I grew up in a small village in Yemen. After high school, I studied Physics and graduated with a bachelor’s (BSc) degree in physics from Cairo University (Egypt) in 2004 and then worked for the National Atomic Energy Commission (Sana'a-Yemen) in 2005. I got my Master (MSc) and PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Cairo University (Egypt)  in 2009 and 2014, respectively, which funded from the Yemeni Ministry of Higher Education scholarship. Since 2010, I am working at Taiz University (Yemen). In addition, I have worked at many universities in Yemen in 2015-2018. After that, Philadelphia University (Jordan) hosted my fellowship awarded from the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF). In 2020-2022, I was a researcher at Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw (Poland) via the Ulam-program that was funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Currently, I am a research fellow at the Nuclear Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Manchester (UK), funded by the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara). My research interests are focused on deepening our understanding of nuclear reaction theories. I am interested in scattering, breakup, and reactions of exotic nuclei. In addition, I am working on the energy and mass dependencies of the microscopic optical and dynamical potentials. 

Selected Papers:

1. H.M. Maridi, J. Singh, N.R. Walet, D.K. Sharp, “A two-cluster approach to the properties of one- and two-neutron-halo nuclei”, arXiv: 2407.03044 (2024), submitted.

2. H.M. Maridi, N. Keeley, and K. Rusek, “Simultaneous calculation of elastic scattering, fusion, and direct cross sections for reactions of weakly-bound projectiles”, Phys. Rev. C 109, 034601 (2024).

3. H.M. Maridi, K. Rusek, and N. Keeley, “Calculation of Coulomb breakup cross sections using a new Coulomb dynamical polarization potential”, Phys. Rev. C 106, 054613 (2022).

4. H.M. Maridi, K. Rusek, and N. Keeley, “Comparison of Coulomb breakup effects on the elastic scattering of 6He and 8He using a Coulomb dipole polarization potential”, Eur. Phys. J. A 58, 49 (2022).

5. H.M. Maridi, K. Rusek, N. Keeley, “Coulomb dynamical polarization potential and the electric dipole polarizability for weakly-bound and neutron rich light nuclei”, Phys. Rev. C 104, 024614 (2021).

6. H.M. Maridi, A. Pakou, and K. Rusek, “The p+9Be elastic scattering below 30 MeV: optical model analysis and data normalization”, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 30, 2150024 (2021).

7. H.M. Maridi, “Energy dependence and surface contribution of the optical potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering at energies up to 1 GeV”, Phys. Rev. C 100, 014613 (2019).

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Seminars and Conferences:

1. “A two-cluster approach for weakly-bound and halo nuclei”, University of Seville, Spain, 11 Nov 2024.

2.  “Coulomb Breakup of Weakly-Bound and Halo Nuclei”, University of York, UK, 23 Oct 2024.

3.  “Simultaneous calculations of elastic scattering, breakup, and transfer cross sections for the d+197Au”, Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland, 16 Oct 2024. 

4. “Elastic scattering and breakup reactions of Halo Nuclei”, General Interest Seminars, University of Edinburgh, UK, 03 Oct 2024.

5. “Simultaneous Calculation of Elastic Scattering, Transfer, and Breakup Cross Sections for d+197Au Reaction”, Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions Conference (NN2024), Whistler, BC, Canada, 18-23 Aug 2024.

6. “Simultaneous calculation of elastic scattering & direct cross sections for exotic projectiles”, the Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams (DREB2024) conference, Wiesbaden, Germany 24-28 June 2024.

7. “Coulomb Breakup of Light Exotic Nuclei”, for Nuclear Physics Seminars, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 22 May 2024.

8. “Simultaneous calculations for elastic scattering, fusion, breakup and other direct cross sections for reactions of exotic nuclei”, Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland, 24 Jan 2024.

9. “Coulomb dynamical polarization potentials of exotic nuclei”, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 07 Nov 2023.

10. “Coulomb dissociation of the exotic nuclei using Coulomb dynamical polarization potential”, the Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams conference (DREB2022) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 29 Jun 2022.

11. “Coulomb breakup of exotic nuclei studied by means of Coulomb dynamical polarization potential”, Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland, 18 May 2022.

12. “Data normalization of p+9Be elastic scattering below 30MeV: statistical study”, Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET 8) conference, FRIB, Michigan State University, USA,  13-16 Dec 2021. (Remotely)

13. “Proton elastic scattering from light nuclei using microscopic optical model and the eikonal approximation”, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, 18 Mar 2021.

14. “Energy dependence and surface contribution of the nucleon-nucleus optical potential”, Nucleus-2019 conference", Dubna, Russia, 1-5 July 2019.

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Teaching:

1. Academic Tutor for 2nd-year students at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Manchester, for the following courses:

• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (PHYS20101)

• Electromagnetism (PHYS20141)

• Mathematics of Waves and Fields (PHYS20171)

• Fundamentals of Solid State Physics (PHYS20252)

• Wave Optics (PHYS20312)

• Statistical Mechanics (PHYS20352)

2. Supervisor for MPhys project (PHYS40181 & PHYS40182)

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