Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Biography

Amal Al Ghaferi is the first National Faculty member at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. She is an Assistant Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering program. She got her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, Pa, USA. She got a 2009 UK Prime Minister’s Initiative award, PMI2, which is a Research Co-operation Funding program between UK and UAE, and she got the 2009 Women in Science and Technology Fellowship from US Department of state . In additional to that, Dr. Al Ghaferi won two of Sheikh Rashid Scientific Distinction Awards one in 2000 and the other in 2007. Dr. Al Ghaferi research interest is in Nanotechnology and how to implement the nanomaterials in potential applications for UAE. Dr. Al Ghaferi had more than 20 publications in this field. Prior joining Masdar Insatiate of Science and Technology, Dr. Al Ghaferi was an assistant Professor at the Physics Department at UAE University in Al Ain, where she got her academic experience in teaching fundamental and advance courses in Physics. Teaching and interacting with students had inspired Dr. Al Ghaferi to support women in the field of Science and Engineering in Middle East. Dr. Al Ghaferi has great interest in Women in Science. She was the organizer of Women in Science workshop at Masdar Institute in 2010 with US Department of State and University of Michigan Dearborn. Also she had played important role in organizing The Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) women's initiative which was part of the 2nd clean energy ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi.

Abstract

Abstract : Real-time graphene based scale monitoring smart sensor systems