Overview

Speakers

The program

SPEAKERS

Ameenah Farhan

Acting Director - Research Directorate, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Kuwait city

Biography

Dr. Farhan is currently the Head of Physics Department at Kuwait University and Director of Research Directorate at Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science. She also serves as a Senior Advisor to Director General at KFAS and on the Board of Trustees of the Jaber Al-Ahmed Center for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. She was also the Vice Dean for Research and Laboratories Affairs, in the Faculty of Sciences at Kuwait University. Her research interests include Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics, Nuclear Data Evaluation, and Environmental Radioactivity, where her contributions have led to several publications in these fields. She is also a member of the American Physical Society, and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Since 2015, she has served as a Jury member of “L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science-Middle East. Professor Farhan is passionate about, and is an advocate for, physics education, especially in its promotion and enhancement at the undergraduate and graduate level.