Hind Al-Abadleh

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Hind Al-Abadleh
Alma mater United Arab Emirates University
Iowa University
Known forEnvironmental chemistry
Scientific career
Institutions Wilfrid Laurier

University of Guelph
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of California Irvine

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Hind Al-Abadleh was a professor of chemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She studied the physical chemistry of environmental interfaces, aerosols and climate change.

Early life and education

Al-Abadleh grew up in the United Arab Emirates, where she became interested in chemistry during high school. [1] She was excited that science could be used to protect the environment. [1] In high school, she developed an interest in chemical impacts on the environment and went on to graduate as one of the top 10 students in the country. She eventually studied chemistry at the United Arab Emirates University, graduating in 1999. [2] She joined the University of Iowa in 1999 for her doctoral studies, earning her PhD in 2003. [2] She was awarded the University of Iowa Dissertation Prize in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering. [2]

Research

She moved to Northwestern University for a postdoctoral scholarship working with Franz Geiger. Whilst she loved Iowa, 9/11 made America a hostile climate for Muslim women (and men). [1] She was appointed to the Department of Chemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University as an assistant professor in 2005 and was eventually promoted to Full Professor. [2] She was awarded a Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award to study the surface interactions of organoarsenical compounds with geosorbents spectroscopically. [3] Al-Abadleh held adjunct professor appointment at the University of Waterloo. She also was a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and Trent University (as the Inaugural Ray March Visiting professor). The 2008 Petro-Canada award allowed her to study organic arsenic in soil and water. [4] Her research has been supported by the American Chemical Society, Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation, Imperial Oil and Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. [2] She is studying the ageing of aerosols using computational chemistry, mathematical modelling and spectroscopy. [5] [6] [7] She gave a talk at 2014 TED x Laurier University, To Dream and To Act. [8] In 2015 she published a study showing that aqueous phases reactions of guaiacol and catechol with iron leads to the formation of secondary colored particles. This study highlighted additional pathways for particle growth in the atmosphere in addition to particle nucleation and growth from gas phase precursors. [9]

In 2018 she was named the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, and worked at University of California, Irvine, for 2019. [10] This position allowed her to teach a course on environmental catalysis and conduct research on multiphase chemistry in atmospheric aerosols catalyzed by metals. [10] She was also a board member of Nano Ontario. [11]

At Laurier, Dr. Al-Abadleh was honoured with the 2023 Hoffman-Little Award for teaching, leadership and collaboration, the 2021 University Research Professor Award, a Faculty Mentoring Award in 2015 and multiple Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association Merit Awards. She was a fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry, a long-time member of the American Chemical Society and the Chemical Institute of Canada. [12]

In August 2024, Dr. Al-Abadleh began serving as department chair for Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences at the University of Texas. [13]

She died in January, 2025. [12] “Dr. Al-Abadleh changed my life in ways I never expected,” says Yara Khalaf, a Laurier PhD candidate in Chemistry who worked alongside Hind since her time as an undergraduate student. “Her passion for science was contagious. Because of her, I found my purpose. She taught me to think critically and to care deeply about the work we do and the people we impact. I am heartbroken that I can no longer hear her voice, her guidance or her laughter”. [12]

Bibliography

  1. FT-IR Study of Water Adsorption on Aluminum Oxide Surfaces [14]
  2. Surface Water Structure and Hygroscopic Properties of Light Absorbing Secondary Organic Polymers of Atmospheric Relevance [15]
  3. Efficient Formation of Light-Absorbing Polymeric Nanoparticles from the Reaction of Soluble Fe(III) with C4 and C6 Dicarboxylic Acids [16]
  4. ATR-FTIR and Flow Microcalorimetry Studies on the Initial Binding Kinetics of Arsenicals at the Organic–Hematite Interface [17] \
  5. Density functional theory calculations on the adsorption of monomethylarsonic acid onto hydrated iron (oxyhydr)oxide clusters [18]
  6. Dispersion Effects on the Thermodynamics and Transition States of Dimethylarsinic Acid Adsorption on Hydrated Iron (Oxyhydr)oxide Clusters from Density Functional Theory Calculations [19]

Awards

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  6. ↑ Al-Abadleh, Hind A. (2015). "Review of the bulk and surface chemistry of iron in atmospherically relevant systems containing humic-like substances". RSC Advances. 5 (57): 45785–45811. Bibcode:2015RSCAd...545785A. doi: 10.1039/C5RA03132J . ISSN   2046-2069.
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  8. ↑ TEDx Talks (2014-02-03), To dream and to act: Hind Al-Abadleh at TEDxLaurierUniversity , retrieved 2018-10-03
  9. ↑ "Sunlight plays key role in airborne aerosol gases | The Chemical Institute of Canada". www.cheminst.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Laurier chemistry professor Hind Al-Abadleh named Fulbright Scholar | Wilfrid Laurier University". www.wlu.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
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  12. 1 2 3 Wilfrid Laurier University (January 16, 2025). "Laurier mourns the passing of Professor Hind Al-Abadleh". Laurier News Hub, Spotlights. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Linked In". LinkedIn. Retrieved January 24, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ↑ Al-Abadleh, Hind A.; Grassian, V. H. (2003-01-01). "FT-IR Study of Water Adsorption on Aluminum Oxide Surfaces". Langmuir. 19 (2): 341–347. doi:10.1021/la026208a. ISSN   0743-7463.
  15. ↑ Rahman, Mohammad A.; Al-Abadleh, Hind A. (2018-11-30). "Surface Water Structure and Hygroscopic Properties of Light Absorbing Secondary Organic Polymers of Atmospheric Relevance". ACS Omega. 3 (11): 15519–15529. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02066 . ISSN   2470-1343. PMC   6644084 . PMID   31458208.
  16. ↑ Tran, Ashley; Williams, Geoffrey; Younus, Shagufta; Ali, Nujhat N.; Blair, Sandra L.; Nizkorodov, Sergey A.; Al-Abadleh, Hind A. (2017-09-05). "Efficient Formation of Light-Absorbing Polymeric Nanoparticles from the Reaction of Soluble Fe(III) with C4 and C6 Dicarboxylic Acids". Environmental Science & Technology. 51 (17): 9700–9708. Bibcode:2017EnST...51.9700T. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b01826. ISSN   0013-936X. PMID   28753002.
  17. ↑ Situm, Arthur; Rahman, Mohammad A.; Allen, Nicholas; Kabengi, Nadine; Al-Abadleh, Hind A. (2017-08-03). "ATR-FTIR and Flow Microcalorimetry Studies on the Initial Binding Kinetics of Arsenicals at the Organic–Hematite Interface". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121 (30): 5569–5579. Bibcode:2017JPCA..121.5569S. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03426. ISSN   1089-5639. PMID   28691808.
  18. ↑ Adamescu, Adrian; Hamilton, Ian P.; Al-Abadleh, Hind A. (2017-06-01). "Density functional theory calculations on the adsorption of monomethylarsonic acid onto hydrated iron (oxyhydr)oxide clusters". Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1109: 58–63. doi:10.1016/j.comptc.2017.03.033. ISSN   2210-271X.
  19. ↑ Adamescu, Adrian; Hamilton, I. P.; Al-Abadleh, Hind A. (2016-11-23). "Dispersion Effects on the Thermodynamics and Transition States of Dimethylarsinic Acid Adsorption on Hydrated Iron (Oxyhydr)oxide Clusters from Density Functional Theory Calculations". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 120 (46): 9270–9280. Bibcode:2016JPCA..120.9270A. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.6b08367. ISSN   1089-5639. PMID   27792343.
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