Dr. Mai Osama Sallam
Associate Professor
Faculty Office Ext.
1752
Faculty Building
UB1
Office Number
303
Dr. Mai received her B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Ain Shams University, her M.Sc. degree in Physics from The American University in Cairo (AUC), and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.
She is an Associate Professor at Nile University. Her research interests include antenna design, computational electromagnetics, plasmonics, and nanophotonics, with applications in wireless communications, 5G/6G, and electromagnetic sensing. She has authored and co-authored a US patent and numerous peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences.
Dr. Mai has received several international research awards and grants, including the Nokia Bell Scientific Prize, ECAP–TICRA Grant, COMSTECH Research Grant, and APS–EPS–ICTP Travel Award Fellowship. She was a Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program scholar at The University of Texas at Austin in 2022 and a Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven in 2025. She has been an Associate Member of the International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) since 2024 and visited ICTP in 2026 as part of the ICTP Associateship programme (2024–2029).
- OIC-COMSTECH Research Grant for Young Women Researchers (2025-2026)
- APS–EPS–ICTP Travel Award Fellowship (2025)
- ECAP-TICRA Grant for Early Careers in Antennas and Propagation (2024)
- Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Fellowship, University of Texas in Austin (2022).
- Nokia Bell Scientific Prize, Belgium (2018).
- Highest GPA award, The American University in Cairo (2011).
- Electromagneitcs and antennas
- Computational electromagnetics
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Plasmonics and Nanophotonics
Plasmonic Sensors for Biomedical and Infra-Red Detection Application
Terahertz Metamaterial Structures for Biomedical Sensing Applications
