Science Researchers

Marieh Bassam Al-Handawi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mah859@nyu.edu
Education: MA: New York University (GSAS); PhD: New York University (GSAS)

Research Interests: Water harvesting, Bioluminescence, Biomimetic materials, Biomineralization, Crystallography, Self-he...

Mohamad Abbas, Research Associate; Public Outreach Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: moe.abbas@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Max Planck Research School for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg; MS Bowling Green State Unive...

Research Interests: Galaxy Evolution; Milky Way; RR Lyrae Stars; Globular Clusters; Variable Stars; Galactic Cannibalism

Nour Abdelmoneim, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nour.abdelmoneim@nyu.edu
Education: BSc New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Mars, Climate, Machine Learning

Rasha AbdulHalim, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rga5@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, American University of Beirut; MSc, American University Beirut; DSc in Chemical Science, KAUST

Research Interests: Metal Organic frameworks, MOF synthesis, MOF characterization, X-ray crystallography, Gas sorption...

Osama Abdullah, Research Instrumentation Scientist II Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: osama.abdullah@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Jordan, MS University of Illinois at Chicago, PhD University of Utah

Research Interests: MRI, Neuroimaging, 3D Printing, Cardiac, Brain,

Fayrouz Abou Ibrahim, Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fa2110@nyu.edu
Education: MA American University of Beirut

Research Interests: Covalent organic frameworks, Covalent organic polymers, pollutant removal, catalysis

Muhammed AbuOdeh, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mra9407@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Georgia, Athens

Research Interests: Syntax; Dependency Parsing; Arabic treebank development

Salma Abdulrazak Abubakar, Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: saa722@nyu.edu
Education: BA United Arab Emirates

Research Interests: Materials science; porous materials; water purification; environmental sustainability

Khalid Nabigh Elmadani Ahmed, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kna4278@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Khartoum; MSc University of Cape Town

Research Interests: Natural language processing

Ejaz Ahmed, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ea79@nyu.edu
Education: MS, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad; Phd Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Yousra Ajouaou, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ya2331@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université Libre de Bruxelles

Research Interests: Epigenetic; regeneration; Liver; ageing

Amal Al Gergawi, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aag569@nyu.edu
Education: BA NYU Abu Dhabi; MSc University of Oxford

Research Interests: Marine science and conservation; coastal urbanization; political ecology; Arabian Gulf

Maryam Al Memari, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: maa9587@nyu.edu
Education: BA Zayed University; MS Johns Hopkins University

Neveen AlQasas, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: na3150@nyu.edu
Education: BA UAEU, MSC University of Western Ontario, PhD Ottawa University

Research Interests: antifouling membranes, transport in membranes, water treatment, biofouling, membrane characterizatio...

Ameer Alakkal, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aa6272@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, University of Calicut; MSc, Aligarh Muslim University

Bashar Alhafni, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ba63@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Bridgeport; MS University of Southern California

Research Interests: Computational Linguistics; Machine Translation; Machine Learning; Information Extraction; Reinforcem...

Mohamed Ali, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ma8281@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Aix-Marseille University, France

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulent flow, fluid-structure interaction

Zahraa Alraies, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: za2523@nyu.edu
Education: PhD. PSL University, France, MSc Paris Descartes University, France, BA Kalamoon University, Syria

Research Interests: Mechaniobiology, immunology, cell biology, nucleus, mechanosensing

Amnah Alzahmi, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amnah.alzahmi@nyu.edu
Education: Bachelor in Cellular and Molecular Biology from United Arab Emirates University

Research Interests: Algae; biofuel; alternative oil production; food security

Benjamin Anwasia, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: benjamin.anwasia@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria; MSc Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona; Joi...

Research Interests: Kinetic Theory; Hydrodynamic Limits

Nikhil Arora, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nikhil.arora@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Jacobs University Bremen; MSc Queen's University; PhD Queen's University

Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution; galaxy structure; comparing simulations and observations of galaxies

Muhammad Arshad, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ma5877@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Simon Fraser University Canada

Research Interests: Bioinformatics; Data Analysis; Public Health Research

Dimitra Atri, Investigator, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: atri@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Kansas

Research Interests: Planetary science, ISRU, human spaceflight, astrobiology

Zaynoun Attieh, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: za2061@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Lebanese University; MSc Saint Joseph University (Lebanon); PhD AgroParisTech (France) and Saint...

