AMPM Center Director, Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi is delighted to announce that Khaled Salama, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, joins AMPM Center.  Khaled research expertise will heighten the Center's mission to contribute to a science-based entrepreneurial economy finding toward creative and sustainable solutions for ever-increasing energy security and environmental sustainability.

"Khaled is collaborating with the AMPM center faculty members for years now and the resultant scientific output is outstanding; certainly having Khaled as a full member of the AMPM Center is a recognition to the importance of the sensing thrust to the AMPM Center", says Prof. Eddaoudi.

Prof. Khaled Salama joined KAUST in 2009 as a founding faculty. He played an important role in University development and he was a founding Chair of Electrical Engineering program until August 2011. Currently, he is the coordinator of KAUST Sensors Initiative, a multi-disciplinary initiative involving 18 faculty members across KAUST's three divisions, mandated to advance sensor technologies and explore novel applications. His research interest at AMPM Center is directed to the development of high-throughput, low-cost, portable chemical and biological sensors for environmental monitoring and industrial applications.

"The use of simple electrode materials that are tightly coupled to Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and sophisticated electronics create highly sensitive programmable sensors. Developing networked systems of tiny wireless and sensing-enabled devices will pave the way to a myriad of new applications. These devices will lead to a significant cost-savings, increased throughput and enable therefore infeasible assays making 'in the field' testing a reality", he explains.

His affiliation with AMPM Center testifies to the importance of cross-disciplines collaboration toward translation research addressing the industry needs. Finding common projects, solving real problems and providing the full solution is a vital drive for Prof. Salama' research interests.

"For the past five years, I have been collaborating on several projects with Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi and Prof. Niveen Khashab, resulting in key findings with great prospective for industrial deployment.   Credibly, our aim in the center now is to focus on developing prototypes and real products with unique functionalities", he concludes.

Prof. Salama obtained his B.Sc. Electronics and Communications Engineering at Cairo University in 1997 and his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Prior to joining KAUST in 2009, Khaled held an Assistant Professor faculty position at  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York.

Learn more about his professional and Academic profile here.