University of Baghdad

Established in 1957, the University of Baghdad is the Iraqi main and first higher educational institute with a long history of teaching and research. Its well-diversified teaching offer includes a number of colleges and numerous specialized departments, institutions where over 60,000 students are trained every year. The College of Arts is one of the main bodies of the University of Baghdad. It is composed of eight departments: English Language, Arabic Language, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, History, Geography and Archaeology. International collaborations in research projects between the College of Art and EU (German) and Oriental (Japan) universities have been activated for many years. The Department of Archaeology has over 350 student enrolled in BA, MA and PhD courses which offer a wide range of teaching units on Islamic and Pre-Islamic period (Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian). The Department of History is one of the biggest within the College of Art, attracting almost 700 students. Its BA, MA and PhD include Ancient history, Islamic history, Modern  and Contemporary history. Having a privileged channel to maintain international relations, it has great expertise in organization and promotion of dissemination and exploitation activities. It will also participate in all the planned activities of the project, playing a relevant role in WP1 by contributing to the need analyses at both local and national level. 

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Sudad Amer Dayl received the B.Sc in Chemistry, from the University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (2007), the M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics from University of Leicester, Leicester, UK (2012), the PhD degree in Biochemistry from University of Leicester, Leicester, UK (2018).  In 2018, he became a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Baghdad. He has published six papers in international refereed journals and has few international conference contributions. His research interests cover different aspects of bioinformatics, mainly homology modelling and ligand docking. Since 2020 he is the director of scholarships and cultural relations at the University of Baghdad.

Laith Majeed Hussein is currently Assistant Professor Dr. Laith M. Hussein. Born in Baghdad, May 12th, 1964. Specialized in Ancient Archeology - Cuneiform Studies. Former Positions as Head of Department of Archaeology, Head of the consulting office and Vice-Dean for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies in the University of Baghdad, College of Arts. 2006 Ph.D. Phil. Philipps-University Marburg, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies in Germany. Participated in the fieldwork at the excavation at Sippar, Tall Harmal, Tall Bakr Awa in Iraq. Scientific researcher in many Institutions like Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin Universities, the Academy of Museology and German Archaeological Institute. He has participated in many international conferences, seminars and workshops and has published scientific articles. Board member the International Association for Assyriology (IAA), Adviser at Japanese-Iraqi Institute for Archaeological Education of Mesopotamia and member of the Scientific Committee of the international alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas (ALIPH).

Bahaa Najem Mahmood is lecturer of Italian Language at the University of Baghdad since 2008. After obtaining an MA in Italian Language and Culture, he obtained a PhD in Italian Literature and Philology from the University of Florence (Italy) in 2015. From 2015 until 2020 (October) he has been the administrative coordinator then the President of the Dep. of Italian Language at the University of Baghdad. His expertise encompasses also teaching methods and translations. In addition to teaching, he works as Arabic/Italian translator and language expert for several institutions and professional associations in Italy and Iraq. He took part to several Iraqi-Italian collaborative projects in various fields. He has published articles on Italian language and literature in Iraqi as well as international journals. In addition of his academic works, he is now the President of the scientific Iraqi committee for the development of Italian Didactic in Iraq and manages the Governmental Program for Italian Language, and officially he is the main representative of some Iraqi Universities for cultural and scientific agreements with Italian Universities. In 2019 due to his collaborations between Iraq and Italy he was awarded from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture as the best Iraqi translator in Italian Language.

Sarmad al-Anssari currently holds the position of the Vice Chancellor and Director of the Office of the President of the University of Baghdad and is lecturer at the College of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) at University of Baghdad. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in chemical engineering from University of Baghdad and he holds a PhD degree in chemical engineering/nanotechnology from Curtin University (Australia). He worked as a faculty member in the University of Baghdad for more than 10 years and recently became adjunct lecturer at the Edith Cowan University (Australia) and external supervisor at Curtin university. His research interest is on different applications of nanoparticles and nanofluids in different disciplines, including wettability alteration, enhanced oil recovery, and carbon capture and storage.