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    +966-13-849-4390

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    yalshammari@pmu.edu.sa

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    S-026

  • Yousef Alshammari, Ph.D.

  • Job Title :

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

  • College :

    College of Engineering


  • Department :

    Mechanical Engineering


Dr. Alshammari is a former Research Fellow at OPEC and a former research scientist in energy economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. For more than five years, he has been a well-known analyst at the OPEC ministerial meetings where he presents his insight on the oil market to national and international media TV channels including Sky News, Le Fonti International, Saudi News, Russian News, CNTV News, and the OPEC Channel. Furthermore, he has been invited an expert speaker at many global energy events and global firms including the S&P Global Platts (London), European Energy Forum (Paris), BGS Solar Forum (Nice), and the World Energy Congress (Istanbul & Daegu). Dr. Alshammari is a member of the Group of Experts on Sustainable Energy at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Geneva). He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London where worked on designing innovative processes for clean hydrogen generation from heavy oil fields. Following that, he joined the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to work on the techno-economic assessment of nuclear production of hydrogen for refining applications. He has also been a postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a global graduate-level research institute built by Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia, and he was an Associate of Energy Studies at King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS). Throughout his bright career pathway, he has been a recipient of many international prizes including the World Energy Congress Prize (2016) for TOP20 research papers for his work on the impact of low oil prices on carbon capture and storage, and the UK Alumni Award for Professional Achievements (2017). Since 2012, He has also been a peer-reviewer at major international energy journals including the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Energy Policy, and he published a wide range of research papers both in energy technology and energy economics. In 2017, he was honoured as a Young Global Changer by the G20 Global Solution Summit in Berlin, Germany, and in 2018, he was honoured with a certificate of appreciation for his long-term leadership services as a board member of Future Energy Leaders by World Energy Council.


  • Alshammari, Y. (2018). “Energy transition in transport using alternative fuels: Can new technologies achieve policy targets?”, OPEC Energy Reviews
  • Alshammari, Y. and Benmerabet, M, (2017). “Global Scenarios for Future Utilisation of Heavy Fuel Oil under New Sulphur and Carbon Regulations”, OPEC Energy Reviews
  • Alshammari, Y. and Sarathy, S.M, (2016). “Achieving 80% Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target in Saudi Arabia under Low and Medium Oil Prices”,Energy Policy
  • Alshammari, Y. et al., (2015) “An Overview of Lifecycle Sustainability Analysis of Hydrogen Systems”, IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement Task 36 Report, Washington DC, USA
  • Alshammari, Y., and Hellgardt, K., (2015). “CFD Modelling of Sub and Supercritical Water Reforming of n-Hexadecane in a Tubular Flow Reactor”, Chem. Eng. Res. & Des.
  • Alshammari, Y., and Hellgardt, K., (2015). “Sub and Supercritical Water Reforming of n-Hexadecane in a Tubular Flow Reactor”, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 107, 723-732
  • Alshammari, Y., and Hellgardt, K., (2014). “H2O2 Decomposition and Partial Oxidation of n-Hexadecane in Supercritical Water”, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 93, 565-575
  • Alshammari, Y., and Hellgardt, K., (2014). “A New HYSYS Model for Underground Gasification of Hydrocarbons under Hydrothermal Conditions”. International Journal of H2 Energy, 39,12648-12656
  • Alshammari, Y., and Hellgardt, K., (2013). “Clean Energy via Hydrothermal Gasification of Hydrocarbon Resources”, Proceedings of the 22nd World Energy Congress, Daegu, Korea
  • Alshammari, Y., and Hellgardt, K., (2012). “Thermodynamic Analysis of Hydrothermal Gasification of Hexadecane”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37, 5656 – 5664


Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=bPd8hYsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao


  • Systems analysis of low carbon transition scenarios
  • Technology-economics-policy interface
  • Assessment of oil demand at Micro & Macro-Economic levels
  • Oil market analysis in relation to energy transition, geopolitical uncertainty, economic growth and demand elasticity


  • World Energy Council, UK
  • G20 Young Global Changers, Germany
  • International Association of Energy Economics, USA
  • Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK
  • Energy Institute, UK
  • Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK