Prof. Nesreen Ghaddar

Professor, Qatar Chair in Energy Studies / Director, Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources - American University of Beirut .

Prof. Nesreen Ghaddar is Qatar Chair of Energy Studies professor and Director of the Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources at the American University of Beirut. Her primary research focus is in the area of heat transfer enhancement for efficient cooling, modeling energy systems, and energy conversion. She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, and the Lebanese Academy of Science. A mechanical engineering graduate from Kuwait University, Dr. Ghaddar holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been instrumental in the development of specialized educational programmes and labs in applied energy, energy studies as well as green technologies at AUB. She received the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers (Green Engineering) for 2013. In 2014 she was listed by Muslim Science among the top-20 Most Influential Women in Science in the Islamic World and described as the Shaper of Energy Future, Kuwait and Lebanon.


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