Salma.Ahmed
Qualifications
About Salma
I'm a simple girl- leading a simple life: family-oriented and research-focused. Motivational speaker, nature lover, spiritual, adventurer, find asylum in music, movies, books, writing and housekeeping! Fluent in Arabic and English/ in the process of learning Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Curiosity is my trigger, passion is my lead.
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Salma Elgaili Ahmed is a fully-funded PhD student in the group of Dr Kristofer Thurecht at the Centre for Advanced Imaging (CAI) and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)- University of Queensland (UQ)- Australia. She has completed her BSc with a First degree-Honour of Chemical Engineering from the University of Khartoum (UofK)- Sudan, then pursued her master’s degree - fully-funded by the American University of Sharjah (AUS)- UAE, in the same field. Mrs Ahmed's objective is to develop pharmaceutical systems that facilitate and optimize drug delivery and release from nano-carriers within the targeted areas in a safe and effective manner. She has 4 years of experience as a teaching/ research assistant and 3 years of experience as a volunteer/ full-time researcher. Throughout her career, she has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter, and won the 2nd place in the IChemE Global Awards, 2016, under the umbrella of the Drug Delivery Lab at the AUS, in the category of Research Project of the Year. Her records are also topped with a local TEDx talk and 3 non-academic prizes in the categories of story writing, poetry and broadcasting.