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Humanities
Anthropology
Reem Saad
Title: Associate Professor
Email: reemsaad@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51870
Areas of Interest: Rural Egypt; historical anthropology; public culture; and ethnographic film. For more information, click here
Soraya Altorki
Title: Professor of Anthropology
Email: saltorki@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51873
Areas of Interest: Gender; anthropology of religion; tourism and heritage studies; Saudi Arabia; Arab world; Muslim world and the Middle East. For more information, click here
Arabic Language and Literature
Mona Mikhail
Title: Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies
Email: monan@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51779
Areas of Interest: Arabic literature in a comparative context; political, social and cultural dimensions of the Arab East and North Africa; and the literature produced in the Diaspora ( North America, Europe) in the twentieth century. For more information, click here
Samia Mehrez
Title: Director of the Center for Translation Studies
Email: samehrez@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.56116 / +2.02.261.51312
Areas of Interest: Modern Arabic literature; postcolonial literature; translation studies; gender studies and cultural studies. For more information, click here
Gender and Women Studies
Hania Sholkamy
Title: Research Associate Professor at the Social Research Center
Email: hanias@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51313
Areas of Interest: Health (particularly reproductive health); gender; and population and qualitative methods.
Martina Rieker
Title: Director of Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies
Email: mrieker@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51388
Areas of Interest: Gender and the women’s studies after the MDG’s; the girl child: liberal subjectivity revisited; and critical urbanism. For more information, click here
History
Amina Elbendary
Title: Assistant Professor of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Email: abendary@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51769
Areas of Interest: Social and cultural history of the Arab Middle East; Arab-Islamic historiography; Islamic political thought; medieval and early modern popular culture; and gender history. For more information, click here
Hanan Kholoussy
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: hkholoussy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51811
Areas of Interest: Nationalism, marriage, law, and gender. For more information, click here
Michael Reimer
Title: Associate Professor of history
Email: mjreimer@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51810
Areas of Interest: Modern Middle Eastern history, i.e. the historiography of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, especially Egyptian views of the Ottoman past; municipal administration, waqf foundations and the dynamics of local politics in Transjordan, as a part of the broader history of cities and towns of the Middle East; the intellectual history of the modern Islamic world, especially Islamic modernism and its critics; and the history of Zionism, especially Zionism's perspective on Jewish relations with the Palestinian Arabs. For more information click here
Nelly Hanna
Title: Distinguished University Professor
Email: nhanna@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51772
Areas of Interest: Ottoman history of the Arab world (1500-1800) with special focus on the economic, social and cultural aspects of this period. For more information, click here
Egyptology
Fayza Haikal
Title: Professor of Egyptology
Email: fhaikal@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51841. For more information, click here
Lisa Sabbahy
Title: Assistant Professor of Egyptology
Email: lsabbahy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51839
Areas of Interest: Queens of the Old and Middle Kingdoms; health and disease in ancient and modern Egypt; New Kingdom cemetery material, particularly anthropoid clay coffins; and the position and status of ancient Egyptian women. For more information, click here
Mariam Ayad
Title: Associate Professor
Email: m.ayad@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52077
Areas of Interest: Social history and religion in the Third Intermediate and Late Periods; Transmission and layout of Egyptian funerary texts on New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period monuments; the Status and Iconography of women in ancient Egypt; the role of ancient Egyptian women in temple ritual; the significance of the titles Gods Wife of Amun and God's Hand; Egyptian grammar and language (Old Egyptian through Coptic); survivals of ancient Egyptian idioms in modern colloquial Egyptian Arabic; Epigraphy. For more information, click here.
