Detailed Priority Lists

The list below includes samples of research areas relevant to Qatar’s national needs. QNRF compiled this initial list based on an internal study of Qatar’s research needs commissioned by Qatar Foundation after consultation with a variety of relevant stakeholders in Qatar. This list is not an exhaustive list of the topics that QNRF may fund, and adherence to this list is not tied to the Peer Review (PR) process. The list is meant to help researchers visualize topics of interest to Qatar and is a work in progress to be supplemented and refined in subsequent funding cycles. Proposals in other research areas that are deemed as important to Qatar are welcomed and encouraged.

INDUSTRY & ENGINEERING

  • Energy/Oil &Gas/Petrochemicals
    • LNG transportation and economics
    • Robotics in hostile environments
    • Enhanced oil recovery
    • Utilization of sulfur
    • Reservoir modeling
    • Gas-to-Liquids process and economics
    • Process heat utilization
    • Gas flaring
    • Alternative energy
    • Fuel cells
    • Energy efficiency
    • Electricity demand management
    • Resource sustainability
    • Fluid separation
    • Carbon dioxide capture from flue gas
    • Production of gas hydrate as a means of gas utilization
    • Sea transportation of compressed natural gas
    • Improve oil and gas extraction efficiency
    • Remediation (pollutants and byproducts)
  • Materials
    • Corrosion
    • Non-destructive testing
    • Catalysis
    • Advanced polymers
    • Recycling
    • Alloys for high salinity environment
    • New materials and nanotechnology
  • Aviation Operations
    • Airport efficiency
    • Logistics management
    • Training
    • Failure analysis

ENVIRONMENT

  • Water
    • Supply
    • Distribution
    • Quality
    • Security
    • Desalination
    • Reuse and Irrigation
    • Importation
    • Cooling water
    • Water produced from oil and gas operation
    • Waste water management, treatment, reuse
  • Air
    • Quality
    • Reduce stack emission
    • Ozone formation and level
  • Soil & Ecosystem
    • Coastal and terrestrial ecosystems
    • High salinity marine ecology
    • Geospatial systems
    • Health effects of environmental pollutants
    • Biodiversity
    • Desertification
    • Impact of land reclamation

COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • Computing on a national level
  • Oil and gas data mining
  • Integrated GIS graphic information systems
  • Cyber security
  • Robotics
  • Networks
  • Language translation
  • Wireless networking
  • Media
  • National digital roadmap

HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES

  • Diabetes
  • Obesity
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Women’s and children's health
  • Genomic factors on health of individuals and population
  • Cancer (breast, hematological, colon, and malignancies)
  • Health and environmental pollution

EDUCATION

  • E-learning
  • Open systems
  • Distance learning
  • Virtual classrooms
  • Software
  • Methods and Systems

PUBLIC POLICY & MANAGEMENT

  • Economic diversification
  • Econometrics
  • Intellectual property protection
  • Risk management and industrial safety
  • Growth management
  • Urban and regional planning, sustainable cities, population dynamics
  • Media
  • Aviation operations
  • Technology innovation and commercialization
  • Advancement of women
  • Operations research
  • Enterprise risk management
  • Leadership, organizational behavior, communication
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Management in Qatar

ARTS & HUMANITIES

  • Design
  • Shari'ah
  • Ethics of new technologies

SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Regional history, culture and law
  • Regional political science
  • East/West understanding
  • Behavior modification
  • Diet and exercise
  • Motivation
  • Conflict resolution