Professor Salah

Professor Salah Obayya
Professor

Professor

Professor of Photonics and Director of the Center for Photonics and Smart Materials, Zewail City Science and Technology.

Education/qualification

  • Ph.D. Joint supervision scheme between the City University London, UK, and Mansoura University, Egypt. (1999)

In his Ph.D. dissertation, he developed a novel finite element- based full-vectorial-beam-propagation algorithm for the analysis of various photonic devices.

  • M.Sc. In electronics and communications engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt. (1994)
  • B.Sc. (with excellent grade) in electronics and communications engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt. (1991)

Work experience

  • Professor of Photonics and Director of the Center for Photonics and Smart Materials (CPSM) at Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt.
  • Full Professorial Chair of Photonics and led the establishment of the “Nano-Photonics Research Centre” at The University of Glamorgan, UK. (October 2008)
  • Readership at School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.
  • Senior Lecturer at School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, West London, U.K. (June 2003-September 2006)
  • Senior Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, City University London.(July 2000- June 2003)

Area of research

Professor Obayya has built an outstanding international reputation in the area of Green NanoPhotonics with focus on the intelligent Computational Modeling of modern nanophotonic devices enabling technologies for efficient generation, distribution and utilization of sustainable energy towards low-carbon green society.

The team led by Professor Obayya has developed one of the world best comprehensive numerical package for the analysis, design and optimization of nanophotonic devices and subsystems for low-carbon sustainable energy issues, where a number of "world-first" numerical approaches have been developed.

He has served the international “Photonics” society through the active contribution to the organization and technical committees of a number of international conferences.

Publications and International Conferences

Professor Obayya has a track record of 106 journal publications mostly in IEEE and IET/IEE, and 130 conference presentations with many of them invited talks, presentations and keynote lectures.

Books

  • Obayya is the author of the book Computational Photonics published by Wiley (New York) in 2010.

Awards

  • The Incentive State Award for Engineering Sciences from the Egyptian Government (2005/2006).

Memberships

  • Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET),
  • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
  • Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
  • Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).
  • Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology FIET (formerly FIEE) (March 2010)
  •  Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), UK. (May 2010)
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Guest Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Optical and Quantum Electronics
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief of ISRN Journal of Applied Mathematics.