Salima Ikram
Title: Professor of Egyptology
Email: salima@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51840
Areas of Interest: Mummification (human and animal); funerary archaeology; bioarchaeology (particularly archaeozoology); experimental and ethnoarchaeology; and heritage management. For more information, click here
English and Comparative Literature
Amy Moltagh
Title: Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Email: amoltagh@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51634
Areas of Interest: Modern and classical literary traditions of the Persephone world, the cultural production of the Iranian Diaspora and comparative studies of the modern narrative traditions of the Middle East. For more information, click here
Ferial Ghazoul
Title: Professor of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and Chair
Email: fghazoul@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51629
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature (European and Middle Eastern), gender studies; Arabic, African, and French literature and Postcolonial Theory. For more information, click here
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Title: Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Email: tgnasser@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51627
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial literature and literary theory; modern Latin American and Arabic literature; world literature and translation studies. For more information, click here
Islamic Studies
Mohamed Serag
Title: Professor
Email: mohserag@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51740
Performing and Visual Arts
Art
Bahia Shehab
Title: Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Email: bahia@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51226
Areas of Interest: Visual culture of the Arab world; cultural heritage and Fatimid Kufic inscriptions on portable items in the Mediterranean basin and beyond. For more information, click here
Shady El Noshokaty
Title: Associate Professor of Practice
Email: elnoshokaty@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51223
Areas of Interest: media arts, visual arts, drawing and painting. For more information, click here
Cinema
Malek Khouri
Title: Professor and Director of Film Program
Email: mkhouri@aucegypt.du
Phone: +20.2.261.51225
Areas of Interest: Film theory and critical analysis, history, genres, and Arab and Egyptian cinemas. For more information, click here
Music
John Baboukis
Title: Assistant Professor and Director of Music Program
Email: baboukis@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51247
Areas of Interest: Music history and performance of medieval and renaissance music. For more information, click here
Theater
Mahmoud El Lozy
Title: Professor and Director, Theatre Program
Email: ellozy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51243
For more information, click here
Psychology
Hani Henry
Title: Associate Professor of Psychology
Email: hhenry@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51836
Areas of Interest: The empowerment of Egyptian women; the process of loss and mourning; immigration and acculturation; multiculturalism and diversity and models of cultural and racial identity. For more information, click here
Mona Amer
Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Email: monaamer@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51832
Areas of Interest: Minority mental health, with a specialization in the Arab and Muslim American minorities. For more information, click here
Sociology
Helen Rizo
Title: Associate Professor of Sociology and SOAN Graduate Advisor
Email: hrizzo@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51869
Areas of Interest: Political sociology (focus on democratization); development in the Middle East and stratification (emphasizing gender and race/ethnicity). For more information, click here
Malak Rouchdy
Title: Assistant Professor Sociology and Head of Sociology Unit
Email: mrouchdy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51868
Areas of Interest: Food politics and culture, gender studies, collective memory, development and poverty, rural relations and education. For more information, click here
Mona Abaza
Title: Professor of Sociology
Email: moabaza@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51872
Areas of Interest: Religious and cultural networks between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia, and consumer culture and the art market in Egypt. For more information, click here
Education
Malak Zaalouk
Title: Professor of Practice, Associate Dean and Director of the Middle East Institute for Higher Education
Email: mz@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.615.1369
Areas of Interest: Political economy of reform and social change; gender; education and development; empowerment; participation and development; liberation education; comparative education; quality education; community participation and education; transitions from school to life. For more information. click here
Nagwa Megahed
Title: Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Comparative and International Research Initiative
Email: nmegahed@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.615.4751
Areas of Interest: education development; reform of education policy and practice; teachers and teacher education; education and Islam; gender and education in the Middle East and North Africa. For more information, click here
Economy
Accounting
Ahmed Abdel Meguid
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: a_meguid@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53288
Areas of Interest: Auditor industry specialization; audit quality and corporate governance. For more information, click here
Khaled Samaha
Title: Associate Professor
Email: ksamaha@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.2342
Areas of Interest: Harmonization of accounting standards; compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); accounting in developing countries; international accounting education; financial reporting on the Internet; the use of analytical procedures in auditing; and corporate governance and financial reporting. For more information, click here
Economics
Adel Beshai
Title: Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Email: aabeshai@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53224
Areas of Interest: Egyptian economy; economics of food and agriculture; globalization old and new and quantitative international economics. For more information, click here
Ahmed Kamaly
Title: Associate Professor
Email: kamaly@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53246
Areas of Expertise: Determinants and dynamics of capital flows; monetary policy; Central Bank independence; currency and banking crises; exchange rate regimes and arrangements and sources of economic growth and total factor productivity. For more information, click here
