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Dr. Faten Attig Bahar is a climate change and renewable energy expert  with a wealth of  expertise in implementing both research and work programs in the area of energy technologies, energy systems modeling, climate mitigation and finance, the water-energy-food nexus,  and the green transition.

Additionally, Faten is a Certified Renewable Energy Project Developer of the German Renewable Energy Academy (RENAC). She has also obtained certificates in Renewable  Market Leadership,  Green Finance and  Energy Efficiency from the same Academy,  and was an  Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the International Climate Protection Program (2019 -2020). 

Moreover, Faten is very active with international and regional committees that promote sustainability and climate protection. She holds  positions of responsibility in various African and International NGOs including: 

o The Future Earth Governing Council, Future Earth WEF Nexus KAN and previously, the Future Earth African Committee 

o The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Research Board on Weather, Climate, Water and the Environment 

o The Young Earth System Scientists Community, (YESS community)

GEO WG post 2025 

The AfricaLics scientific board. 

Additionally, Faten is the author of several children's books (20 published books in Arabic), and has won several awards as an outstanding author for the  youth since 2007. 

Peer Reviewed Accredited Academic Journal Articles: 

 

 

  1. Falk J, Gleick P.H,   Asayama S,   Attig?Bahar F,  Behera S, · von Braun J, ·  Colwell R.R,  Chapagain A.K,   El?Beltagy A.S,  Kennel C.F, ·  Kimoto M,  · Koike T, Konde A.A,  Koundouri P, Abd?Elmabod S.K.M, Lal R,  Lee T.Y,  Murray C.A, Nangia V, Sapkota A,  Saijo T, Serageldin I,  Soussana J.F,  Takara K,  Takeuchi K,  Tran T, Victor D,  Watanabe C, Wheeler K, · Yasunari T.  2024. Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need. Sustainability Science 19:241–244. doi:10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8 

  2. Attig Bahar F, Ritschel U, Benabadji AS, Sahraoui M. 2022. Technico-Economic Investigation of 100 MW Offshore Wind Farm in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia. Wind Engineering. 1-13 doi:10.1177/0309524X221087311

  3. J. Falk, Attig?Bahar F. , R.R. Colwell, S. K. Behera,·A.S. El?Beltagy,  J. von Braun, P. Dasgupta, P. H. Gleick, R. Kaneko, C. F. Kennel,  P. Koundouri, Y. T. Lee, T.E. Lovejoy, · A. Luers,  C. A. Murray,R. Lal, I.  Serageldin, Y. Sokona, K. Takeuchi, M.Taniguchi, C. Watanabe, T. Yasunari. 2022. Addressing our planetary crisis. Sustainability Science. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01059-x  

  4. Attig Bahar F., Ritschel U., Akari P, Ibrahim A., Amairi M. 2021. Wind energy deployment in Tunisia: Status, Drivers, Barriers and Research gaps - A Comprehensive review. Energy Reports 7(2):7374-7389. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.10.087 

  5. K. Mohamed,  P. Rzymski, M.I. Shahidul  ,  R. Makuku, A. Mushtaq, A. Khan, M. Ivanovska, S.A. Makka, F. Hashem,  L. Marquez,  O. Cseprekal,  E. Mickael,  I.  Ling, A. Godana A. S.Cuschieri, K. Minakova, E. Rodríguez-R.Sunny    O.    Abarikwu.,  F. Attig-Bahar,    G. Grancini, N. Rezaei. 2021.  COVID-19 vaccinations: The unknowns, challenges, and hopes. Journal of Medical Virology. 

  6. Attig Bahar F, Sahraoui M, Guellouz M.S., Kaddeche S. 2021. Economic Analysis of a 1MW Solar Chimney Power Plant in Tozeur, Tunisia. Renewable Energy 178: 456-465. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.06.073

  7. Mohamed, K., Rodríguez-Román, E., Rahmani, F., Zhang, H., Ivanovska, M., Makka, S.A., Joya, M., Makuku, R., Islam, M.S., Radwan, N., Rahmah, L., Goda, R., Abarikwu, S.O., Shaw, M., Zoghi, S., Irtsyan, S., Ling, I., Cseprekal, O., Attig-Bahar F., Hazar, E., Tbalvandany, C.S., Grancini, G., Rezaei, N., 2020. Borderless collaboration is needed for COVID-19; a disease that knows no borders. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.162

  8. Mohamed K, Rezaei N, Rodríguez-Román E, Rahmani F, Zhang H, Ivanovska M, A. Makka S, Joya M, Makuku R, Md Shahidul Islam, Nesrine Radwan, Laila Rahmah, Goda R, Sunny O. Abarikwu, Mujtaba Shaw, Zoghi S, Irtsyan S, Ling I, Orsolya Cseprekal, Attig-Bahar F, Hazar Sayar E, Soloukey C, Giulia Grancini.. 2020. International Efforts to Save Healthcare Personnel during COVID-19. Acta Biomed. 91(3):e2020044. Available from: https://www.mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica/article/view/9891

  9. Attig Bahar F, Sahraoui M, Guellouz M.,S., Kaddeche S. 2019. CFD-Analysis of Solar Chimney Power Plants Performance with Thermal Storage in the South of Tunisia. Solar Energy 193: 545-555.doi:  DOI10.1016/j.solener.2019.09.058

