Photokinetics: A New Perspective
暫譯: 光動力學：全新的視角

Mounir Maafi is a registered UN consultant/UNIDO international expert, an editor for three journals, and an active peer reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals. He has a versatile research experience that was facilitated by his chemical engineering background and a postgraduate diploma in spectroscopic methods for analyses of materials. His PhD (obtained from Paris 7 University), which focused on storage of sunlight energy in electro-polymers, preluded four postdoctoral positions (France, Spain, Sweden, and the UK) that were held in international institutions, including the Karolinska Institute. He has also been an academic in four European universities, where he mainly taught chemistry, pharmacy, pharmaceutical, and forensic students. Since he joined De Montfort University, he has successfully supervised to completion (as first supervisor) several national and externally funded international Ph.D. and Masters research students. He contributed oral and poster presentations at numerous conferences (where, for some, he was invited to deliver plenary presentations). The research programmes he was involved in required versatile skills in physical and analytical chemistry, mathematics and mathematical modelling of chemical systems, coding and simulation, numerical integration methods, and experimental design. The gathered expertise was pivotal to his research on photokinetics (i.e., kinetics of photoreactions) and actinometry (i.e., determination of the photon flux of a light source). His work was devoted to rationalising photokinetics along the generally established standards of kinetics. He has published in this area numerous papers in reputable (refereed) scientific journals. Almost each of these papers brought a new idea or conceptualisation to the field. Some of the important outcomes of his research included the discovery of the Φ-order kinetics, an unprecedented general explicit integrated rate-law equation to fit any trace of photo- and photothermal reactions, an explanation and solutions for the identifiability issues, mathematical procedures for kinetic elucidation (unravelling all reaction parameters), easy means to prove the variability of the quantum yield with irradiation wavelength, and handy actinometric methods (where he proposed a series of new actinometers). The predictive potential of the new explicit equation for many reaction situations has been proven experimentally and/or by numerically generated data. The research was based on a detailed mathematical framework combining the theoretical equations of photokinetics with mathematical simulations and experimental data. The rationale being that any new concept, formula, or procedure has to be tested by computer-generated data and, as much as possible, be confronted with experiment. The shift of paradigm introduced by his research work in the subject of photokinetics contributes to a rationalisation of the subject and opens alternative avenues for further developments.

Mounir Maafi 是一位註冊的聯合國顧問/聯合國工業發展組織（UNIDO）國際專家，擔任三本期刊的編輯，並且是超過30本科學期刊的活躍同行評審。他擁有多元的研究經驗，這得益於他的化學工程背景以及在材料分析的光譜方法方面的研究生文憑。他的博士學位（獲得於巴黎第七大學）專注於在電聚合物中儲存太陽能，隨後在國際機構中擔任了四個博士後職位（法國、西班牙、瑞典和英國），包括卡羅林斯卡醫學院。他還曾在四所歐洲大學擔任學術職位，主要教授化學、藥學、製藥和法醫學生。自從加入德蒙福特大學以來，他成功地作為第一指導教師，指導多位國內及外部資助的國際博士及碩士研究生完成學業。他在多個會議上發表了口頭和海報報告（其中一些會議邀請他進行專題報告）。他參與的研究計劃需要在物理和分析化學、數學及化學系統的數學建模、編碼和模擬、數值積分方法以及實驗設計方面具備多元技能。所獲得的專業知識對於他在光動力學（即光反應的動力學）和光度測量（即光源的光子通量測定）方面的研究至關重要。他的工作致力於根據一般公認的動力學標準來合理化光動力學。他在這一領域發表了多篇論文於知名（經過審核的）科學期刊。這些論文幾乎每一篇都為該領域帶來了新的想法或概念化。他研究的一些重要成果包括發現了Φ-階動力學，這是一個前所未有的通用顯式整合速率方程，可以適用於任何光反應和光熱反應的痕跡，對可識別性問題的解釋和解決方案，動力學闡明的數學程序（揭示所有反應參數），證明量子產率隨照射波長變化的簡便方法，以及便捷的光度測量方法（他提出了一系列新的光度計）。這個新的顯式方程在許多反應情況下的預測潛力已通過實驗和/或數值生成數據得到證明。該研究基於一個詳細的數學框架，將光動力學的理論方程與數學模擬和實驗數據相結合。其基本原理是任何新的概念、公式或程序都必須通過計算機生成的數據進行測試，並且儘可能與實驗進行對比。他的研究工作在光動力學主題中引入的範式轉變有助於該主題的合理化，並為進一步發展開辟了替代途徑。