Research Interests: Host-pathogen Interaction; Biological pest control; Red palm weevil; Bacillus thuringiensis.

Wegood Awad, Global PhD Fellow Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wma243@nyu.edu
Education: BA Abu Dhabi University

Research Interests: Material Science and Biological Applications

Cristina Baglio, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mcb19@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Milan (Italy); MA University of Milan (Italy); PhD University of Insubria (Como, It...

Asif Bakshi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aab8477@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Kashmir; MSc University of Kashmir; PhD Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnost...

Research Interests: Drosophila Neural Development, Neural Diversity, Neurons, Neural Circuitry

Balaraju Battu, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bb3404@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Allahabad

Research Interests: Collective action, human-machine interactions, trust

Neelu Begum, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: neelu.begum@nyu.edu
Education: BSc(Hons) St. Georges University of London, MSc London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; PhD ...

Research Interests: Computational Science, Multi-omics, Bioinformatics, Microbiome, Adaptive Evolution

Khaled Ben El Kadhi, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kb146@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Montreal ; PhD University of Montreal

Research Interests: Neurogenesis; Stem Cells

Othman Benomar, Affiliate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: othman.benomar@nyu.edu

Rita Bento, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rcc8949@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Porto University

Research Interests: Coral reefs; extreme environments; benthic communities

Farah Benyettou, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fb51@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Chemistry, Honors, University Paris 13

Jishnu Bhattacharya, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jb6888@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Brij Bhushan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bn2351@nyu.edu
Education: BTech Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, India; MS Latrobe Univers...

Research Interests: Microbiome; metagenomics; host-microbiome interaction

Rawan Bondok, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: reb9482@nyu.edu
Education: Mcs, Arizona State

Research Interests: Dialectal Arabic Natural language processing, Morphology, Arabic Machine Diacritization

Christopher Bryan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: crb9805@nyu.edu
Education: PhD (Psychology), University of Limerick, Ireland; Bachelor of Science in Sport and Exercise Science...

Research Interests: Occupational psychology, stress psychology, educational psychology and sport psychology

Louie Buccella, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: louie.buccella@nyu.edu
Education: MS University at Buffalo

Research Interests: Marine ecology

Nanda Kishore Reddy Busireddy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nanda.kishore@nyu.edu
Education: PhD National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Research Interests: Air-sea interactions; coupled modelling; ocean and weather extremes; climate change

Tiago Costa Capote, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tiago.capote@nyu.edu
Education: BA and MA in Biochemistry, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; PhD in Biology, University of Lis...

Research Interests: Plant Genomics and Evolution

Geórgenes Cavalcante, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ghc2441@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Meteorology - Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil; MSc in Meteorology - Federal University o...

Research Interests: Physical oceanography

Francesco Ceccarini, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fc2284@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Università di Padova, Italy

Research Interests: Motor control, kinematics, perception

Janja Ceh, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: j.ceh@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Vienna, PhD Murdoch University, Perth

Research Interests: Coral reef ecosystems, marine symbioses, marine microbial ecology

Torsten Cellnik, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tc98@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bergische Universität Wuppertal; MA Bergische Universität Wuppertal; PhD Bergische Universität Wu...

Research Interests: development of organic transformations, automation of chemical synthesis, natural product synthesis

Anees Rahman Cheratta, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: arc10@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Pharmaceutical Science, Cresent College of Pharmaceutical Science; MSc Hamdard University, Ph...

Christopher Adrian Clough, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cac10156@nyu.edu
Education: BA ETH Zürich; MA ETH Zürich; PhD University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests: Topos theory; Homotopy Theory; Higher Categories; Derived Geometry

Carlo Collari, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: carlo.collari@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Università degli Studi di Cagliari, MSc Università di Pisa, PhD Università degli studi di Firenz...

Research Interests: Knot theoryò Quantum Invariants; Khovanov Homology; Khovanov-Rozansky Homologies; Graph Homologies;

Julie Connelly, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmc49@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Edinburgh

Research Interests: Natural Products; Drug Discovery

Sarah Daakour, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sd145@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Liege - Belgium

Research Interests: genetics; synthetic biology; interactomics; genetic engineering; molecular biology; algal systems; c...

Basam Dahy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: basam.dahy@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Ecology & Environmental Sciences, UAE University, UAE

Research Interests: Remote sensing applications; geospatial modeling; LULC change; carbon sequestration; sustainable dev...

