• Founder of Maridi UK Education, an Arabic guide to the UK education system, offering educational consultations and academic mentoring for Arabic-speaking students and families.

• Member of the UK Young Academy (UKYA), contributing to interdisciplinary collaboration, public engagement, and policy discussions.

• Recently completed a PGCE in Physics with Mathematics at the University of Manchester, gaining Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

• Grew up in a small village in Yemen and studied Physics at Cairo University (Egypt), earning a BSc (2004), MSc (2009), and a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (2014).

• Since 2010, affiliated with Taiz University (Yemen), holding various academic positions across the region.

• 2018–2020: taught at Philadelphia University (Jordan) through a fellowship from the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF).

• 2020–2022: conducted research at the Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw (Poland), through the NAWA Ulam Programme.

• 2023–2025: Researcher in the Nuclear Physics Group, University of Manchester (UK), supported by the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara).

• Research focuses on nuclear reaction theories, including scattering, breakup and exotic nuclei reactions, and on energy and mass dependencies in microscopic optical and dynamical potentials. In parallel, developing NUCLEI-PACK, a semi-classical, geometry-based framework that models nuclear structure through optimised sphere packing of nucleons and clusters. It reproduces global trends in nuclear radii and binding energies and aims to give a unified geometric interpretation of clustering and halo formation in light and exotic nuclei.

• Active in STEM outreach and mentoring, including as a STEM Ambassador, with a growing interest in AI in education and widening participation in STEM.

Current Research work:

NUCLEI-PACK: a framework I have been developing to explore nuclear structure from a purely geometric and semi-classical perspective. The approach is based on optimized sphere packing of nucleons and clusters, where explicit spatial coordinates are assigned to each proton and neutron. This representation captures the effect of the short-range nuclear force, in which strong repulsion prevents nucleons from overlapping, effectively treating them as hard spheres at close distances.

Recent studies within this project include:

1. H.M. Maridi, “Cluster and Halo Structures of Light Nuclei within the NUCLEI-PACK Framework”,  Arxiv: 2510.10741  (2025)

2. H.M. Maridi, “Global Trends of Nuclear Radii and Binding Energies from the NUCLEI-PACK Framework”, Arxiv: 2509.13750  (2025).

The project reproduces the global trends of nuclear radii and binding energies and provides a unified geometric interpretation of clustering and halo formation in light and exotic nuclei.

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Recent Papers:

1. H.M. Maridi, D.K. Sharp, J. Lubian, “Simultaneous calculation of elastic scattering, transfer, breakup, and other direct cross sections for d+197Au reaction”,  Nucl. Phys. A  1060, 123137  (2025).

2. H.M. Maridi, J. Singh, N.R. Walet, D.K. Sharp, “Two-cluster approach to the properties of one- and two-neutron-halo nuclei”, Phys. Rev. C 111, 034616 (2025).

3. 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).

4. 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).

5. 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).

6. 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).

7. 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).

8. 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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Recent Seminars and Conferences:

1.  “A two-cluster approach to the properties of halo nuclei”, UK Nuclear Physics Early Career Research Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK, 16 Jan 2025.

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

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

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

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

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

7. “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.

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

9. “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.

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

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

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

13. “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)

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

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

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Recent Teaching experience:

1. Completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Secondary Physics with Mathematics at the University of Manchester, with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

2. In 2023-2024, 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)

3. Supervisor for MPhys project (PHYS40181 & PHYS40182)

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