Dr Mohammad Al-Amin

Biography

Dr Mohammad Al-Amin is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick and Director of Studies for BEng/MEng Mechanical Engineering, BEng/MEng Civil Engineering, MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering, and MSc Humanitarian Engineering. He provides academic leadership in curriculum development, programme delivery, assessment, quality assurance, and student experience.

His research spans sustainable energy and transport, including solar photovoltaics and lithium-ion battery energy storage, and more recently EdTech in higher education, with a focus on AI in teaching, learning, and assessment. He has led international research collaborations and received GCRF funding. He was a Leverhulme International Fellow and a Fellow of Warwick’s Institute for Global Sustainable Development. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA).

Research Interests

Mohammad’s research spans sustainable energy technologies and educational technology (EdTech) in higher education. His engineering research focuses on solar photovoltaics, lithium-ion battery energy storage, sustainable transport, and renewable energy integration, particularly in developing countries. He has led international research collaborations and received funding through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). He was a Leverhulme International Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) at the University of Warwick.

More recently, his research has focused on AI and digital technologies in higher education, including their responsible and ethical use in teaching, learning and assessment. Mohammad has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and received a Best Poster Award at the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) in 2016.

Teaching Interests

• ES1A5 Statics and Dynamics
  A Year 1 core module for the Electromechanical Engineering Degree Apprenticeship programme.

• ES2D5 Planar Structures and Mechanisms
  A Year 2 core module for the Mechanical Engineering programme.

• ES327 Individual Project
  A Year 3 individual dissertation/project module undertaken by students across all engineering disciplines.

Selected Publications

• M. Al-Amin, A. Barai, A. Rajan, J. Marco, “An insight to the degradation behaviour of the parallel connected lithium-ion battery cells”, Energies, 14(16), 4716, 2021.
• N. E. Grant, J. R. Scowcroft, A. I. Pointon, M. Al-Amin, P. P. Altermatt, J. D. Murphy, “Lifetime instabilities in gallium doped monocrystalline PERC silicon solar cells” Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 206 110299, 2020.
• M. Al-Amin, N. E. Grant, A. I. Pointon, J. D. Murphy, “Iodine–ethanol surface passivation for measurement of millisecond carrier lifetimes in silicon wafers with different crystallographic orientations” Physica Status Solidi A, 1900257, 2019.
• N.E. Grant, T. Niewelt, N.R. Wilson, E.C. Wheeler-Jones, J. Bullock, M. Al-Amin, M.C. Schubert, A.C. van Veen, A. Javey, J.D. Murphy, “Superacid-treated silicon surfaces: extending the limit of carrier lifetime for photovoltaic applications”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7 1574, 2017.
• M. Al-Amin, J.D. Murphy, “Combining low-temperature gettering with phosphorus diffusion gettering for improved multicrystalline silicon”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7 1519, 2017.
• M. Al-Amin, N.E. Grant, J.D. Murphy, “Low-temperature saw damage gettering to improve minority carrier lifetime in multicrystalline silicon”, Physica Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters, 11 1700268, 2017.
• M. Al-Amin and J. D. Murphy, “Passivation effects on low temperature gettering in multicrystalline silicon”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7, 68 – 77, 2017.
• M. Al-Amin and J. D. Murphy, “Increasing minority carrier lifetime in as-grown multicrystalline silicon by low temperature internal gettering”, Journal of Applied Physics, 119, 235704, 2016.
• M. Al-Amin and J. D. Murphy, “Low temperature internal gettering of bulk defects in silicon photovoltaic materials”, Solid State Phenomena, 242, 109 – 119, 2016.
• J. D. Murphy, M. Al-Amin, K. Bothe, M. Olmo, V.V. Voronkov, R.J. Falster, “The effect of oxide precipitates on minority carrier lifetime in n-type silicon ”, Journal of Applied Physics, 118, 215706 2015.

Projects and Grants

• 2022 – 2024 Leverhulme International Fellowship (PI), Leverhulme Trust, UK

"Sustainable, low-cost charging base stations for three-wheelers in Bangladesh"

• 2021 – 2023 International Partnership Fund (PI), University of Warwick

“Affordable and Clean Energy; Clean Water and Sanitation”

“Enabling cleaner, full-electric transport revolution in Bangladesh”

• 2021 – 2022 ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Application - Evolving Impact and Impact Network Grant (co-I)

“ECR Network – UN Sustainable Development Goals”

• 2019 – 2021 Institute for Global Sustainable Development - Research Fellowship (PI)

“Affordable and Clean Energy; Clean Water and Sanitation”

• 2019 – 2021 Global Challenges Research Fund Networking Grant Scheme (via the Academy of Medical Sciences) (PI)

“Enabling cleaner, full-electric transport revolution in Bangladesh”