Rula Abdallat received her B.Sc in Biomedical Engineering from Hashemite University (Zarqa, Jordan) in 2005 and her M.Sc (2007) and Ph.D. (2012) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Surrey (UK). She is currently an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hashemite University. Her research interests include dielectrophoresis and its applications for cell characterization and cell sorting, biomaterials and biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering, and gait analysis.