Raed Hashaikeh
Program Head of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Mechanical Engineering, NYU Tandon
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD McGill University
Research Websites: Water Research Center
Research Areas: Advanced Materials, Nanofibers, Membranes, Desalination
Raed Hashaikeh is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. He earned his MSc and PhD in Materials Engineering from McGill University in 2000 and 2005, respectively.
Hashaikeh’s research focuses on advanced materials and nanostructured systems for water treatment, desalination, resource recovery, and energy storage applications. His work emphasizes the design and process development of functional nanostructures, particularly nanofibrous materials for membrane fabrication and separation technologies. He has published extensively in the fields of membrane science, nanomaterials, and desalination.
Prior to joining NYUAD, Hashaikeh held academic appointments at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology from 2008 to 2016 and at Khalifa University, where he served as a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department between 2017 and 2019. Before entering academia, he worked as a Scientist at FPInnovations and was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Research and Development Fellowship. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2008 and 2009.