Hala El Ramly
Title: Associate Professor
Email: helramly@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53249
Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics and international monetary economics and income convergence among Arab countries. For more information, click here
Nagla Rizk
Title: Associate Professor
Email: naglarzk@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53303
Areas of Interest: Economics of knowledge; information technology and development, with focus on business models in the digital economy; intellectual property and human development. For more information, click here
Finance
Aliaa Bassiouny
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: aliaa@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53442
Areas of Interest: Business finance; investment analysis; portfolio management and international finance. For more information, click here
Eskander Tooma
Title: Associate Professor
Email: etooma@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53472
Areas of Interest: Financial economics; volatility dynamics and forecasting in emerging stock markets; asset pricing; portfolio theory and stock market regulations. For more information, click here
Islam Azzam
Title: Associate Professor
Email: iazzam@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53268
Areas of Interest: Finance; corporate finance; investment analysis and international finance. For more information, click here
Medhat Hassanein
Title: Professor
Email: medhaths@aucegypt.edu
Phone:202.261.53272
Areas of Interest: Policy analysis with extensive experience in institutional building; macro-policy analysis; financial economics; corporate finance and international financial management; fiscal and monetary policy; finance and banking; macroeconomic reform, privatization; capital markets and the extra-legal economy in Egypt. For more information, click here
Management
Ayman Ismail
Title: Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship
Email: aymanism@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53279
Areas of Interest: Entrepreneurship. For more information, click here
Iman Seoudi
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: iman.seoudi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53317
Areas of Interest: Strategic and general management; entrepreneurship; and business ethics and dynamic capabilities of business firms in general, and specifically of Egyptian software firms. For more information, click here
Maha ElShinnawy
Title: Professor; Director of Goldman Sachs Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Program (WEL)
Email: mshinnawy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52373
Areas of Interest: Leadership; organizational change; group dynamics; and communication and ethics in organizations. For more information, click here
Mohga Badran
Title: Professor and Chair of the Department of Management
Email: mabadran@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53279 /+20.2.261.53365
Areas of Interest: Management of change; management of conflict; and learning organizations and human resource management. For more information, click here
Management of Information Systems
Dina Rateb
Title: Associate Professor and Director of Business Computer Center
Email: dfr@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53283
Areas of Interest: Database management; decision support systems; enterprise resource planning (ERP); ecosystems; accounting information systems; financial information systems; and marketing information systems and systems analysis and design. For more information, click here
Marketing
Ahmed Tolba
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: ahmedtolba@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53415
Areas of Interest: Strategic brand management; brand equity measurement; models; marketing research; and global branding and nation branding. For more information, click here
Ibrahim Hegazy
Title: Associate Professor
Email: hegazy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53274
Areas of Interest: International marketing; marketing management; marketing communications management, marketing research, principles of marketing; and e-marketing and advertising principles. For more information, click here
Politics
Political Science
Abdel Aziz Ezzelarab
Title: Professor of Political Economy
Email: ezelarab@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51907
Areas of Interest: Economic history of the Middle East; economics of Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries; and political economy of development and project evaluation. For more information, click here
Ashraf El-Sherif
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: aelsherif@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51963
Areas of Interest: Political Islam; Islamic movements; religious public sphere; ideological politics; and state-society relations and democratic transition in the Middle East.
Bahgat Korany
Title: Professor and Director of AUC Forum
Email: koranyb@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51381
Areas of Interest: Globalization and governance; theories of international order; and the political economy of reform in the Middle East. For more information, click here
Gamal Soltan
Title: Visiting Associate Professor
Email: gsoltan@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51944
Areas of Interest: Regional dynamics of Middle East politics; inter-Arab relations; identity politics; nationalism and ideologies in the Middle East; and Egyptian foreign policy. For more information, click here
Ibrahim Elnur
Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: ielnur@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261. 51549
Areas of Interest: Development and international political economy; population dynamics with emphasis on migration-development nexus; public policy; and economics of education, health, and war and reconstruction. For more information, click here
Maye Kassem
Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: mayekasem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51530
Areas of Interest: Comparative Middle East politics. For more information, click here
Rabab El Mahdi
Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: relmahdi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51899
Areas of Interest: Comparative political economy of Latin American and the Middle East (state-civil society relations); social movements and resistance; women's movements; and democratic transitions. For more information, click here
Sharif Elmusa
Title: Associate Professor
Email: selmusa@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51953
Areas of Interest: Hydro-politics; technology and development; environmental politics; and politics of foreign aid.