  10. Langendijk G, Aubry-Wake, C., Osman M.,Gulizia C., Attig Bahar F., Behrens E., Bertoncini A., Hart N., Victor S.I., Silvia I., Eveline C.,Van Der L.,Mamnun N., Rasouli K.,Reed K.,Ridder N., Rivera J., Ruscica R., Ukazu B.,U., Walawender J.,P., Walker D.,P., Woodhams J.,P., Yilmaz Y., 2019. Three ways forward to improve regional information for extreme events: an early career perspective. Front. Environ. Sci. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00006  

  11. Dike Victor.N., Addi M., Andang´O, H.A., Attig Bahar F., Barimalala R., Diasso, U.J., Plessis, M.D., Lamine, S., Nongwe, P.N., Zaroug, M., Ochanda, K.V. 2018. Obstacles facing Africa’s young climate scientists. Nature Climate Change 8:447–449. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0178-x 

  12. Attig Bahar F., Guellouz M.S., Sahraoui M., Kaddeche S., 2015. A Numerical Study of solar chimney power plants in Tunisia .IOP Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser 596 012006. Doi:10.1088/1742-6596/596/1/012006

Preprints

  1. Falk J, Gleick P.H,   Asayama S,   Attig?Bahar F,  Behera S, · von Braun J, ·  Colwell R.R,  Chapagain A.K,   El?Beltagy A.S,  Kennel C.F, ·  Kimoto M,  · Koike T, Konde A.A,  Koundouri P, Abd?Elmabod S.K.M, Lal R,  Lee T.Y,  Murray C.A, Nangia V, Sapkota A,  Saijo T, Serageldin I,  Soussana J.F,  Takara K,  Takeuchi K,  Tran T, Victor D,  Watanabe C, Wheeler K, · Yasunari T. 2023. Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: Addressing an urgent global need. Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. .156-2. 291–297. ISSN 0035-9173/23/020291-07. doi:10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8  

  2. Attig Bahar F., Allali A.,Ritschel U., Akari P., 2019. Green Transition in North Africa: Snapshot on the energy changing landscape in Tunisia and  Morocco. Journal of Atmospheric & Earth Science 3:0013. doi:10.24966/AES-8780/100013

  3. Attig Bahar F., Barimalala R., Dike V., N., Huang-Lachmann J., Langendijk G., Mirsafa M., Osman M., Sonntag S., Young Earth System Scientists Community: Engagement for a Better Future (August 1, 2018).  https://ssrn.com/abstract=3224184

Book Chapter

  1. Mohamed K, Makuku R, Rodríguez-Román E , Aram P , Joya M , Ivanovska M, Makka S, Shahidul I,  Radwan N , Attig-Bahar F, Xiao C, Leander M, Nima R. 2021. A Borderless Solution Is Needed for A Borderless Complexity, Like COVID-19, the Universal Invader. Coronavirus Disease - COVID-19, edited by Prof. Nima Rezaei.Springer Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 1318).DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-63761-3_50      

Technical report, Scientific Blogs  and other manuscripts 

 

 

  1. Troccoli A., Fuchs T., Akentyeva E., Attig Bahar  F., Buontempo C., Gryning S., Huang H., Hong J., Horvath K., Legrand  R., Oludhe C., Osima S.,  Sadoff N., Tazvinga H., Wong W., Zhao  D., & Mora J. (2023). _Integrated Weather and Climate Services in Support of Net Zero Energy Transition (WMO-No. 1312) .https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=22249

  2. Osman M.,  Langendijk G.S.,  Gulizia C.N., Jain S., Rao Y.,  Abid M.A., Saturno J., Attig Bahar F., Rabanal V.(2020)Strategic Action Plan Paving the way for YESS, 2020-2023 and beyond.©Young Earth System Scientists community (YESS) 2019/2020. [Online]: https://www.yess-community.org/yesscomm_wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/YESS-Strategic-Action-Plan.pdf 

  3. Oduor, B.O., Attig Bahar, F., Barimalala, R., Volosciuc, C., Nguedia Nguedoung, A., Koli, M., Kamundala, J., Osinde, A., Awunor, F.G., Elegbede, I., 2019. Sustainable Development in Africa - Shaping the Future of the Continent on Water, Energy and Climate Change Issues (Report). PAUWES. [Online]: http://repository.pauwes-cop.net/handle/1/379 

  1. Attig Bahar F. and  Langendijk . 2021. An early career perspective on the science-policy interface in the decade of climate action following COP26. ISC’s Transform21 series. .[Online] : https://council.science/current/blog/early-career-perspective-on-the-science-policy-interface-climate-action-cop26/    

  2. Attig Bahar F., 2018. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Blog Series, Thoughts on why Africa should switch green: Vision of an early-career scientist from Africa. Future Earth: Research, Innovation Sustainability Blogs. [Online] : https://futureearth.org/2018/09/28/thoughts-on-why-africa-should-switch-green-vision-of-an-early-career-scientist-from-africa/ 

  3. Co-author of 13 articles for the Newsletter of the  Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) which is a project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) since 2018.

[Online]:  https://www.gewex.org/resources/gewex-news/ 

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