Safiya Khalil Alhashmi
Assistant Professor Emerging Scholar of Mechanical Engineering
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD Rice University
Research Websites: Khalil Lab
Research Areas: Materials and nanoscience; energy and sustainability
Safiya Khalil is an Assistant Professor Emerging Scholar of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi. She received her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Rice University in 2023, where she advanced the synthesis, scalability, and processability of 2D polymers, following her BS in Chemical Engineering from Khalifa University in 2019. She currently leads the Khalil research group, which leverages a cross-disciplinary approach that merges chemistry, reaction engineering, and manufacturing principles to design materials for applications in the water and energy sectors.