Walid Kazziha
Title: Professor of Political science
Email: wkazziha@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.51902
Areas of Interest: Arab political thought; inter-Arab relations; Egyptian politics; Arab Israeli conflict; and Middle East and the great powers. For more information, click here
Javid Maswood
Title: Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: Javedmaswood@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.2615.1953
Areas of Interest: International Political Economy, Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Economic Security and Globalization. For more information, click here
Law
Amr Ahmed Shalakany
Title: Associate Professor
Email: shalakany@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53385
Areas of Interest: Comparative private law and legal theory; Islamic law and historiography; and law and social thought. For more information, click here
Hani Sayed
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: hsayed@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53277
Areas of Interest: Law and economic development; international economic law; and legal and political theory. For more information, click here
Migration and Refugee Studies
Ibrahim Awad
Title: Professor of Practice/ Director of Center for Migration and Refugees Studies.
Email: iawad@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53326
Areas of Interest: Political economy; employment; international labor migration; human and labor rights; international relations; international organization and regional integration. For more information, click here
Usha Natarajan
Title: Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
Email: unatarajan@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53204
Areas of Interest: Third World and postcolonial approaches to international law; law and development; sustainable development; refugee and migration law. For more information, click here.
Public Policy
Ghada Barsoum
Title: Associate Professor
Email: gbarsoum@aucegypt.edu
Areas of Interest: Youth inclusive policies; employment and social protection; youth employment programs and evaluation research. For more information, click here.
Hamid Ali
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: hali@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53351
Areas of Interest: Military spending; fiscal policy; and inequality and economic development. For more information, click here
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Title: Associate Professor
Email: sbhuiyan@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53384
Areas of Interest: Governance; public management; public policy; social capital and sustainable development and nonprofit management. For more information, click here.
Sciences and Engineering
Architectural Engineering
Ahmed Sherif
Title: Professor and founding chair of the Department of Architecture
Email: asherif@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52623
Areas of Interest: Architectural design and construction, with emphasis on hospital and public buildings design. For more information, click here
Khaled Tarabieh
Title: Assistant professor
Email: ktarabieh@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52603
Areas of Interest: Thermal performance of building envelope materials for residential buildings in Egypt; Internet of things (IOT) Prototype development for smart building systems; Development of thermally efficient, light and cost effective building materials for Agile buildings; and Carbon offsets and footprint accounting for educational buildings. For more information, click here
Magda Mostafa
Title: Associate professor of design and associate chair of the Department of Architecture
Email: m_mostafa@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52618
Areas of Interest: Special needs and inclusive design; and design pedagogy. For more information, click here
Nagwa Sherif
Title: Professor
Email: nsherif@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52619
Areas of Interest: Architectural Engineering, Interior Design , and Human Needs in Architectural design. For more information, click here
Computer Science and Engineering
Amr El-Kadi
Title: Professor and Chair
Email: elkadi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52988
Areas of Interest: Operating systems; distributed systems; software engineering; computer networks; and computer architecture. For more information, click here
Mikhail Mikhail
Title: Professor
Email: Mikhail@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52996
Areas of Interest: All aspects of computer communications and networks. For more information, click here
Sherif El-Kassas
Title: Professor
Email: sherif@aucegypt.edu
Areas of Interest: security management, the application of formal methods in software engineering and computer security, and open source technologies. For more information, click here.
