16 Jul 2021
Episode 2: Dr Amal Kasry demystifies Nano and Builds Capacity for Innovation
An academic/scientist with a wide range of international experience in Condensed Matter Physics, Photonics, and Nano-biotechnology, with innovative achievements! Dr. Kasry has over 15 years of experience in R&D projects (in both academy and industry in 7 different countries), and 6 years’ experience of undergrad and postgrad teaching, besides hands-on experience in technology transfer and intellectual property issues.
Dr. Kasry received her PhD in Material Science/ Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP), and the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany in 2006. Her major work was on using surface plasmon fluorescence spectroscopy (SPFS) in bio-sensing applications; she developed a biosensor which is of 22-time higher sensitivity than the conventional SPFS sensor. After a one-year postdoc at the MPIP, she was a postdoc fellow at the Center of Cell Analysis and Modeling (CCAM) at UConn health center, Connecticut, USA, where she worked on live cell imaging by dark field light scattering. She was then appointed for two years as a research associate at the department of Bioscience in Cardiff University, UK, during this time she led the activity of designing biochips based on DNA Nano-tethers to study protein-protein interactions on the surface in collaboration with GE Health Care.
In 2009, she was appointed as a senior research scientist in the Egypt nanotechnology Center (EGNC) in a collaboration project between the Egyptian government and IBM Research; she performed her research at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. During this time, besides performing her research related to carbon nanomaterials, specifically graphene, she was involved in the strategic conceptual design of the EGNC in Cairo. After a short time as a senior research scientist in the R&D division of the Nitto Denko Asia Technical Center (NAT) in Singapore, she joined the Biosensor Technologies Department at the Austrian institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna as a scientist to work on OFET biosensors besides graphene related research. In 2015, she joined the Basic Science Department, Faculty of Engineering at BUE. She taught at the faculty of industrial education in Egypt and at the Bioscience department in Cardiff University.
Dr. Kasry is a corresponding author and co-author of several peer reviewed articles and holds several patent applications in the fields of photonics, optical biosensors, protein-protein interactions, fluorescence spectroscopy and carbon nanomaterials, she is also an author of one book and co-author of seven book chapters. She is regularly invited as a speaker in many national and international meetings and institutes. She is also a reviewer for: AIP, ACS, Wiley, a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) expert, and DAAD programs evaluator (starting 2016) Dr. Amal Kasry is a member of the American Chemical Society, a member of the Max Planck Alumni association (MPAA), and a founder of the MPAA-Egypt group. Since January 2019, she is the ambassador of the MPAA in Egypt. Recently Appointed as a CHIEF of Section for Innovation and Capacity Building in Science and Engineering at UNESCO.
We really think her LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amal-kasry-5bbba55/) does more justice for this titan.
