Ahmad Fudholi, Ph.D REN, M.Sc, S.Si obtained his S.Si (2002) in physics. He was born in 1980 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. He served as was the Head of the Physics Department at Rab University Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia, for four years (2004–2008). A. Fudholi started his master course in Energy Technology (2005–2007) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). His M.Sc thesis was on Wind/PV Hybrid System, and his Ph.D thesis was about the Finned Double-Pass Solar Collectors for Drying of Seaweed. His M.Sc and Ph.D theses were conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dato’ Dr. Kamaruzzaman Sopian. After obtaining his Master’s, he became a research assistant at UKM until. After his Ph.D (2012) in renewable energy, he became postdoctoral in the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) UKM until 2013. He joined the SERI as a lecturer in 2014. He received more than USD 420,000 worth of research grant (20 grant/project) in 2014–2020. He supervised and completed more than 30 M.Sc projects. To date, he has managed to supervise eleven Ph.D (seven as main supervisors and four as co-supervisor), three Master’s student by research mode and five Master’s student by coursework mode. He was also an examiner (three Ph.D and one M.Sc). His current research focus is renewable energy, particularly solar energy technology, micropower systems, solar drying systems and advanced solar thermal systems (solar-assisted drying, solar heat pumps, PVT systems). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, of which 60 papers are in the Web of Science (WoS) index (40 Q1 or Top 25% and Top 10% jurnal, impact factor of 4-10), and more than 130 papers are in the Scopus index (Q1 and Q2 of 75 papers). In addition, he has published more than 80 papers in international conferences. He has a total citations more than 1000 and a h-index of 16 in WoS index. He has a total citations more than 2000 with a h-index of 22 and total papers more than 130 in Scopus (Author ID: 57195432490). He has a total citations more than 3000 with a h-index of 25 and total papers more than 190 in Google Scholar. He has been appointed as reviewer of high-impact (Q1) journals, such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Energy, Energy and Buildings, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy, Industrial Crops and Products and so on. He has been appointed as reviewer of reputatable journals, such as Drying Technology, International Journal of Green Energy, Biosystem Engineering, Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, Journal of Energy Efficiency, Sains Malaysiana, Jurnal Teknologi and so on. He has also been appointed as editor of journals. He has received several awards, such as the Gold Medal Award at the International Ibn Al-Haytham’s Al-Manazir Innovation and Invention Exhibition 2011, the Silver Medal Award at the International Technology EXPO (ITEX) 2012, the Silver Medal Award at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2013, the Bronze Medal Award at International Exposition of Research and Invention (PECIPTA) 2011 and two Bronze Medal Awards at PECIPTA 2017. He has also been invited as speaker in the Workshop of Scientific Journal Writing; Writing Scientific Papers Steps Towards Successful Publish in High Impact (Q1) Journals. He owns one patent and two copyrights.
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