography, 3D Nano-printing, and Photovoltaics, as well as other experties. In 2006, he received the Elsevier prize for the most cited paper in Morocco. He has authored and co-authored more than 170 international publications, with 4714 citations and h-index of 37 (ISI), and 6 patents and book chapters and edited a book. In 2010, he received a distinction prize from the Ministry of education of Morocco, and in 2006, he was appointed as a corresponding member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology, and he is currently Expert of this academy. In 2019 he was elected to the rank of fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and SPIE in 2020 and OSA in 2021.