Ala' Faisal Darabseh, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ala.darabseh@nyu.edu
Education: MA Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)

Research Interests: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN); Security; Privacy; Aviation; IoT ; Software-Defined Systems (SDS)

Gobinda Das, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gd57@nyu.edu

Benjamin Davis, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ben.davis@nyu.edu
Education: BS Pittsburg State University; PhD University of Arkansas

Research Interests: Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies; Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations; Galaxy Evolution

Nathalia Delgadillo, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ncd5387@nyu.edu
Education: BA Biology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; MA Environmental Science and Engineering and PhD in Ma...

Research Interests: Coral restoration, climate change, assisted evolution

Dattaraj Dhuri, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dbd7062@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Research Interests: Solar Magnetism, Space-weather, Mars

Massar Dieng, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mmd14@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSC University of Tours

Nadine Hosny El Said, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nhe1@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Pharmaceutical sciences, Ain Shams University (ASU); MSc. Biotechnology the American Universi...

Research Interests: Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Biochemistry, lncRNA, Biotechnology, Molecular and Cell biology, stem cell...

Mai El Sawy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mme7566@nyu.edu
Education: Dual PhD degree in Particle Physics, University of Antwerp in Belgium and Beni Suif University in Eg...

Research Interests: Particle physics, CERN, physics, atlas

Rana El Danaf, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rne1@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Drosophila Melanogaster, Visual system, Development

Lasha Ephremidze, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: le23@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Razmadze Mathematical Institute

Research Interests: Harmonic Analysis, Complex Analysis, Ergodic Theory

Amin Mohamed, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amin.mohamed@nyu.edu
Education: PhD (Marine Science) James Cook University (JCU) and Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), ...

Gennaro Esposito, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ge22@nyu.edu
Education: MSc in Chemistry (Laurea in Chimica) Naples University

Research Interests: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular NMR, Protein Biophysics, Structure and Function of Biopolym...

Tatiana Ezubova, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: te598@nyu.edu
Education: BA New York University; MSc University of Bonn

Research Interests: Algebraic Topology; Homotopy theory

Valentina Fambri, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vf2105@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Innsbruck (Austria), BSc University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurodevelopmental Biology, Neuroscience

Jonathan Flowers, Research Assistant Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmf11@nyu.edu
Education: BS Walla Walla College; MS Louisiana State University; PhD University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Population Genetics; Evolutionary Biology

Lior Galanti, Associate Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lior.galanti@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Information Systems, Technion Israel Institute of Technology; MSc Computer Science, New York Uni...

Research Interests: high throughput sequence analysis and classification. VDJ antibody sequence classification. Machine ...

Bikash Garai, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bg101@nyu.edu
Education: PhD AcSIR

Research Interests: Covalent organic frameworks, Water purification, Contaminant removal from water

Lucia Gastoldi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lucia.gastoldi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Universita' Politecnica delle Marche

Research Interests: Coral reef ecology; waste water in Persian Gulf, coral physiology, acclimation/adaption to extreme t...

Mohamed Ghattassi, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mohamed.ghattassi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université de Lorraine

Research Interests: Partial differential equations (PDEs)

Iraj Gholami, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: iraj.gholami@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany

Research Interests: Data Science; Machine Learning; AI (Artificial Intelligence); MRI imaging

Grigorios Giotopoulos, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: grigorios.giotopoulos@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Edinburgh; MASt University of Cambridge; PhD Heriot-Watt University

Research Interests: Mathematical Physics; Geometrical and Topological Aspects of Physics; Homotopy Theory; Category Theo...

Laurent Gizon, Research Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laurent.gizon@nyu.edu

Daniil Golubenko, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dg4300@nyu.edu
Education: Specialist degree (BA+MA) Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU); PhD Kurnakov Institute of General...

Research Interests: Water and ion transport in membranes, conductivity, membrane fabrication, electrodialysis, nanofiltr...

Suma Gopinadhan, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sg5495@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Mahatma Gandhi University

Research Interests: Discovery of new anthelmintic compounds, Genome-wide high throughput Genetic Interaction Screens in ...

