Bio
I am a lecturer in the Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. I studied Geology at Cairo University, where I obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1998. Upon completion of my B.Sc. degree I was immediately appointed as a lab instructor (tenure-track position) in Cairo University. I obtained his M.Sc. degree (mineralogy and petrology) in 2005, at Cairo University and was promoted to be an assistant lecturer. In October 2005, I started his Ph.D. at the University of Windsor in Canada. After a successful defense of my dissertation in August 2009, I returned back to Egypt and took a tenured position as a lecturer in the Geology Department of Cairo University. In December 2011, I was appointed in the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources as an assistant minister for mineral resources in the “Salvation Government” during El-Ganzouri’ second premiership. I resigned in September 2012 and returned back to his position as a lecturer in the Geology Department at Cairo University. Then I got Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship during which I worked as postdoc researcher in the Institute of Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany from March 2014 till Spetember 2015.
I am interested in Geochemistry, Petrology, and Economic Geology. My major research interests are:
- Magmatism and crustal evolution of orogenic belts.
- Understanding mineral deposits environments.
- Archaeometry.