Meet our Engineering Academics

Dr. Adel Abdel-Wahab, Associate Professor and Head of Quality Assurance at Dubai Campus, earned his PhD from Loughborough University. His research on advanced materials, including biomaterials, has led to 30+ publications. He is a Fellow of IMechE, CEng, and SFHEA.

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Archibong is an Associate Professor and Director of Mechanical Engineering Programmes at the University of Birmingham, Dubai. A Chartered Engineer and IMechE Fellow, he researches fluids and multiphase flow systems for low-carbon energy, carbon removal, industrial process, and biomedical applications.

 

Dr Seyed Ghaffar is the Head of Engineering at the University of Birmingham, Dubai, and an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (CEng, FICE).

Dr Majid Malboubi is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering.

Inspired by the workings of nature, Dr Malboubi applies the principles of mechanics and design micro-tools to unravel the physics underlying cellular processes and to understand how cells interact with their surroundings. Dr Malboubi completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham and worked on the interaction of ...

Dr Imran Qureshi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He possesses academic as well as significant industrial experience in his field. Prior to joining University of Birmingham, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.

Dr Qureshi earned his PhD in Engineering Sciences from the ...

Melody Khadem Sameni is associate professor of Railway Transportation Engineering and also the program director of MSc Railway Systems Engineering and Integration at the University of Birmingham- Dubai Campus. She previously held the position of Assistant Professor and head of Railway Transportation Group at the School of Railway Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology. She is an ...

Dr Shehzad is the Program director of BSc Computer Engineering at the University of Birmingham Dubai campus and an Assistant Professor in the school of Engineering. He has more than 10 years of work experience in the field of higher education.

Mohamad Zalzale is an interdisciplinary scientist with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and an MSc in Computational Physics from the University of Montpellier, France. He has lived in six countries and worked across academia and industry, including as a research scientist in Norway and services ...