Staff Profile

Dagmawie Tesfaye Mengistu

Email: dagmawie.tesfaye@aastu.edu.et

College: College of Social Science and Humanities

Department: Social Sciences Division

Academic Rank:

Qualification: PhD

Research Interest: History, Heritgae , minority studies ( subaltern ), Architectural History , Philosophy of History, Historiography

Publication: Dagmawie Tesfaye (2019).The Predicaments of the “Grand Narrative” of Ethiopian History: The Challenges of Post Modernism. African Journal of History and Culture 11, No. 2 (2019):11-14.DOI/https://doi.org/10.5897/AJHC2019.0426 URL /https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJHC/article-abstract/0A072A360291 Dagmawie Tesfaye ,(2020). Alok Kumar Sahoo, Critical Review on Cooperative Societies in Agricultural Development in India, Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology Aug.2020 , DOI:10.9734/CJAST/2020/v39/2230850 Dagmawie Tesfaye ,(2020). Covid 19, Environment and Technology in Ethiopia. International Journal of Research In Engineering.Vol.10 Issue 11 November 2020. http://euroasiapub.org. BOOK Dagmawie Tesfaye. A History of the Manjo Marginalized Minorities in Kafa Zone, Southwestern Ethiopia. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany December 2010 BOOK CHAPTER Dagmawie Tesfaye , COVID-19, and its Impacts on environment, technology and Society in Ethiopia ,( Book Chapter)in Maurice N. Amutabi and Linnet Hamasi Henry (Eds) .Dynamics of Covid -19 Pandemics in Africa: Formal ,Informal, Response and Coping Mechanisms from different sectors. Vol.5., 2021.The Center for Democracy , Research and Development CEDRED, Nairobi. Editor( BOOK ), 2023 Dagmawie Tesfaye ( Ed). 2023. Human value and Cost In Research aspects in Arts and social studies. London. B.P International.

Dereje Engida Woldemichael (PhD)

Email: dereje.engida@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Academic Rank: Associate Professor

Qualification: Phd in Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, 2009 MSc in Mechanical Engineering (Design), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2004. BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2001.

Research Interest: Mechanical Design, Applied Mechanics, Modelling and simulation, Fault Diagnosis, Machine Learning, AI in Design, Optimization

Publication: Google Scholar

Digafe Alemu

Email: digafe.alemu@aastu.edu.et

College: Collage of Natural and Applied Science

Department: Biotechnology

Academic Rank: Chief Technical Assistant

Qualification: Masters

Research Interest: Environmental Biotechnology

Publication: Ten

Dr. Aman Kassaye Sibhatu

Email: aman.kasye@aastu.edu.et

College: Engineering

Department: Chemical Engineering

Academic Rank: Assistant Professor

Qualification: PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a focus on Process Engineering

Research Interest: My research interests span photovoltaics, photocatalysts, energy storage, biomass, computational work (DFT), artificial intelligence, material recycling (waste/by-product), catalysis (photo/electrochemical), material science, and polymer science. I am focused on exploring and optimizing the performance and stability of 2D Nanomaterials and hetero-structures with different compositions, structures, and functionalities under various operating conditions.

Publication: Recent publications DFT investigation of the electronic and optical properties of hexagonal MX2/ZrXO (M= W, Mo and X= S, Se) van der Waals heterostructures for photovoltaic solar cell application (Oct, 27, 2022) Two-dimensional MXO/MoX2 (M= Hf, Ti and X= S, Se) van der Waals heterostructure: a promising photovoltaic material (Aug, 3, 2022)