YONAS CHEBUDE (PhD, FRSC)

Name Yonas Chebude (PhD, FRSC)
Academic Rank Associate Professor
Working for AAU since

 

 

January 2000
Administrative positions held if any/ past and present Dean, Faculty of Chemical and Physical Sciences, 2010-2012

Member, AAU University Council, 2010-2012

Board Chair, Service Center, CNS, 2009-2010

Chair, Chemistry Department and Physics Department, 2010

Member, Curriculum Review Committee Graduate Program, 2008

Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Programs, Faculty of Science, AAU, 2005-2007

Education PhD, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, Germany     (1994-1999)

M.Sc.(Chemical Engineering), Technische Hochschule Carl Schorlemmer, German Democratic Republic

Patents

 

 

P201231968 Manuel Sánchez Sánchez, Isabel Díaz Carretero, Negash getachew, Yonas Chebude “Procedimiento de preparación de compuestos metalo-orgánicos”. Diciembre 2012, CSIC-Addis Ababa University

P 201330262 Luis Gómez-Hortigüela, Joaquín Pérez Pariente, Isabel Díaz Carretero, Yonas Chebude “Material compuesto de estilbita nanohidroxiapatita, procedimiento de preparación y utilización para la eliminación de fluoruro del agua” 26 de Febrero de 2013, CSIC-Addis Ababa University.

Same patent has been filed in English in the Ethiopian Patent Office.

Representative Publications
  • Chemical Analysis of Gaet’ale, a Hypersaline Pond in Danakil Depression (Ethiopia): New Record for the Most Saline Water Body on Earth, Eduardo Pe´rez, Yonas Chebude, Aquat Geochem, DOI 10.1007/s10498-017-9312-z
  • Enhanced photocatalytic activity of TiO2 supported on zeolites: Degradation of real   waste waters from the textile industry of Ethiopia, K. Guesh, A. Mayoral, C. Márquez-Álvarez, Y. Chebude, I. Díaz Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 225 (2016) 88-97
  • Synthesis of Zeolite A using kaolin from Ethiopia and its application for detergents,   L. Ayele, J. Pérez-Pariente, Y. Chebude, I. Díaz, New Journal of Chemistry . DOI:10.1039/c5nj03097h.
  • Comparison of glucose conversion to 5-HMF using mordenite in ionic liquid and     biphasic media, W. Mamo, Y. Chebude, C. Márquez-Álvarez, I. Diaz, E. Sastre, Catalysis Science & Technology DOI: 10.1039/C5CY02070K
  • Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks in water at room temperature: salts as linker   sources, Manuel Sanchez-Sanchez, Negash Getachew, Kenya Diaz, Manuel Diaz-Garcia, Yonas Chebude and Isabel Diaz, Green Chem., 2015, 17, 1500-1509
Research Funding
  • Royal Society, UK-Africa Collaboration, 2016, £12,000
  • As Principal investigator and directly related to this call
  • SS-FF /018/2005: Synthesis, Characterization, Physicochemical Studies and Applications of New Polymacrocyclic Metal Complexes”- ETB 101, 000
  • Making Chemical Science and Chemical Manufacture More Sustainable and Responsive to People’s Needs in Ethiopia” DelPHE/British Council, 2006-2008, GBP 45.000
  • GCI-DEN Promoting Green Chemistry/Green Engineering in Local Universities and Industries in Ethiopia, 2007, USD 5000
  • Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund Developing World Scholarships, 2008- GBP 5000
  • RSC Research Fund, GBP 2000
  • AECID (A1/035517/11) “Elimination of Fluorine from the Rift Valley Using Natural Zeolites” (13/12/2011 – 12/06/2013) – 23,000EUR.
  • CSIC (I-COOP0014) “The role of zeolites in the conversion of Ethiopian biomass” (01/07/2011-30/06/2013) – 20,000 EUR.
  • SIDA SAREC CAOR/PY_132/2011 (TR/008/2011) “Solar Energy Conversion and Utilization Based on Conducting Polymers, Nanomaterials and Zeolites or Sustainable Development in Ethiopia” (01/11/2011 – 31/10/2014
  • AECID (C/030766/10) “Zeolites in Ethiopia: an untapped resource” (27/01/2011 – 27/01/2012) – 20,000EUR.
Current Research Projects
  • Transition metal complexes with heterocyclic ligands with possible applications as metallodrugs
  • Bioinorganic transition metals chemistry
  • Fluorine chemistry
  • Green Chemistry, Bioplastics from renewable resources
  • Zeolites Chemistry (catalysis)
Affiliations
  • Chemical Society of Ethiopia, President (2009-2013)
  • PACN, Ethiopia Mini-Hub, Chair
  • Federation of African Societies of Chemistry, EC member
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • IUPAC Fellow
  • Member, Advisory Council of the International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre, ISC3, Federal Republic of Germany
Editorial Experience
  • Editor-In-Chief, Solutions, Newsletter of the Ethiopian Chemical Society ( 2007-2009)
  • Advisory Board member, Green Chemistry, RSC, UK
Other Activities
  • 12th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, August/September 1998
  • Co-organized the “First Workshop on Green Chemistry in Ethiopia”, December-January 2004/2005
  • Co-organized the second, third, fourth and fifth Green Chemistry Workshop in Ethiopia
  • Attended the African Green Chemistry Workshop, January 2007. Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Invited speaker at the 11th Annual Green Chemistry &Engineering Conference, June 2007,Washington, DC, USA
  • Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference, August 2008, Maine, USA
  • Invited speaker, GC workshop, Cairo, Egypt 2009
  • Invited speaker, GC workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009
  • Invited speaker, 40th South African Chemical Institute (SACI) National Convention and Federation of African Chemical Societies (FASC) Meeting, Johannesburg, 2011
  • International Deans’ Course 2011/2012, Osnabrueck-Nairobi-Addis Ababa
  • Invited speaker, 7th International Kenya Chemical Society Conference, Maseno University, Kenya, 2012
  • Invited speaker, 2nd Symposium on Analytical Chemistry (ACSD 2013) and 4th Congress of the Federation of African Societies of Chemistry (FASC), Marakech, Morocco, 2013
Address Campus: College of Natural and Computational

Building: Science Building, Arat Kilo

Floor Number: 1st

Office no.: 103

Office telephone: +251111239466

Mobile :+251911454889

Fax: +251111239470

University email ID: yonas.chebudie@aau.edu.et

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