Ibrahim is a research fellow on the future of transportation grids by using their infrastructures for multi-functional and multi-stakeholder purposes. The aim is to use existing, high-power transportation infrastructures to provide the much-needed electricity grid capacity (say, for electric vehicles chargers) in typically congested grid areas. His current research is focused on the metro network of Amsterdam, specifically the Noord-Zuid line, and investigating, sizing, and implementing high power DC chargers that can supply the city buses with charging power directly from the metro third rail. This avoids the need for grid infrastructure or contract expansions, and allows the harvesting of otherwise-wasted braking energy from the metro grid.
Ibrahim got his PhD from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in 2023 on a wider scope of this line of research, looking at the trolleybus grid of Arnhem. That research looked at the trolleygrid of the future by implementing renewables, energy storage, EV chargers, residential loads, and new and sophisticated in-motion-charging bus schemes. Prior to that, he received his MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology (TU Delft, 2017) and his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (American University of Beirut, 2012).