Thomas Grevesse, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tag9888@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Concordia University and University of Mons

Research Interests: Ecology and role of microbiome in world oceans

Bruno Guillotin, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: bg93@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Toulouse University, FR

Research Interests: scRNA-seq, root development, stem cells, mycorrhizal symbiosis, peptides

Raman Gurusamy, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rg5184@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Pondicherry University

Research Interests: Plant Comparative Genomics, Transcriptomics, Population and Evolutionary Genomics

Jeneen Hadj-Hammou, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jh8695@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Leeds University; MSc Oxford University; PhD Lancaster University

Research Interests: Coral reefs; ecosystem functions; functional traits; climate change; marine protected areas; fishing

Subrota Halder, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sh7868@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University; MSc, Atmosphere and Ocean Sci...

Research Interests: Climate variability and predictability; decadal prediction; coupled modelling; ocean circulation

Shravan Hanasoge, Assistant Research Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sh2539@nyu.edu

Christopher Hanson, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hanson@nyu.edu
Education: BSc with Hon. Monash University. PhD Monash University

Research Interests: Helioseismology; Computational Methods; Solar Physics

Zineb Hassainia, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zineb.hassainia@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université de Rennes

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics

Zyad Yasser, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zyad.yasser@nyu.edu
Education: BS NYU Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Homotopy type theory; formalization

Trent Haydon, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: trent.haydon@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Technology Sydney; BSc (Hons) University of Technology Sydney; PhD University of T...

Research Interests: Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Coral Biology

Alyaa Hessin, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: afh8900@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Cairo University; MSc Cairo University; MPA American University in Cairo, PhD University of Illi...

Research Interests: Oncology, DNA Editing, Climate Change, Plant Biology

Haroune Houamed, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: haroune.houamed@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université Côte d'Azur, Nice

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Mechanics and Plasma physic.

Elisephane Irankunda, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: elisephane.i@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Environmental Science, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MSc in Atmospheric an...

Research Interests: Urban network-environment interactions ; air quality monitoring; air quality modelling; transportati...

Syaheed Jabar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: syaheed.jabar@nyu.edu
Education: BA National University of Singapore; MA,Graduate Diploma,PhD University of Waterloo

Research Interests: Visual Attention, Expectations & Memory

Amaria Javed, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amaria.javed@nyu.edu
Education: MSc and MPhil Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad; PhD United Arab Emirates University, UAEU

Research Interests: All-Optical Data Processing, Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Sensing

Woonkee Sungwoon Jo, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wsj226@nyu.edu
Education: BS American University of Beirut

Research Interests: Natural products; polyketide synthesis

Asmaa Jrad, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abj8980@nyu.edu
Education: BE Lebanese University; MEng American University of Beirut; PhD American University of Beirut

Research Interests: Materials' molecular design; Functional porous materials; Desalination; Catalysis

Samira Khalaji, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sk10887@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Ulm University

Research Interests: Stem cell biology, Stem cells differentiation and fate, Adipogenesis, Neurogenesis, Molecular biosen...

Basit Khan, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: basit.khan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Env. Sci., University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Masters, Env. Sci., University of Auckland, N...

Research Interests: Climate change, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, urban climate change, urban heat island, extre...

Nouf Khan, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nak397@nyu.edu
Education: BS, New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Unfolded Protein Response, Liver, Activating transcription factor 6, Toxicology, Development

Cece Kim, Research Assistant of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cece.kim@nyu.edu
Education: BA New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Gender; Intersectionality; Mental Health

Sreejith Kottuparambil, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sk11452@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Calicut University; PhD Incheon National University

Research Interests: Marine monitoring, phytoplankton ecology, ecotoxicology, oil spill impacts

Smail Kourta, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: s.kourta@nyu.edu
Education: Master's in computer science, École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique in Algiers; Master's in Mach...

Research Interests: AI-assisted compiler optimization; code performance; machine learning for system optimizations

Vigneshwaran Krishnamoorthi, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vk2346@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Government Arts College in Salem Tamilnadu;

Research Interests: Mars simulation experiments, Mars-analog sites, Planetary Geology, Meteorites, Meteorite craters

Dineshkumar Krishnamoorthy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dineshkumar.k@nyu.edu
Education: MPhil and PhD Central University of Kerala

Research Interests: Panomics

Anurag Kumar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ak11283@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Allahabad, India

Research Interests: Air-sea interactions, climate change, coupled ocean sea ice modeling, physical and dynamical oceanog...

Zouhair Lachkar, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zouhair.lachkar@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Environmental Sciences, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, 2007; Master of Scien...

