Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor Dana Alsulaiman

Principal Investigator

Research Interests: biosensors, PNA, biomarkers, microneedles, electrochemical biosensors, hydrogels, 2D nanomaterials, microRNA

Research Scientist

Erol Ahmed Hasan

Research Scientist

Research Interests: polymer chemistry, peptide chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, stimuli-responsive materials, sustainable technology

Postdoctoral Fellow

Somayah Qutub

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: cancer therapy, cellular uptake, smart nanomaterials, targeted delivery

Fatimah Samman

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab Manager

Muhsin Ali

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: biosensors, MXene, functionalization, miRNA, peptide nucleic acid (PNA)

Ph.D. Student

Duruo Mao

Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

Research Interests: nanopore, peptide nucleic acid (PNA), microRNA, single molecule sensing

Jorge Romero Dominguez

Ph.D Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Ghanimah Abuhaimed

Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: MEMS, out-of-plane, resonators, bio-sensors

Haoliang Lu

Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

Research Interests: microfluidics, hydrogel particles, POC biosensing

Wildan Hanif

Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

Research Interests: hydrogel, polymeric biomaterials, cancer therapeutic & diagnostic, DNA nanotechnology, tissue engineering, gene therapy

Yuming Jin

Ph.D. Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: molecular diagnosis, electrochemical biosensors, capacitive sensors, portable microfluidic devices

Past Members

Hiba Khan (SRSI Summer Student 2025, Grade 12 student at The KAUST School (TKS))

Sharat Chandra Barman (Postdoctoral fellow)

Wejdan Alghamdi (Postdoctoral fellow, now: Senior Process Engineer at ASM, Belgium)

Ayeesha Mujeeb (Research Specialist, now: Research Scientist at The Splash Lab KAUST)

Bibi Khadija (PhD student)

Daisy Camargo Ferreira (PhD student, now: Application Specialist at P.E.O. B.V., Netherlands)

Gillian Koehl (Visiting Student, Fall 2023, PhD candidate at Imperial College London, UK)

Faisal Alsulaiman (Visiting Student, Nov 2023-Jan 2024, King's College London, UK)

Ella Beattie-Edwards (Visiting Student, Summer 2023, M.Eng student at Bioengineering Imperial College London, UK)

Jaume Margalef Rieres (Visiting Student, Summer 2023, now: MD student at Cambridge University, UK)

Tia Abbas (Visiting Student, Fall 2022-Summer 2023, PhD candidate at Imperial College London, UK)

Sarah Alsawaf (PhD Student)