A young researcher in the spotlight: Niveen M. Khashab

October 9, 2019

People in the spotlight

After a B.S. degree of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 2002, Niveen obtained her PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Alan R. Katritzky. From 2007 to 2009 she was a postoctoral fellow, first at Northwestern University, then at University of California, Los Angeles, with Sir Fraser Stoddart. She has been Assistant Professor in KAUST since 2010. She has received several awards during her carrer, including the Crow Award for Creativity in Organic Chemistry 2004, Teaching Effectiveness Award 2004 and 2005, AlMaraai Innovation Award in Bio-nanotechnology 2013, L’Oreal Women in Science Award 2017, and she was nominated for the ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Young Investigator award in 2017.

ISGS is an international, interdisciplinary, not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose and objective is the advancement of sol-gel science and technology. ISGS aims are both to represent the particular needs and aspirations of the international sol-gel community and to support this sol-gel community.

Since the inception of the highly successful Sol-Gel Workshop series in Padova during 1981, sol-gel science and technology has evolved from its origins within traditional materials science (mainly glass and ceramics) to become an extraordinarily multidisciplinary area of research, spanning chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and nanotechnology.

ISGS, grouping of scientists who are interested in sol-gel science and technology at the begining, evolved over time in a professional, fully functional, scientific society.