Research Interests: Oceanography, climate, and marine biogeochemistry

Philip Lah, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pkl9469@nyu.edu
Education: BSc(Hons) Australian National University; PhD Australian National University

Research Interests: Galaxy evolution

Yu Liang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yu.liang@nyu.edu
Education: BA Shandong University; PhD University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Nonlinear Instability; Turbulence

Jie Liu, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jl15817@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fudan University; PhD Fudan University

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations

Filippo Macchi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fm1442@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Biotechnology at University of Insubria (Italy); MSc in Biology Applied to Biomedical Research...

Research Interests: Epigenetics; Cancer; Regeneration; UHRF1 and DNA Methylation

Elena Magnani, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: em188@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Biotechnology at University of Bologna (IT); MSc in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at University...

Sanjit Manohar Majhi, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: smm10137@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Jeonbuk National University, South Korea

Research Interests: Sensors, organic crystals, MXenes, 2D materials, semiconductors, soft robotics, nanomaterials

Laura Manenti, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laura.manenti@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University College London

Research Interests: Dark matter; neutrino physics; liquid argon and liquid xenon TPCs

Marwa Mannai, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm12971@nyu.edu
Education: BA Faculty of sciences of Tunis; MA Faculty of sciences of Tunis; PhD Faculty of sciences of Tunis

Research Interests: Topological phases of matter; Two-dimensional materials; Strongly correlated electron systems; Moiré...

Ligia Cota Vieira, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lcotavieira@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Virginia Tech

Research Interests: red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, genetic pest control

Georgina Matthews, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ghm9657@nyu.edu
Education: MRes University of Newcastle; BSc Bangor University

Research Interests: Coral biology, molecular biology, CBASS, thermal stress

Mohammed Ateeq Ur Rahman Mohammed, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mam44@nyu.edu
Education: BS Osmania University, India: MS Umea University, Sweden.

Research Interests: Single cell RNA sequencing studies

David Myers, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: djm10080@nyu.edu
Education: BA Oberlin College, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Homotopy Type Theory, Category Theory, Modal Logic

Alexandra Mystikou, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: am8406@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Aberdeen;

Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Algal Synthetic Genomics, Algal Genomics, Biotechnology

Priyam Narain, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pn33@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India

Research Interests: Circadian rhythms, Molecular neurobiology, Stress and mood disorders

David Nelson, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: drn2@nyu.edu
Education: BA Colorado College; PhD University of Minnesota

Research Interests: Genomics; Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics

Ahmad Nemer, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abn275@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Sharjah; MA and PhD Auburn University

Research Interests: Spectroscopy, radiative transfer, astrophysical plasma modelling

Vinh Thanh Nguyen, CITIES Research Fellow Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vince.nguyen@nyu.edu
Education: BA New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing; Quantified Self; Air Quality Interfaces

Matthew Nielson, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: matthew.nielson@nyu.edu
Education: PhD: Family and Human Development, Arizona State University. Specialization: Women and Gender Studie...

Research Interests: Gender Identity Development

Liang Niu, Graduate Student Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: liang.niu@nyu.edu
Education: MS, New York University; BE, Nankai University

Ossama Obeid, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oo11@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, Carnegie Mellon University

Swathy Krishna P.S, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: skp7753@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Cochin University of Science and Technology, MSc Cochin University of Science and Technology, BS...

Research Interests: Coastal ocean dynamics, ocean modelling, climate change, coastal vulnerability

Siraj Pallichankandy, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sp191@nyu.edu
Education: MSc in Biotechnology, Kannur University

Ambrish Pandey, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ambrish.pandey@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Banaras Hindu University; MSc-PhD Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Research Interests: Turbulent thermal convection; Astrophysical convection

Mario Pasquato, Research Associate (CAP3) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mario.pasquato@nyu.edu
Education: MSc. Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy); Ph.D. Università di Pisa (Italy)

Research Interests: Machine Learning for Astronomy

Yanthe Pearson, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pearsy02@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSc, MEng and PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research Interests: Data science; Biostatistics; Machine learning; Phenotypic profiling

Thirumurugan Prakasam, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tp42@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Organic Chemistry, CSIR-CLRI, MPhil, MSc Chemistry and BSc Chemistry, University of Madras

Tulasi Ram Reddy Annapareddy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tulasi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; MStat, BStat (Hons), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolk...

