Hania Rida, Ph.D.

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Practitioner in Residence, Chemistry

Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
Tagliatela College of Engineering
Education

B.Sc. Chemistry, Lebanese University, Lebanon
M.Sc. Chemistry, Haute Alsace University, ENSCMu, Mulhouse, France
Ph.D., Lorraine University in Chemistry.

About Hania

Hania Rida is a Practitioner in Residence at the University of New Haven, where she also serves as the Departmental Seminar Coordinator for the Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering department, at the Tagliatela College of Engineering. She is currently teaching General Chemistry-I and its lab course. Dr. Rida previously served as an adjunct faculty member in the same department, teaching Instrumental Methods (Spring 2023).

Dr. Rida holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Lorraine University, Nancy - France, in 2011, where her research focused on graphite-lithium-europium and graphite-lithium-calcium systems, leading to several publications in peer-reviewed renowned journals such as Carbon.

She later worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the “Laboratoire Environnement et Minéralurgie” at the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, in Nancy - France, her research focuses on iron-clay reactivity for the underground disposal of radioactive waste in collaboration with ANDRA, France’s National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management.

Research Publications

Cahen, S., Rida, H., Berger, P., Fauchard, M., Lagrange, P., Marêché, J.-F., & Hérold, C. (2014). Graphite–lithium–europium system: Modulation of the structural and physical properties of the lamellar phases as a consequence of their chemical composition. Carbon, 77, 803–813.

Shiroka, T., Thede, M., Wittenfeld, L., Litterst, F., Cahen, S., Rida, H.,... Herold, C. (2013). Competingmagnetic interactions in the graphite-intercalation compound Li0.25Eu1.95C6. Carbon, 63, 294–302.

Lamura, G., Shiroka, T., Cahen, S., Rida, H., Emery, N., Marêché, J.-F., ... Hérold, C. (2012b). The zero-field magnetic ground state of EuC6 investigated by muon spectroscopy. Carbon, 50(11), 3995–4001.

Shiroka, T., Lamura, G., De Renzi, R., Belli, M., Emery, N., Rida, H., ... Hérold, C. (2011). µsr investigation of the intercalated graphite superconductor CaC6. New Journal of Physics, 13(1), 013038

Lagrange, P., Cahen, S., Emery, N., Hérold, C., Rida, H., Marêché, J., & Lamura, G. (2010). Polysynthetic nature of stage-one graphite-metal intercalation compounds prepared from graphite single crystals. Physical Review B, 81(15), 155425.

Rida, H., Cahen, S., Hérold, C., & Lagrange, P. (2010). Bulk synthesis and crystal structure of the first stage europium–graphite intercalation compound. Carbon, 48(11), 3190–3195.

Emery, N., Herold, C., Cahen, S., Rida, H., Mareche, J., Lagrange, P., & Lamura, G. (2008). Comment on "large energy gaps in CaC6 from tunneling spectroscopy: Possible evidence of strong-coupling superconductivity". arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3339.