Noureddine Abidi is the Davis College Associate Dean for Research and managing director of the Texas Tech’s Fiber & Biopolymer Research Institute. His research has focused on the creation of antimicrobial textiles, self-cleaned textiles, the physicochemical characterization of pollen shells, cell wall development in cotton fibers, and the transformation of cellulose to bioproducts. Abidi has published 137 peer-review publications and generated 3 approved patents and nine pending patents.

Recent honors include being named a Senior Member by the National Academy of Inventors (2024); President’s Innovation Starup Award (2023); Accelerator Fund Award (2023); TTU Innovation Hub at Research Park Prototype Fund Award (2022);  the President’s Excellence in Commercialization Award (2021), and the Discover Natural Fibres Initiative Innovation Award (2020) for his work and the patent received for his discovery of changing low-grade cotton to a cellulose gel that can be used in a wide variety of ways. He holds a doctorate in theoretical, physical, and analytical chemistry from the University of Montpellier II in France. 

CONTACT: Noureddine Abidi, Associate Dean for Research, Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2808 or noureddine.abidi@ttu.edu  

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