Construction Engineering
Hani Sewilam
Title: Professor
Email: sewilam@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53071
Areas of Interest: Sustainable development and natural resources management; safe wastewater use in agriculture; artificial intelligence modeling; decision support systems; and integrated water resources management. For more information, click here
Mohamed Naguib Abou Zeid
Title: Professor and Chair
Email: mnagiba@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52624/+20.2.261.52516
Areas of Interest: Mechanical properties and durability of construction materials; use of industrial by-products such as silica fume, fly ash, and slag in construction; urban development and enhancement of construction aspects and technical education; and vocational training and human resources development aspects. For more information, click here
Samer Ezeldin
Title: Professor and chair of the Department of Construction Engineering
Email: aezeldin@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52631
Areas of Interest: Computer software for construction projects delay analysis; life-cycle cost analysis: Computer aided tools; neural networks for construction engineering applications; risk management for construction projects; dynamic programming for time-cost trade-off problems of project schedules with repetitive sub-projects and quality management system models. For more information, click here
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Ali Darwish
Title: Professor and Chair
Email: adarwish@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53048
Areas of Interest: New Product Development (NPD); water and energy conservation; thermal effects in microelectronics; wide bandgap semiconductor materials; and novel concepts in Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuits (MMICs). For more information, click here
Ayman Elezabi
Title: Associate Professor and Chair of Electronics and Engineering
Email: aelezabi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +2.02.261.53054/+20.2.261.53048
Areas of Interest: Signal processing for wireless communications; low-complexity receiver algorithms; interference suppression for wireless systems; cognitive radio and smart grids. For more information, click here.
Hassanein Amer
Title: Professor
Email: hamer@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53042
Areas of Interest: The reliability and testing of digital and mixed-signal circuits; reliability modeling; fault modeling in VLSI; self-checking circuits; analysis of temporary failures; cache memory systems; and networked control systems and wireless communications. For more information, click here
Mohab Anis
Title: Associate Professor
Email: manis@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53058
Areas of Interest: Integrated circuit design and design automation for VLSI systems in the deep submicrometer regime; and Management of Technological Innovation. For more information, click here
Sherif Abdel Azeem
Title: Professor
Email: shazeem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52723
Areas of Interest: Optical Character Recognition (OCR), mainly Arabic handwriting recognition. For more information, click here.
Yehea Ismail
Title: Professor and director of the Nanoelectronics and Devices Center at AUC and Zewail City.
Email: y.ismail@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53056/202.
Areas of Interest: Very large scale integration (vlsi) systems; on-chip inductance in high speed integrated circuits; algorithms for VLSI physical design; temperature-aware computer architecture; arbitrary modeling of TSVS for 3D integrated circuits; circuit design techniques for microscale energy harvesting systems and high performance circuits and interconnect design and modeling. For more information, click here.
Mathematics and Actuarial Science
Ali Hadi
Title: Distinguished University Professor
Email: ahadi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52646
Areas of Interest: Statistics; uncertainty in artificial intelligence; neural and functional networks; and data mining and matrix algebra. For more information, click here
Wafik Lotfalla
Department: Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science
Title: Associate Professor
Email: lotfallah@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52719
Areas of Interest: Finite model theory; model-theoretic games; theoretical computer science; fuzzy logic, and other applications of logic in decision theory. For more information, click here
Zeinab Amin
Title: Associate professor and director of the Actuarial Science Program
Email: zeinabha@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52583
Areas of Interest: Quantitative risk assessment. For more information, click here
Mechanical Engineering
Amal Esawi
Title: Professor
Email: a_esawi@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53102
Areas of Interest: Carbon nanotube composites; applications of carbon-nanotube materials; clay nanocomposites; nanostructured materials and coatings; material selection/substitution; manufacturing process selection; and cost estimation for early stages of design. For more information, click here
Hanadi Salem
Title: Professor
Email: hgsalem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53091
Areas of Interest: Processing of bulk nanostructured materials (BNSM) via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. For more information, click here.
