My research area of interest is renewable energy. Since energy is the engine of everything that does many works. For my research specifically on Organic Solar Cells’ power conversion performance using Plasmonic Nanoparticles at different layers of inverted Organic solar cells, I am studying the title “Unraveling Plasmon-Coupled Power Conversion Efficiency Enhancement in Wide-Band Gap Polymers-Based Organic Solar Cells: Both Experimental and Computational Approaches” at Addis Ababa University under the supervisors of Prof. Newayemedihin Aberra Tegegn and Dr. Nika Bekri Abdullah from Ethiopia. This study aims to solve the world’s energy problem and the Horn of Africa, which will contribute to the future of the rift specifically Ethiopia because Ethiopia is found in the Horn of Africa and is one of the parts of the rift.

Origin and evolution of the Cameroon Volcanic Line.

ANR MagmAfar (Ethiopia and Djibouti).

My research addresses the role of predation and competition pressure between hominin and carnivore and their fundamental roles in the evolution of the paleoecological status of Hominins (from prey and opportunistic collector to predator).

My research fields include bone assemblages from various chronological phases: Plio-Pleistocene of Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique) and Holocene from Eastern Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti).

Igneous petrology, geochemistry, metamorphic petrology, structural geology, mineralogy, experimental petrology, volcanology…

to study…

…Magma reservoir processes.

Lamya Khalidi is a researcher in archaeology with the French CNRS at the CEPAM laboratory in Nice. A Cambridge University graduate, she has 25 years of experience in Middle East and African archaeology and currently leads the VAPOR-Afar fieldwork project in Ethiopia. Her research examines human-landscape interactions in the context of the development of the first production societies, principally during periods of Neolithization and of the establishment of the first proto-urban societies in the Middle East and in the Horn of Africa. Her research focuses particularly on fingerprinting obsidian circulation to study the dynamics of mobility, contact and exchange in the African Horn and the Arabian Peninsula and the links that existed between these regions, the Middle East and North Africa.

Fieldwork Projects:

• VAPOR-Afar, Ethiopie (dir. L. Khalidi)
• AGXIM TelluS-Rift, Ethiopia (dir. C. Doubre)
• LSA Sequence in Ethiopia, Ethiopia (dir. C. Ménard)
• PSPCA, Republic of Djibouti (dir. J. Cauliez)
• Kadrouka, Sudan (dir. O. Langlois, Ph. Chambon, P. Sellier)

Research Projects:

• 2021 – in progress: Partenaire dans l’ANR ‘Nilafar’ (PI M. Revel)
• 2021: UCAJedi Idex ‘CORETEX’ (PI L. Khalidi, M. Gabriele)

My area of interest is mainly concerned with ‘Use of fuel for metallurgical and domestic activities in medieval and contemporary periods: the case of Konso region, South Ethiopia’. Konso is the perfect region to study the use of fuel in a diachronic and interdisciplinary approach. Traditional iron smelting is a vanishing tradition in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa. It is, thus, very important to document such a vanishing tradition before its complete disappearance. The study will also help us understand the culture-history of iron technology in the region and reconstruct the pre-medieval and medieval palaeoenvironment of the region through anthracological, archaeobotanical, and ethnoarchaeological approaches.