Fouad Youssef Kamal

 

 

Address :         35 Misr Development Building ,Apartment 19,Africa St.      

                        extension of Mostafa El Nahas St. Nasr City, 8th area, Cairo,

                        Egypt

 

 Work:             Al-Azher University – Faculty of Science , Astronomy Department , P.O.Box 11884

 

Tele.:              (202) 2756970 , work : (202) 22629357/58  ext: 282 /221

Cell phone:    0103436894

E-mail:           Fouadyk@hotmail.com , fouadastro@yahoo.com

Education

    

    

·  Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cairo in 1990

·  Master's degree in astronomy from the University of Cairo in 1979

·  Bachelor of Science in astronomy and physics from the University of Cairo in 1968

      

 

 

 

Languages

 

·     Arabic : mother tongue 

·     English : good command of the language written & spoken

 

 

Career

 

 

·        A full-time assistant professor of astronomy department and meteorology-the Faculty of Science-Azhar University in 2005

 

·     Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and meteorology-the Faculty of Science-Azhar University in 2003

·        Teacher Department of astronomy and meteorology-the Faculty of Science-Azhar University-1998

 

·        Lecturer  in Department of Astronomical Sciences – Faculty of Science- King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) during the period from 1977 until 1997, including two in the first service at the position of  technician

 

·        Specialist in the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology-Meteorological Institute Helwan during the period from 1975 until 1977

 

·        Service of the armed forces (air defense) from 10/4/1969 to 5/01/1974

 

____________________________________________________General Information ____________________________________________________

 

·         Date & place of Birth : 16/4/1944 in Alexandria

·        Gender: Male

·        Nationality: Egyptian

·        Marital Status: Married

·        Muslim

 

 

____________________________________________________Research Activities __________________________________________________

 

·        Teaching the following Courses in The Department of Astronomy :

·        General Astronomy & history

·        Telescopes & detectors

·        Galaxies

·        Stellar Structure

·        Astrophysics

·        Planetary Atmosphere

·        Interstellar Matter

·             

 

·        Participated in the Supervision of the following :

·        Ph.D. in November 2006  titled “ Photometric investigations of some newly discovered Open Stars Clusters”

·        Ph.D. in 2006 titled “ Some Statistical Methods to determine Cosmological Distances”

·        Master in March 2006 titled “ The physical properties of Open Cluster  NGC 2112 “

·        Master in 2006  titled “ Photometric Investigation of  Open Clusters case study : The Southern Open Cluster NGC 2477

·        Master in 2005 titled “ Properties of Early  and  late – Type galaxies groups “

 

·        Participation in the following conferences:

 

·        Participate in the 11 th scientific conference of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics from 17-21 December, 2006

·        Participate in the 10 th scientific conference of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics from 13-19 December, 2004

·        Participate in the 5 th  International Scientific Conference (science and development and the environment) from 25-27 March 2003 - Azhar University (Faculty of Science)

·        Participate in the Second Symposium of Astronomy and Space Sciences (CASR) - Cairo from 13-15 April , 2002

·        Participate in the4 th  International Scientific Conference (science and development and the environment) from 27-29 March 2001 - Azhar University (Faculty of Science)

 

·        Published Researches:

 

·        See Attached file

 

 

·        Other Activities:

·        Supervised a graduation  Bachelor research titled “ The Red Planet “

·        Participated  in  putting the new  study  plan of  the department , which was applied with a list of the new College

·        Participated in the development of the Laboratories

·        A member in the I.A.U. (International Astronomical Union

·        Participated in the evaluation  & classification of the manuscripts of Arab Heritage in astronomy in Al-Azher Library

·        Participated with the working  group to monitor  the solar eclipse  on  March 29 , 2006  in  the city of Salloum