Sara Abdelsalam

Vision statement

The greatest mission I see is to encourage fundraising, strategies and programs that promote the brightest minds, foster scientific excellence, increase scientific collaborations, inspire research leadership and accelerate innovation. This will improve lives and shift the center of gravity for the young researchers who cannot find good opportunities (especially in areas that suffer from racism). I believe that OWSD is an excellent platform that can help establish great development for those researchers in rural areas.

Since I have always suffered from the rarity of opportunities as a mathematicians, my plan is to make use of the connections and networking provided by OWSD to work on projects that will have significant impact on several scientific and application domains including scientific excellence and research outreach. Such projects involve difficulties that are expected to be facilitated by raising broad awareness between researchers from different fields. Building capacity between group members is also crucial in order for the challenges and possible solutions to be tackled.

I hope I can raise broad awareness towards the communication among women scientists and technologists in developing countries. I also wish to increase the access of women in science and encourage everyone to embrace diversity.

Candidate’s bio

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, 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 in the University of California Riverside and in Caltech in 2015-2016. She was then awarded the BUE Best Publication award and the BUE Early Research Career award in 2017-2018 and 2019-2020, respectively. Dr. Sara was also granted the TWAS-UNESCO Associateship to visit the Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, in summer 2017 and in 2019. She has also been nominated by The World Academy of Sciences to attend The Future Leaders Programme and the STS forum by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2018. She has been selected by the Fundación de Mujeres Por Africa for a fellowship program at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Madrid in 2020. She has also been selected by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP for) a fellowship in the Lebanese University in 2021 and been selected by the Royal Academy of Engineering for the Leaders in Innovation programme (LIF7). Dr Sara is an affiliate member in the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) since 2020 and a member in the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) since 2021. She has also won the State Encouragement Award in Mathematics for 2020, the Obada Award in 2020 and an honorable mention for the Bellman Prize by the Mathematical Biosciences journal, Elsevier, in 2021. She is further an international journal reviewer to many journals, a member in the editorial board of some peer reviewed journals, and a member in the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing Countries, a member in the Egyptian Mathematical Society, and a member in the International Society of Muslim Women in Science. Dr Sara is currently focusing on solving problems of peristaltic transport that tackles bionanofluids inside the human body.