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Hala Al Khazndar

Hala Al Khazndar

Sector : Science, Scientists

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Female
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Hala Jarallah Numan Al-Khaznadar is a Palestinian physicist born in Gaza. She is a PhD professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems at the Islamic University of Gaza. She has won many prestigious awards such as the Scientific Research Award for Natural Sciences (2010); ISESCO Science and Technology Award (2014), Research and Teaching Excellence Award from the World Academy of Sciences and Technology for the Development of Science in Developing Countries (2015). She is a member of the International Association of Muslim Women in Science, the Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World, the Alumni Association in the Gaza Strip, and a founding member of the Palestinian Women in Science Platform, which focuses on raising awareness and encouraging girls to engage in scientific research while working to increase the number of girls in scientific fields; She says, "We are working to promote the goals of the mother platform by supporting the presence of girls in scientific disciplines and providing them with grants, and currently we are seeking to form special committees that provide local support and opportunities for women and girls to motivate them to go to science, and to break the gap in this field. I motivate girls to do it, people don’t want girls to study it, but it controls many aspects of our lives, from remote control to electrical circuits related to mobile phones, electric power and alternative energy.”

 

her postgraduate studies

Hala Al-Khaznadar received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Birzeit University in 1987, a Master’s degree in 1995 from New Mexico State University in the United States of America, and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1999. In 2000, she joined the Islamic University of Gaza to work in electrical engineering.

 

its scientific output

She published more than a hundred scientific papers, through which she highlighted her scientific output, starting with the study of optical fibers and their applications in communications and optical sensors; Through the study of meta-material and its applications in many fields, especially in communications, and then studying the characteristics of transmission lines for microwaves, especially in the presence of Schottky rectifier and resonant rectifier.

Achievements and Awards

Awards

Scientific Research Award for Natural Sciences (2010).

ISESCO Prize for Science and Technology (2014).

Research and Teaching Excellence Award from the World Academy of Sciences and Technology for the Development of Science in Developing Countries (2015).

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