1- Energy Convection and Storage 

2- Electrocatalysis (HER, OER, ORR, CO2RR, etc)

3- DFT and Interpretable ML for functional materials design, discovery and synthesis

4- New Material Frontiers through GenAI

5- Deep Materials Characterization 

Laboratory Calculations (CH4021)

Ibrahim is a Materials Scientist and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Bernal Institute/UL, where his research focuses on the synthesis and development of advanced functional nanomaterials for Next-Generation Metal-Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems and Electrocatalysis (HER, OER, ORR, and CoRR processes). Ibrahim earned his BSc in Materials Engineering from KNUST-Ghana, in 2008, and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, specializing in New Energy Materials and Devices, from Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT)-China in 2017. Following a brief postdoctoral fellowship at WHUT, he joined the Bernal Institute/UL as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, to investigate porous graphitic cathodes for application in aluminum-ion batteries (GAIBs: 2018–2020).

In 2021, Ibrahim was awarded an SFI-Industry Research & Innovation Fund to lead the "FAMASES" project on “Selective Delayering of Low-Geometry Materials by Plasma FIB Dx Chemistry for Failure Analysis of Magnetic Sensors” at Analog Devices International, Limerick, leading to the First in Industry Development of FIB-based Polyfuse Delayering Process. In 2023, he secured funding for an SFI-IRC Pathway Project to develop functionalized carbon nanofibers for aluminum-ion batteries and related applications (CANFIBAT). He also received Enterprise Development funding from the Nexus Innovation Centre/KBS, Enterprise Ireland and SFI for further research and entrepreneurship. Beyond independent funding, Ibrahim has contributed to major collaborative projects, including with Prof. Kevin M Ryan (Project Lead) on Horizon Europe funding for the SiGNE project for the development of composite Si NW/Graphite Anodes for EV batteries(2022) and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) funded project on "Closing the energy loop through reuse, recover and recycle for the continuous use of battery energy" (R-CUBE).

Complementing his scientific expertise, Ibrahim pursued advanced studies in Data Science and Analytics from the Data Science Institute, Cork (2024) and  Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Limerick (2025), Ireland. In addition to his research, Ibrahim is involved in teaching, serving as module leader for Fundamental Laboratory Calculations (CH4021) in the Department of Chemical Sciences/UL. He has published several research articles obtaining an h-index of 40 (Google Scholar ).

Ibrahim's current research focuses on the synthesis of advanced functional nanomaterials for battery energy storage systems, with an emphasis on leveraging DFT, Data-driven Methods and Machine Learning (ML) to drive innovation in addressing complex research challenges.