Taha Ahmed, Ph.D.

Doctoral thesis. The document itself (literate programming using LaTeX and R), its source code, and all data are freely published with a CC-BY license.

MSc thesis, supervised by Sara Green (dept of solid state physics, Uppsala University) and Sophie von Kraemer (Chromogenics Sweden AB).

BSc thesis commissioned by Perstorp AB performed at the department of physical, inorganic, and structural chemistry at Stockholm University.

Published by Uppsala University on the Swedish National Data Service.

• R
• LaTeX
• Rnoweb

To calculate the optical band gap of semiconductors from UV-Vis spectra using the Tauc method.

• research software
• UV-Vis spectroscopy
• inorganic semiconductors

A systematic collection of properties of the chemical elements visualised on the IUPAC periodic table using ggplot2.

• dataset
• general chemistry
• web scraping

A small but easily extensible database of band gaps and band energies for some semiconductors.

• dataset
• semiconductors

Functions to work with the solar reference spectrum G173-03 and theoretical black-body spectra.

• research software
• photoelectrochemistry
• sunlight

With functions to convert between common reference electrode scales at varying temperatures and ionic concentrations.

• dataset
• electrochemistry

Dataset of X-ray transition properties for all chemical elements, with a function to match observations against the most likely element.

• dataset
• X-ray transitions

Calculates the solubility of oxygen gas in water with varying temperature.

• research software
• physical chemistry

Ansiblify everything, I say! Ansible puts configuration-as-code firmly within the grasp of any academic dabbling with code, in my opinion. Some of my highlights:

• LXD

• R

• Gitea

• Ansible

• Git

• YAML

• Jinja

• RSS

• Python

• Postfix

• Dovecot

These slides are quite outdated by now, but they help to demonstrate my long-standing conviction on the importance of open scientific practices.

• ORCID

• Figshare

Gave a short presentation of my Ansible playbook for the academic desktop at the first in-person conference of the Nordic Research Software Engineers.

A one-day conference on tech, internet, integrity and decentralization organized by the Swedish chapter of the Internet Society, SNUS, DFRI and dataskydd.net.

Hands-on workshop with lots of examples demonstrating uses of awk, led by Pavlin Mitev and others from UPPMAX.

An entirely online conference, a first for yours truly. I adapted to it by creating this animated plot as the centre-piece to my poster.

Presented the near-complete mineralization of methylene blue on low-dimensional zinc oxide quantum dot suspensions.

Presented results from my on-going research on the opto-electronic properties of semiconductor colloidal suspensions. This conference was organized by Uppsala University's two chemistry departments.

I was invited to give a LaTeX workshop for fellow PhD students.

Presented a talk of my early research into ALD-coating of electrodeposited zinc oxide nanorods and their photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical properties.

Shared some of my work into CBD-coated zinc oxide nanorods and their photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical properties at the Materials Research Society spring meeting in San Francisco.

Presented results from my early research into coating different visible-light absorbing semiconductors on top of nanostructured zinc oxide at the 19th International conference on photochemical conversion and storage of solar energy.

Supervised a masters-level student for a 15 hp course (half a semester) in materials science entailing laboratory synthesis and characterization on work closely related to my own research, successfully completed by the student into a written report.

Developed and led (jointly) a 4-day course introducing R for postgrads and postdocs at the Ångström Laboratory (around 20 participants).

Teaching assistant in charge of laboratory part of courses in basic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and physical chemistry (solo or together with other lab TAs, each TA assigned 16 students).

Conscript. Served as naval-base guard, trained as "skyddsvakt".

Ansvar för utdelning och insamling av provmaterial samt id-kontroll av ca 30 provdeltagare.

Utsedd till doktorandrepresentant av SFS i UKÄ:s bedömargrupp som utvärderade Högskolan Dalarnas ansökan om tillstånd att utfärda examen på forskarnivå i resurseffektiv byggd miljö.

This was great fun - helping adults accomplish something they thought near-impossible. Of course, the participants already did the hard part by signing up to the course, and more bicycling is good for any city.

Bidrog till att stärka rättigheterna för tredjelands-doktorander i Sverige. samt ledamot i universitetets kvalitetsråd.

Doktorandrepresentant, deltog i framtagadent av universitets första KoF, samt i andra frågor som föredrogs vid rådet.

Stärkte insynen i TNDRs verksamhet genom att skapa en webbsajt i Drupal, samt etablera profiler på Twitter och Linkedin.

Representerade kemistudenterna på grundutbildningsnivå gentemot sektionen för kemi, Stockholms universitet.