AMMAN —
Faculty of Engineering at Princes Sumaya University for Technology (
PSUT)
Associate Professor Fadi Shahrouri won second place in the category of Best
Researcher in the Arab World at the World Cup of Invention and Scientific
Research held by Everest International Inventing Organization.
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The event was in
cooperation with the Tunisian Agency for the Promotion of Industry and
Innovation, and supervised by the International Federation of Inventors’ Association,
according to Ad-Dustor News.
The winning
research was the design of a nanotechnology electronic chip that mimics the
work of the pancreas and is implanted in elderly patients to help regulate
blood sugar.
The award
ceremony was held earlier this month in Tunisia, under the auspices of Tunisian
Prime Minister Najla Boudin Romdhane, as part of the “Tunisia TICAD 8” event,
to the eighth Tokyo International Symposium on the Development of Africa.
Shahrour has
received several local and international awards, most notably the 2009 Hisham
Adib Hajjawi Award for Applied Science, and the IEEE Presentation and
Innovation Award for Doctoral Students in 2006.
Shahrouri holds a
bachelor degree in electronic engineering from PSUT, a master’s and Ph.D. from
of NCTU, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of the Royal
Institute of Technology in Sweden.
He has been a
visiting scholar at
Carleton University of Canada, a visiting lecturer at
L’Aquila University of Italy, and a visiting professor at Queen’s University of
the UK.
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