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Faculty Research & Creative Activity in United Arab Emirates
Deji Akinwande
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Deji Akinwande's research focuses on 2D materials and nanotechnology, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. This manifests as translational nanotechnology from materials to devices to circuits, blurring the boundaries between chemistry, electronics, physics, materials science and mechanics.
Noël Busch-Armendariz
Social Work, Health Social Work, Human Rights and Justice
Noël Busch-Armendariz's research, teaching, and praxis focus on violent crime, human rights, social justice policy, international social work education, restoration, and peacemaking. Busch-Armendariz has worked collaboratively with others for 30 years who believe everyone deserves to live peacefully and prosperously.
Moriba Jah
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Moriba Jah's research interests are in non-gravitational astrodynamics and advanced/non-linear multi-sensor/object tracking, prediction, and information fusion. His expertise is in space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization, as well as spacecraft navigation.
Manish Kumar
Chemical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Manish Kumar's research group is interested in mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale, particularly cell membrane components, to develop materials and processes that bring the specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.
Vijay Mahajan
Marketing
Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.
Ashley Matheny
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ashley Matheny is an ecohydrologist whose research focuses on understanding and simulating the ways vegetation influences the storage and movement of water between the soil and the atmosphere. She uses a wide variety of field measurements and numerical modeling strategies to answer questions regarding the ways droughts, salinity, and other disturbances influence vegetation-climate feedbacks in terms of water, carbon, and energy exchange.
Leonard Moore
History
Leonard Moore researches Black power, the Civil Rights Movement, the history of the segregated South, and teaches courses on Black history and politics.
Mauricio Viroli
Government
Maurizio Viroli's works examine the history of political thought, looking at the relationship between religion and politics, classical republicanism vs. neo-republicanism, political communication, and citizenship and civic education.
Guihua Yu
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Guihua Yu's researches design and synthesis of functional nano-architectured materials, like organic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly and integration methodologies to enable important applications in energy, environment and sustainability, e.g. fast-charging batteries, electrocatalysis, solar water purification, critical mineral recovery.
Partnerships
- American University of Sharjah
Alumni Connections
Texas Exes UAE Chapter
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