Maki Habib
Title: Professor and Director of Robotics, Control and Smart Systems RCSS
Email: maki@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53083
Areas of Interest: Intelligent control, biomimetics; autonomous and service robots;human adaptive and friendly mechatronics; distributed teleoperation and collaborative control; intelligent sensors systems, and wireless sensor networks and ambient intelligence; industrial robots and automation; and humanitarian demining. For more information, click here
Salah El Haggar
Title: Professor and Chair
Email: elhaggar@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53065
Areas of Interest: Cleaner production and industrial ecology; sustainable development; renewable energy applications particularly biomass and bioenergy; and waste management and recycling. For more information, click here
Petroleum and Energy Engineering
Title: Professor of practice
Email: alaa.adris@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.5 2680
Mohamed Amr Serageddin
Title: Professor and chair of Petroleum and Energy Engineering department
Email: amrserag@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53085 /+20.2.261.5 2680
Areas of Interest: Computational fluid dynamics; renewable energy applications particularly wind and solar; and HVAC and air pollution. For more information, click here.
Biology
Andreas Kakarougkas
Title: Assistant professor
Email: a.kakarougkas@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52898
Areas of Interest: DNA double strand break repair; personalized cancer treatment; and Hepatitis C virus induced DNA damage. For more information, click here
Arthur Bos
Title: associate professor of marine biology/ecology
Email: arbos@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52903
Areas of Interest: Ecology and species diversity of reef fish; Functioning of marine protected areas; Population ecology of invertebrates; and Seagrass ecology and habitat restoration. For more information, click here
Asma Amleh
Title: Associate professor
Email: aamleh@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52908
Areas of Interest: Defining genetic markers implicated in the development of cancer; exploring new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of cancer; and pursuing questions related to the molecular/cellular/ developmental and differentiation processes including stem cell research. For more information, click here
Hamza Fahmy El Dorry
Title: Professor
Email: dory@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52899
Areas of Interest: Enzymology and regulation of metabolic pathways; regulation of gene expression and structural and functional genomics. For more information, click here
Rania Siam
Title: Associate Professor and Chair
Email: rsiam@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52907
Areas of Interest: Environmental genomics; metagenomics; microbial ecology; and geochemistry. For more information, click here
Suher Zada
Title: Professor
Email: suzada@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52909
Areas of Interest: Hepatitis C, liver cancer; hepatocyte culture; bio-nanotechnology as a drug delivery; vaccine development; schistosomiasis; and fascioliasis. For more information, click here
Walid Fouad
Title: Associate professor
Email: wfouad@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52917
Areas of Interest: Integration of genetic transformation technology and functional genomics to study, identify, isolate and engineer key factors for molecular improvement of crops in general and biomass crops in particular; and use of biochemical and molecular biology tools to understand and improve environmental and biotic stress tolerance in plants to enhance their productivity and persistence, resulting in more efficient use of natural resources. For more information, click here
Chemistry
Hassan Azzazy
Title: Professor
Email: hazzazy@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52559
Areas of Interest: Phage-displayed combinatorial antibody libraries; and biochemical markers for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. For more information, click here
Tamer Shoeib
Title: Associate Professor
Email: t.shoeib@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.615.2566
Areas of Interest: Analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and molecular structure with the goal of understanding the structure, reactivity, and function of metal-containing bio-molecules, the complexes formed by these interactions and their uses in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. For more information, click here
Nanotechnology
Hanadi Salem
Title: Professor
Email: hgsalem@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.53091
Areas of Interest: Processing of bulk nanostructured materials (BNSM) via a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. For more information, click here.
Physics
Nageh Allam
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: nageh.allam@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.52568
Areas of Interest: Design and assembly of nanostructured materials; solar-fuel generation; solar-driven CO2 reduction; solar cells and heterojunction photovoltaics; plasmonic and photonic nanomaterials; photocatalysis; sensors; fuel cells and electrocatalysis; water treatment and energy efficient desalination; and passivation of metals and semiconductors; bio-compatible materials; and computational materials science. For more information, click here
Salah Arafa
Title: Professor
Email: smarafa@aucegypt.du
Phone: +20.2.261.52574
Areas of Interest: Solid state physics; radiation effects; advanced materials; integrated community development; renewable energy technologies; and Environmental Education. For more information, click here
Desert and Environment
Richard N. Tutwiler
Title: Professor and Director of the Research Institute for a Sustainable Environment
Email: tutwiler@aucegypt.edu
Phone: +20.2.261.54426
Areas of Interest: Food security; environment; and sustainability issues. For more information, click here
