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Overview

The Advanced Research Centre is a unique facility for the region which is dedicated to the design and discovery of new materials and technologies, and to devising solutions to society’s pressing challenges. We are a team of creative researchers who work together in a collaborative and transdisciplinary environment, applying new ways of thinking to complex questions and innovating novel applications for new technologies. Our centre is comprised of three distinct but complementary divisions: Foundational Science Research, Advanced Materials & Applications and the Collaborative Research User Facility.

Foundational Science Research

Focusing on curiosity-driven research, our mission is to advance the frontiers of science and to produce world-class, high-impact fundamental research. This division pursues a multidisciplinary research agenda based around themes that are at the forefront of modern scientific research.

Research Units

Biosynthesis & Biocatalysis

Biosynthesis & Biocatalysis

Using synthetic biology to re-engineer organisms that produce self-assembled biopolymers and bio-inspired polymers for a variety of applications

 

Advanced Materials & Applications

We combine mission-driven research with engineering-based solutions to create practical technologies that benefit society. Building upon findings from the Foundational Science Research Division, we translate abstract ideas into real-world applications.

Research Units

Emerging Pollutants

Emerging Pollutants

Investigating the movement of specific pharmaceutical compounds to water and the food chain, and developing sustainable treatment systems using natural adsorbents

 

Collaborative Research User Facility

This is a knowledge-based user facility that connects Jordan’s science, technology, and research communities with expert staff and cutting-edge instrumentation, catalysing scientific discovery in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. Our facility unites basic and applied science research, testing and analysis, and industrial application. Currently under development, we are accepting requests for instrument time, consultation, or collaboration in the following areas:

Our Divisions

Imaging

Instrumentation, techniques, and expertise for exceptionally high-resolution imaging and analytical characterisation of materials

Molecular Graphics & Computation

Research resource in computational chemistry and scientific visualisation with high-performance computational equipment and expertise

Microanalytical Spectroscopy

World-class spectroscopic instrumentation for understanding, quantifying, and manipulating matter at a microscopic level

Crystallography

Advanced X-ray diffractometers for determining solid-state molecular structure of crystalline samples

Publications

Assessment of novel hybrid treatment wetlands as nature-based solutions for pharmaceutical industry wastewater treatment

19 June 2025

Growers’ irrigation practices, knowledge, trust, and attitudes toward wastewater reuse in Lebanon, Jordan, and Tunisia through a food safety lens

19 June 2025

Treatment of pharmaceutical industry wastewater for water reuse in Jordan using hybrid constructed wetlands

19 June 2025
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