Amal Esawi is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Cairo (AUC) specializing in Advanced Materials. She obtained her BSc in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Materials Engineering from the AUC. Upon completing her Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of Cambridge, she worked five years as a research associate with the renowned Materials professor Mike Ashby at the Engineering Design Centre of Cambridge University Engineering Department. She joined the AUC in 2001 upon returning to Egypt. Esawi received the Egyptian National Award in Engineering Sciences in 2009, granted annually by the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in recognition of outstanding research achievements nationwide. She also received the AUC Excellence in Research Endeavors award the same year. Her research interests are in nanocomposites, with a particular interest in developing light and strong materials for structural applications, carbon-nanotube-based sensors and membranes, and carbon-nanotube-based nanofluids. She was recently recognized among the top 2% of impactful scientists globally in the Stanford University Elsevier study. On the professional level, she is a Chartered Engineer registered with the Engineering Council in the United Kingdom, the first female Chartered Mechanical Engineer in Egypt, and a member of the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).