Hesham I. Elqady

About

My name is Hesham Mohamed, and I am currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Thermal and Fluid Engineering Department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain. I am also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie YUFE4Postdoc Research Fellow at the Energy Systems Engineering Department at UC3M. Alongside this, I hold positions as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Borg Al-Arab Technological University in Egypt. I earned my Ph.D. in March 2023 through a joint program between Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. My doctoral research focused on concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems, with a particular emphasis on improving their performance through advanced materials and thermal management techniques. Throughout my academic journey, I have published a total of 19 research articles in high-impact Q1–Q2 journals, in addition to contributing to over 15 international conferences held across the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and Singapore.

Employment

• University of Cyprus Visiting Researcher
  2025 - 2025
• Carlos III University of Madrid Yufe4Postdocs Research Fellow – Marie Sklodowska-Curie
  2024 - Present
• Aswan University Assistant Professor
  2023 - 2024
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Visiting Researcher
  2022 - 2023
• Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology MSc Candidate (2016-2019) & PhD Candidate (2019-2023)
  2016 - 2023
• Aswan University Assistant Lecturer (on leave)
  2014 - 2023

Education

• Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology PhD Candidate
  2019 - 2023
• Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology Msc
  2016 - 2019
• Aswan University Bsc
  2007 - 2012

Projects & Funding

• From Waste to Porous Carbon for Green Energy. USAID
  2025 - 2027
• Innovative Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) trigeneration system to produce green hydrogen, electric power, and freshwater water European Research Executive Agency
  2024 - Present
• New innovative thermal system for improving the performance of HCPV cell and its application in solar desalination system. STDF
  2019 - 2021

Publications (20)

• Integrated energy–water cogeneration in a hybrid V-shaped dual-concentration solar system: a multi-physics approach
  Applied Energy 2027 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.128795
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• High-Performance hybrid solar system with V-shaped Receiver: Dual concentration and microchannel cooling approach
  Energy Conversion and Management 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120740
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• Boosting CPV/T efficiency with conductive encapsulants and microchannel cooling: hybrid numerical-experimental analysis
  Applied Thermal Engineering 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2025.127455
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• Performance analysis of V-shaped dual optical concentration CPV triple-junction/thermal system using ray-tracing simulations
  Hesham I. Elqady, Abdallah Y.M. Ali, Sridhar Sripadmanabhan Indira +2 more
  Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2025.107302
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• Advancing EVA/SiC Hybrid Nanocomposite Encapsulation for Performance Optimization in Concentrated Solar Power Systems
  2025 15th International Conference on Power, Energy, and Electrical Engineering (CPEEE) 2025 DOI: 10.1109/cpeee64598.2025.10987246
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• Fabrication of PMMA nanocomposite biomaterials reinforced by cellulose nanocrystals extracted from rice husk for dental applications
  Friction 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s40544-024-0940-1
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• Parametric study for optimizing double-layer microchannel heat sink for solar panel thermal management
  Scientific Reports 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-23061-8
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• Thermal and electrical performances of actively cooled concentrator photovoltaic system
  Applied Thermal Engineering 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117295
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• Influence of encapsulation materials on the thermal performance of concentrator photovoltaic cells
  Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2021.101135
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• Concentrator photovoltaic thermal management using a new design of double-layer microchannel heat sink
  Solar Energy 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.02.003
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• Thermal analysis of a hybrid high concentrator photovoltaic/membrane distillation system for isolated coastal regions
  Solar Energy 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2020.12.029
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• Thermal analysis of high concentrator photovoltaic module using convergent-divergent microchannel heat sink design
  Applied Thermal Engineering 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.116201
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• Impact of microchannel heat sink configuration on the performance of high concentrator photovoltaic solar module
  Energy Reports 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2020.11.248
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• Evaluation of stainless steel as an electrocatalyst for electrooxidation of urea – rich wastewater
  Materials Science Forum 2020 DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.1008.186
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• Experimental and theoretical studies of thermophysical properties of mgo-water nanofluid
  Materials Science Forum 2020 DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.1008.47
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• Header impact assessment of double-layer microchannel heat sink in the computational fluid mechanics simulation for CPV thermal management
  Energy Reports 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2020.10.037
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• Effect of Using MgO-Oil Nanofluid on the Performance of a Counter-Flow Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
  Key Engineering Materials 2019 DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.801.193
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• Assessment of New Technique for Production Cellulose Nanocrystals from Agricultural Waste
  Materials Science Forum 2018 DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.928.83
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• Mechanical Properties and Wear Behavior of a Novel Composite of Acrylonitrile–Butadiene–Styrene Strengthened by Short Basalt Fiber
  Journal of Composites Science 2018 DOI: 10.3390/jcs2020034
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• Mechanical Properties of ABS Embedded with Basalt Fiber Fillers
  Journal for Manufacturing Science and Production 2016 DOI: 10.1515/jmsp-2016-0006
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