27 Apr 2021 - 8:03
Dr. Hanan Farhat during her research work.
The Peninsula
Doha: In less than one year since its opening, the Corrosion Center at Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute is estimated to have saved Qatar’s oil and gas industry millions of US dollars. But this doesn’t feel so big when you look at Qatar’s annual cost of corrosion – estimated at a whopping US $8 billion (National Association of Corrosion Engineering, NACE IMPACT study, 2016), which is approximately five percent of its annual gross domestic product.
“Corrosion costs in Qatar are very high,” said Dr. Hanan Farhat, Senior Research Director of the Corrosion Center at Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). “A major contributor towards these costs is the underestimation of corrosion phenomena and their impact on businesses – the business interruptions caused due to equipment failure can add up.
Success strategies for women in STEM stressed
20 Dec 2020 - 8:55
Dr. Hanan Farhat
The Peninsula
Doha: Four senior-level leaders from four academic institutions spoke candidly about their personal experiences and success strategies for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) professions during a recent webinar hosted by the Women’s Faculty Forum at Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university.
The discussion convened founder and senior research director of the Corrosion Center at the HBKU Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Dr. Hanan Farhat; Vice chancellor of Muscat University in Oman and the first female head of a university in that country, Dr. Yusra Mouzughi; Associate professor in the Public Policy Program at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Dr. Rabia Nagiub; and Senior director of programs at the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) in the US, Dr. Rochelle Williams. Texas A&M at Qatar faculty D