Dalia Abdelfattah

Associate Professor of Technology, Agricultural technology and systems

Research

Projects:

2024 – 2027, FORMAS, Sweden, Team member: Plant Protein Nanofibrils: The Eco-Friendly Food Stabilizer of the Future

2022 – 2025, FORMAS, Sweden, Team member: A strong pulse - resilient Swedish grain legume supply from field and factory to fork

2021 - 2024, FORMAS, Sweden, PI/Main applicant: Forest based biofuels for Arctic marine shipping (BioArctic)(Project website)

2021 - 2022, SLU Global, Global Challenges University Alliance(GCUA 2030)
Co-applicant: Determinants and impacts of urban agriculture on household food security & resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from South Africa and Uganda

2020-2023, FORMAS, Sweden, Team member: Potential of selective harvest based on mycotoxins content assessment in cereal crops.

2020 - 2021, Arcum, Sweden, PI/Main applicant: Assessing the environmental benefits of forestry based biofuels for Arctic Marine Shipping

2020 -2021, SNS and participating organisations, Team member: Forest related Life Cycle Assessment Network

2019 – 2020, Arcum, Sweden, PI/Main applicant: Applying system level thinking for Artic sustainability

2019 – 2020, ÅForsk, Sweden, Co-applicant: Technologies for Promoting Sustainable and Circular Economy Startups Sewage Sludge Derived Biochar as Filler Material for Manufacturing of Composites

2019 – 2020, Bio4Energy, Sweden, Co-applicant: Valorization of pulp and paper mill ashes and sludge by a two-step treatment approach – A feasibility study

2019 – 2020, Bio4Energy, Sweden, Team member: Life cycle assessment of bark as a feedstock for biorefiney systems

2019 – 2020, Bio4Energy, Sweden, Team member: Environmental assessment of different processes for biomethanol production in Sweden

2017 – 2020, FORMAS, Sweden, Team member: Integrated conversion of forest residues into methane and carbonized biobased materials (INFORMAT)

2017, Alexandria Research Centre for Adaptation, Egypt - Canada, CO-PI: Towards sustainable potato production under climate change conditions,  https://suspo.webs.com/

Teaching

2025 – Current

Course title: Advanced Life cycle assessment (LCA) 7.5 hp

Targeted students: PhD students and professionals specialized in LCA

Course responsibility: Course leader responsible for managing the quality and delivery of your course in collaboration with the course partners Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Swedish Life Cycle Center (SLC), Chalmers University of Technology, Luleå university of technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology

2021–2024

Course title: Life cycle assessment, TN0313 HT2021, 

Targeted students: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden

Course responsibility: Supervising the project work of the students, advice and guide them through project work, assess the project reports and grade them. 

2022

Course title: Sustainable food waste management systems, 

Targeted students: undergraduate students at Helioplis University of sustainable development, Egypt.

Course responsibility: develop teaching materials to introduce life cycle assessment (LCA) as a tool for sustainable waste management and teach it to targeted students.

2015 – 2018
Course title: Ethics of responsible conduct of research

Targeted students: postgraduates and staff members from different universities in Egypt

Course responsibility: develop course materials and teach the research misconduct of plagiarism, fabrication and falsification and how to avoid them. 

Recent publications

1)    Dalia M. M. Yacout, Khalil HH and Yacout MM (2025) Climate change impacts on Egyptian aquaculture: challenges, opportunities, and research gaps. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 9:1527798. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1527798.

2)    Venkata K.K. Upadhyayula, Dalia M.M. Yacout, Kenneth G. Latham, Stina Jansson, Ulrika, Rova, Paul Christakopoulos, Leonidas Matsakas. 2025. Organosolv Lignin Carbon Fibers and Their Application in Wind Turbine Blades: An Environmental Performance Assessment. J. of Cleaner Production, 144825, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.144825

3)    Dalia M. M. Yacout, Mats Tysklind, Venkata K.K. Upadhyayula. 2024. The socio-economic implications of forest-based biofuels for marine transportation in the Arctic: Sweden as a case study. Frontiers in Climate, 6:1414813. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2024.1414813 

4)    H. Karlsson Potter; D.M.M Yacout, K. Henryson, 2023. Climate Assessment of Vegetable Oil and Biodiesel from Camelina Grown as an Intermediate Crop in Cereal-Based Crop Rotations in Cold Climate Regions. Sustainability, 15, 12574. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151612574 

5)    Anup Rana, Leandro Cid Gomes, João S. Rodrigues, Dalia M. M. Yacout, et al., 2022. A combined photobiological-photochemical route to C10 cycloalkane jet fuels from carbon dioxide via isoprene. Journal of Green Chemistry. DOI: 10.1039/D2GC03272D. 

6)    Venkata K.K. Upadhyayula, et al., D.M.M. Yacout. 2022. Wind Turbine Blades Using Recycled Carbon Fibers: An Environmental Assessment. Environmental Science & Technology. 56, 2, 1267–1277, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05462 

7)    Dalia M. M. Yacout, Mats Tysklind, Venkata K.K. Upadhyayula. 2021. Assessment of forest-based biofuels for Arctic marine shipping, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 174, 105763, ISSN 0921-3449, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105763 

8)    Rabia, A.H., A.A.A. Mohamed, E.F. Abdelaty, S.F. Shahin, and D.M.M. Yacout. 2021. Investigating Adaptation Strategies Developed by Potato Farmers to Cope with Climate Change Impacts in Egypt. Alexandria Science Exchange Journal 42, 871-881. DOI: https://10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2021.205325.

9)    Dalia M. M. Yacout, Pooja Yadav, Dimitris Athanassiadis, Mats Tysklind and Venkata Krishna K Upadhyayula. 2020.  Chapter 8 - An evaluation of different climate matrices used in biomass energy research. Current technologies in biotechnology and bioengineering, Elsevier. Pages 179-204, ISBN: 9780444643094 

10)Ivan Kozyatnyk, Dalia M. M. Yacout, Jo von Caneghem, Stina Jansson. Comparative environmental assessment of end-of-life carbonaceous water treatment adsorbents. Bioresource Technology 302 (2020) 1228662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.122866  

11)Pooja Yadav, Dimitris Athanassiadis, Dalia M. M. Yacout, Mats Tysklind and Venkata K.K. Upadhyayula. 2020. Environmental Impact and Environmental Cost Assessment of Methanol Production from Wood Biomass. Journal of Environmental Pollution. 265(Pt A):114990 

Supervision

Several PhD and Master Students