Education:                                 

• Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering (2020), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.           
• M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (2015), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.              
• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (2010), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.                             

Work Experience:

• Engineer IV; Research & Development Centre, Saudi Aramco (2010 – 2012).
• Graduate Assistant; Mechanical Engineering Department King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (2012 – 2015).
• Lecturer; Mechanical Engineering Department King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (2015 – 2020).
• Assistant professor; Mechanical Engineering Department King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (2020 – now).

Courses Taught:

• ME 216           Materials Science and Engineering
• ME 217           Materials Lab
• ME 205           Materials Science

Research Interests:

Sustainable and synthetic nanomaterials development for electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies and environmental applications.

Publications:

• Atif S. Alzahrani, Mitsutoshi Otaki, Daiwei Wang, Yue Gao, Timothy S. Arthur, Shuai Liu, Donghai Wang, Confining Sulfur in Porous Carbon by Vapor Deposition to Achieve High-Performance Cathode for All-Solid-State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries, ACS Energy Letters (2021). 
• Yue Gao, Daiwei Wang, Yun Kyung Shin, Zhifei Yan, Zhuo Han, Ke Wang, Md Jamil Hossain, Shuling Shen, Atif AlZahrani, Adri CT van Duin, Thomas E Mallouk, Donghai Wang, Stable metal anodes enabled by a labile organic molecule bonded to a reduced graphene oxide aerogel; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
• Guoxing Li, Zhe Liu, Daiwei Wang, Xin He, Shuai Liu, Yue Gao, Atif AlZahrani, Seong H Kim, Long‐Qing Chen, Donghai Wang, Electrokinetic phenomena enhanced lithium‐ion transport in leaky film for stable lithium metal anodes, Advanced Energy Materials (2019)
• Atif S. Alzahrani, Ran Yi, Jiangxuan Song, Dongha Wang, Hybrid Li-Ion Electrochemical Capacitor Enabled By Highly Crumpled Nitrogen-Doped Graphene, Presented at 233th Electrochemical Society meeting 2018, Seattle, WA, USA (2018)

Patents:

• Nasser Al-Aqeeli, Muhammad Ashraf Gondal, Hamoud Al-Hajri, Atef Al-Zahrani, Crumb Rubber Coating Composition and Method for Protecting A Surface, (2018).
• Ahmad D. Hammad, Zaki Yusuf, Stamatios Souentie, Nayif A. Al-Rasheedi, Bandar A. Fadhel, Atef Saeed Al-Zahrani, Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Hydrocarbon Fuel via Syngas Production Cell Harnessed From Solar Radiation, (2016).