Biography

Mahfooz A. Hafez

Mahfooz A. Hafez

National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Egypt

 He received his B.Sc. in 1991, M.Sc. in 1998 and Ph. D. in 2001 in Geophysics from Cairo University, Egypt. In 1995, He joined the National Research institute of Astronomy and Geophysics as a researcher.He received the professor degree in 2013. In 2006, he was COE visiting professor in Tohoku University. In 2007, he received a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship for two years in LIAG institute, Germany. He publish over 35 paper in the leading journal, He participate in hundreds of research and consultant projects. Currently, He is a professor in Al-Rayan Medical colleges, KSA.
Research Interest:
 Application of geophysical prospecting technologies on
•Development of methodology for interpretation of Potential field methods for mineral exploration.
•The imaging and evaluation of subsurface structure using electric/electromagnetic and GPR
•Developed technologies are applied mainly to civil engineering, such as the safe assessments of the basement evaluation, and extending its application  to the environmental problems like the soil and groundwater contamination, and to the archeological survey.
•Landmine detection and clutter-landmine discrimination
•Application of ground penetrating radar for utilities detection and leakage identifications.