BEN CHIEKH MAHER

Professor

Name : BEN CHIEKH MAHER

Assignment establishment : ENIM

Email : maher.benchiekh@enim.rnu.tn

Function: Director of the laboratory LESTE

Orcid : 0000-0002-7634-6847

Biography

Maher Ben Chiekh is a Professor at the National Engineering School of Monastir (ENIM), part of the University of Monastir, Tunisia. He has more than twenty years of experience in teaching and research in the fields of fluid mechanics and energy systems. Since 2021, he has served as Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Thermal and Energy Systems (LESTE, LR99ES31), where he leads the laboratory’s strategic scientific activities and supervises several multidisciplinary research projects.

His research activities cover a broad range of topics, including advanced energy systems, experimental and computational fluid mechanics, renewable energy, green hydrogen technologies, and biomedical applications.

Prof. Ben Chiekh has coordinated and co-coordinated several large-scale research initiatives, including the consortium project “Technology and Economics of Green Hydrogen for an Energy and Ecological Transition in Tunisia” and the Horizon Europe program on energy systems modeling, OpenMO4Africa. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in international journals and regularly contributes to scientific committees while supervising PhD candidates and young researchers.

He has also completed several specialized training programs in energy transition and green hydrogen technologies, including multiple study visits to international laboratories and industrial facilities dedicated to green hydrogen production.

Activities

Doctorates Supervision :

Defended:

  • Rafika Ben Haj Slama, 2018, Flow Generated in a Fluid Medium by a Focused Ultrasound Wave: Acoustic Streaming and Solid Particle Flow.

Co-supervised thesis with prof. Jean-Christophe Béra (University of Lyon 1).

Link: https://www.theses.fr/226213293

  • Ameni Trigui, 2021, Study of Flows in Stenosed Arteries. Thesis at the University of Monastir.
  • Mouna Guizani (2026) High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Control of Flows in a Pipe.

Co-supervised thesis with prof. Jean-Christophe Béra (University of Lyon 1).

Link: https://theses.hal.science/tel-05543663v1

In progress

  • Marwa Bedoui (2022-) Numerical investigation of the large-scale coherent structures between two parallel fins

Research grants

?    2022–2025: PHC-UTIQUE Tunisia-France, Ultrasonic mixing in stenotic flow – feasibility for iliac artery treatment. Co-Investigator with Prof. Béra (INSERM Lyon, France)
?    2024–2027: National Research Consortium CDR2024ES03 (TEC-H2), Green Hydrogen Technology and Economics for Energy Transition in Tunisia
?    2024–2025: Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-02, OM4A-Tunisia: Open Modelling Toolbox for Long-Term Energy Pathways in Tunisia.
?    2025–2027: Interreg NEXT Italy–Tunisia cross-border cooperation project:  Laboratory of Excellence for Green Hydrogen Energy Conversion and Utilization (LAB-PtH2)
?    2025–2027: Erasmus+ Coordinator, University of Monastir, Green Hydrogen Skills for Mediterranean Higher Education (H2skillsMED – 101237911)