Dr Sara Abdelsalam is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Science, at Helwan University in 2013. In 2014, she was awarded The Best PhD Thesis in Applied Mathematics from the Egyptian Mathematical Society. She received the Fulbright Scholar award to conduct her research at the University of California Riverside and Caltech in 2015 and 2016, respectively. She was then awarded the British University in Egypt Best Publication award and the British University in Egypt Early-Research Career award in 2018 and 2020, respectively.
Dr Abdelsalam was also granted The World Academy of Sciences - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (TWAS-UNESCO) Associateship to visit the Instituto de Matemáticas, University of Namibia (UNAM), in the summer of 2017 and in 2019. She has also been nominated by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) to attend The Future Leaders Programme and the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2018. She has also been selected by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for a fellowship at the Lebanese University in 2021 and has been selected by the Royal Academy of Engineering for the Leaders in Innovation programme (LIF7-Newton Mosharafa fund). She has been selected by the Fundación de Mujeres Por Africa for a fellowship program at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Madrid in 2022 and 2023.
Dr Abdelsalam is an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) since 2020 and a member of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) since 2021. She has recently been selected as an ambassador to represent Egypt in the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) in 2023. She has also won the State Encouragement Award in Mathematics for 2020, the Obada Award in 2021 and an honourable mention for the Bellman Prize by the Mathematical Biosciences journal, Elsevier, in 2021. She has also been awarded the TWAS Arab Regional Award for Science Diplomacy in 2022. Dr Abdelsalam has been recognized among the top 2% of highly-cited scientists by Stanford University in two successive years. She is further an international journal reviewer to many journals, a member of the editorial board of some peer-reviewed journals, a member of the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing Countries, a member of the Egyptian Mathematical Society and a member of the International Society of Muslim Women in Science. Dr Abdelsalam is currently focusing on solving problems of peristaltic transport that tackles bio-nanofluids inside the human body.
