NYU Abu Dhabi warmly welcomes 35 distinguished new faculty for the 2025–26 academic year. Representing the University’s four academic divisions, their research ranges from modern and contemporary Arab art to the cosmic evolution of massive black holes. These scholars and educators bring with them a wealth of expertise from the world’s leading teaching and research institutions, as well as innovation and global perspectives.
Learn more about each of our new faculty members here.
Arts and Humanities
- Bilal Orfali, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies - PhD, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, USA
- Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing - PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA
- Jie Yuan, Senior Language Lecturer of Chinese - MA, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, East China Normal University, China
- Nada Shabout, Visiting Professor of Art History - PhD, Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Owen Flanagan, Visiting Professor of Philosophy - PhD, Philosophy, Boston University, USA
- Saul Takahashi, Visiting Professor of Legal Studies - LLM, International Human Rights Law, University of Essex, UK
- Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Visiting Professor of Practice, Arab Crossroads - MA, Oriental Studies (Arabic), University of Oxford, UK
- Miguel Syjuco, Visiting Associate Arts Professor of Literature and Creative Writing - PhD, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Cristina Ioan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - PhD, Music Performance, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- Fadi Wahbeh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice, Film and New Media - MFA, Documentary Production, University of North Texas, USA
- Halla Khalil, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing - PhD Candidate, English, University of Maryland, USA
- Jack Du, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media - MPS, Interactive Telecommunications, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA
- Joe Davies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - PhD, Musicology, University of Oxford, UK
- Ume Hussain, Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media - MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA
- Vinicius Sordi Libardoni, Visiting Assistant Arts Professor with a specialization in printmaking - PhD, Fine Arts, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland
- Renad Younes, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Practice of Legal Studies - LLM, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Engineering
- Ahmad Bin Thaneya, Assistant Professor / Emerging Scholar of Civil and Urban Engineering - PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Prabodh Panindre, Research Scientist; Research Assistant Professor - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, New York University, USA
- Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Visiting Professor of Computer Engineering - PhD, Computer Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Science
- Alan Cornell, Visiting Professor of Physics - PhD, Physics, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Francesco Haardt, Visiting Professor of Physics - PhD, Astrophysics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy
- Luca Amendola, Visiting Professor of Physics - PhD, Astronomy, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
- Spiros Pergantis, Visiting Professor of Chemistry - PhD, Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Gabriel Falcão, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- John Parrington, Visiting Associate Professor of Biology - PhD, Cell Signalling, University of London, UK
Social Science
- Valentina Corradi, Professor of Economics - PhD, Economics, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Benjamin Rosche, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy and Computational Social Science - PhD, Sociology and Computer Science, Cornell University, USA
- Shuo Liu, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics - PhD, Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Luis Rojas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics - PhD, Economics, European University Institute, Italy
- Sabarish Suresh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Studies - JSD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA
- Manu Munoz-Herrera, Visiting Lecturer of Business, Organizations and Society - PhD, Sociology, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Sara Musaifer, Visiting Lecturer of Social Research and Public Policy - PhD, Comparative and International Development Education, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
- Jean Fares, Adjunct Professor of Practice of Economics - PhD, Economics, Universite de Montreal, Canada
- Nisha Renjen, Adjunct Lecturer of Business, Organizations and Society - MBA, Finance and Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School, USA
- Kanika Sharma, Adjunct Lecturer of Social Research and Public Policy - PhD, Sociology, Emory University, USA