Dr. Mai Osama Sallam

Bio

Biography

Dr. Mai received her B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering (Hons.) from Ain Shams University in 2008. She obtained an M.Sc. degree in Physics in 2012 from The American University in Cairo (AUC), and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2017. During her graduate studies, she received several fellowships, including the KAUST, Yousef Jameel, and Fonds Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) fellowships. Additionally, she was awarded several travel grants, which facilitated her participation in top international conferences and workshops in her research area.

Dr. Mai joined Nile University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021, where she teaches core physics courses to undergraduate students from different disciplines. Prior to joining Nile University, she gained experience in teaching other courses, including electromagnetics and electric circuits. She has authored/co-authored a US patent and 37 international papers published in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Currently, Dr. Mai is an associate member (2024-2029) of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), allowing her to maintain long-term connections with ICTP research centers.

Achievements

Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Fellowship, University of Texas in Austin (2022).
Nokia Bell Scientific Prize, Belgium (2018).
Highest GPA award, The American University in Cairo (2011).

Research Tracks

Electromagneitcs and antennas
Computational electromagnetics
Plasmonics

Grants

Projects

Research Project

Plasmonic Sensors for Biomedical and Infra-Red Detection Application

Objective/Contributions: The project aims at proposing a new Infra-Red sensor design by employing a plasmonic effect. Plasmonic devices have great potential for biomedical applications due to the sensitivity of the localized surface plasmon resonance to the surrounding medium. Therefore, proposed metasurface sensors are tuned for Biomedical applications as medical diagnostic tools. Enhancing

Research Project

Terahertz Metamaterial Structures for Biomedical Sensing Applications

A new design of interdigitated E-shaped metamaterial sensor has been proposed. The structure has been intensively studied using CST software and is optimized to achieve ultrahigh sensitivity at the Terahertz range. Two different structures of the E-shaped sensors have been proposed. Both structures are characterized by a high absorption level at their resonant peaks with an ultra-high sensitivity

Research Project

Optical Nano-antennas for Photovoltaic and Infra-red Sensing Applications

Objectives: The main objectives of the project are listed below: Developing new plasmonic nano structures along with proposing new array topologies by considering uniform distribution, 2D or 3D linear and gaussian distributions. Also, the proposed work aims at investigating the passivation effect of the nanoparticles by surrounding it with a thin layer of silica. Testing different metaheuristics