Ajaya Ravindran, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ajaya.mohan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; MTech Atmospheric Scie...

Research Interests: Climate variability, modeling, and data analysis

Venkata SubbaRao Redrouthu, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vr2444@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Acharya Nagarjuna University; MSc Andhra University; PhD IISER Mohali

Research Interests: Solid-state NMR; DNP; Quantum Sensing; Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics;`Spin Dynamics

Mitchell Riley, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mitchell.v.riley@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Queensland; MA Western University; PhD Wesleyan University

Research Interests: Homotopy Theory; Type Theory; Modal Logic

Daniel Ripley, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: daniel.ripley@nyu.edu
Education: Msci University of Manchester; PhD University of Manchester

Research Interests: Ecophysiology, multi-stressor interactions, hypoxia

Pearl Rwauya, Scientific Data Analyst Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pearl.rwauya@nyu.edu
Education: BS New York University, MS Computer Science University of York (Completing in 2025)

Research Interests: Environmental monitoring systems, IoT integration for climate research, data visualization and dashb...

Mostafa Saeed, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mms10094@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Greenwich, UK / BA MSA University, Egypt

Research Interests: Arabic Natural Language Processing; Data Science; AI; Machine Learning; Deep Learning

Payaswini Saikia, Postdoctoral Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ps164@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Radboud University; MSc, Astromundus, University of Gottingen; BSc, Delhi University

Edyta Sasin, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: edytasasin@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Groningen, Netherlands

Research Interests: Attention, Memory, Visual Perception, Cognitive Control

Urs Schreiber, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: us13@nyu.edu
Education: PhD from University Essen, Habilitation from Hamburg University, Germany

Research Interests: Theoretical Physics and Algebraic Topology

Vivek Kumar Singh, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vks2024@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Banaras Hindu university; MSc IIT Bombay; PhD IIT Bombay

Research Interests: Chern-Simons field theory and Knot invariants; Quantum information; Anyons; Topological strings

Tina Skorjanc, Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tina.skorjanc@nyu.edu
Education: BSc New York University

Research Interests: covalent organic polymers, covalent organic frameworks, pollutant removal, water purification

Soja Soman, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: soja.saghar@nyu.edu
Education: BV Sc and AH Kerala Agricultural University; MV Sc Indian Veterinary Research Institute; PhD Rajiv G...

Katepalli Sreenivasan, Principal Investigator Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: katepalli.sreenivasan@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Primary expertise: Fluid mechanics and turbulence. Other interests: complex fluids, nonlinear dynami...

Karthikeyan Subburayan, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ks188@nyu.edu
Education: MSc and PhD in Biochemistry, Annamalai University

Mehar Sultana, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ms8783@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Osmania University India; MSc Kakatiya University India

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Clinical Pathology and Microbiology

Ibrahim Tahir, Global PhD Fellow in Chemistry Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: imt243@nyu.edu
Education: BA, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Research Interests: Material Science & Chemistry

Dima Taji, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dima.taji@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA Birzeit University

Faisal T Thayyullathil , Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ftt1@nyu.edu
Education: MSc in Biotechnology, Periyar University; PhD, Acharya Nagarjuna

Sachin Valera, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sachin.valera@nyu.edu
Education: Math University of Durham; PhD University of Bergen

Research Interests: Quantum Information; Anyons; Category Theory; Quantum Topology

Mathy Vanhoef, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mathy.vanhoef@nyu.edu
Education: PhD KU Leuven, Belgium

Research Interests: Network & System Security; Software Security; Secure Software Engineering; Applied Cryptography; Pri...

Tomas Venit, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tv21@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Charles University; Prague; Czech Republic

Research Interests: Mitochondria; Neurodegeneration; DNA Damage; Transcription; Cell Reprogramming; Cell Differentiation...

Manikandan Vinu, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mv83@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Amrita University

Kyle Wright, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kyle.j.wright@nyu.edu
Education: BSc (hons 1st class) University of Otago; PhD Australian National University

Research Interests: Mathematical physics; Geometric and topological aspects of string theory and M-theory

Xin Xie, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: xx12@nyu.edu
Education: University of Cambridge

Nian Xue, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nian.xue@nyu.edu
Education: BE Xi'an Jiaotong University; MRes University of Liverpool

Research Interests: Security; GPS; IoT; Machine Learning; Blockchain

Soha Yousuf, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sey5434@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, PhD Khalifa University of Science and Technology