Materials Science

Principal Investigator: Panče Naumov

The Smart Materials Lab develops advanced materials with adaptive properties, including self-healing, shape-memory, flexible, and energy-responsive systems for applications in energy, water, health, sensing, and robotics. The lab is a pioneer in the field of crystal adaptronics, advancing the understanding and application of smart organic materials for next-generation electronics, biomedical technologies, sustainable infrastructure, and environmental solutions.

Principal Investigator: Ali Trabolsi

The Trabolsi Research Group develops innovative smart materials that address global challenges in healthcare and water sustainability. By combining chemistry, nanoscience, and materials engineering, the group creates advanced technologies for drug delivery, water harvesting, and environmental remediation while exploring novel molecular architectures that inspire next-generation materials and devices.

The Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) at NYUAD has been a nexus for cutting-edge life science research in the United Arab Emirates for over a decade. With world-class facilities and resources at its disposal, the Center’s mission is to promote innovative advances in genomics and systems biology.

As part of its responsibilities at NYUAD, the Center fosters and promotes the university’s research and training missions, by allowing undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists to engage in cross-disciplinary research. It further assists researchers by providing them with advanced instrumentation and computational support to facilitate high-throughput data collection, visualization, and analysis. The NYUAD CGSB operates in partnership with its sister center, NYU Biology’s CGSB in New York, as part of an open organizational framework that drives forward transformative collaborative work across the globe, supported by joint technology and service platforms.

The objective of The Research Center for Translational Medical Devices (CENTMED) is to catalyze translational research collaborations between researchers at NYUAD and clinicians at medical centers in Abu Dhabi and the UAE. CENTMED is specifically focused on the development of medical device technologies for diagnostics and therapeutics, with a broad goal of advancing Bioinnovation and Health within NYUAD and Abu Dhabi.

The Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) at NYUAD has been a nexus for cutting-edge life science research in the United Arab Emirates for over a decade. With world-class facilities and resources at its disposal, the Center’s mission is to promote innovative advances in genomics and systems biology.

As part of its responsibilities at NYUAD, the Center fosters and promotes the university’s research and training missions, by allowing undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists to engage in cross-disciplinary research. It further assists researchers by providing them with advanced instrumentation and computational support to facilitate high-throughput data collection, visualization, and analysis. The NYUAD CGSB operates in partnership with its sister center, NYU Biology’s CGSB in New York, as part of an open organizational framework that drives forward transformative collaborative work across the globe, supported by joint technology and service platforms.