Smart Materials

Biography

Ali CHEKNANE has more than 20 years graduate and post-graduate teaching experience at the university as temporary, associated and permanent position. He is a full-Professor at the Amar Telidji University of Laghouat-ALGERIA and Ph.D. in physics. He is a senior member at the International Academy of Science and Engineering for Development (IASED): http://www.iased.net/ and has published many papers in various journals and conference proceedings on renewable energy subjects. He served as an editorial board for several journals and committee member for international conferences. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. students (11 thesis have been defended), 14 post-graduation memories (Magister) and more than 40 graduation memories (Engineer and Technician) in electrical engineering and computing. He had an incentive award from “Centre de Développement des Énergies Renouvelables- CDER” and an award for the best publication in physics in Algeria from the ANDRU agency in 2008. He is the head of the research team: “Photovoltaic Systems & Devices” and reviewer in many Journals as: Solar Energy, Conversion Energy and Management Journal, Electronics Journal, International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research, Measurement, International Journal of Electronics, Energy and Buildings and Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. He was the President of the Scientific Committee at the Electrical Engineering Department- Amar Telidji University of Laghouat for two years, Vice Dean of Research and Post-graduation at the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering. University of Laghouat for two years and President of an Association of Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development. Laghouat. ALGERIA. He is the dean of the Faculty of Technology at Amar Telidji University of Laghouat- ALGERIA.

Research Interest

Renewable Energy, Buildings, electrical, electronics engineering, and Computing, Applied Electrochemistry