ESU LAB - Key Persons


Ahmad Mokhtar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant
  • Teaching Assistant / Media Committee

Ahmad Salah

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Lecturer
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Assistant Lecturer / Organization Committee

Ahmed Khalil

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Lecturer
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Assistant Lecturer / Organization Committee
Ahmed is an assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt.

Ahmed Nabih

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Lecturer
  • Assistant Lecturer Co - Founder
  • Assistant Lecturer Co - Founder Br / Scientific Committee

Areej Kiwan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant
Beside her work in architecture, Areej is a professional photographer and architectural editor at Egyptian Researchers.

Doaa Ahmed Naiem

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Media Team

Dr. Mina Samaan - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Lecturer
  • Lecturer Co - Founder / Director
  • Lecturer Co - Founder Br / Director
Dr. Samaan obtained the degrees of B.Sc. and Msc. in Architectural Engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt, in 2008 and 2013 respectively. During his masters studies, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Mansoura University, and he focused in his thesis on the optimization of energy-efficient educational spaces in Egyptian universities using building performance simulation tools. He was able to master such tools through conducting two three-month research projects at the Technical University of Dresden and the Florida International University in 2011 and 2012 respectively. In addition, Mina led the team who won the first-place prize at the Taking Leave International Competition that was organized by the British University of Egypt in April 2012 addressing the challenges of urban planning across Egypt.

Dr.-Ing. Mahmoud Gadelhak

Job Titles:
  • Architect
  • Researcher
  • Researcher and Lecturer in Ain Shams University
Dr.-Ing. Mahmoud Gadelhak is an architect, researcher and lecturer in Ain Shams University, Egypt. He holds a PhD degree in Architecture with a specialization in Sustainable and Energy efficient Buildings and Design from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He worked as a researcher and lecturer in different institutes such as Ain Shams University, The American University in Cairo, The British University in Egypt, Texas A&M University, and the Technical University of Munich. His main research interests focus on: energy efficient buildings, sustainable design and optimization as well as Building information modeling (BIM) and computational design.

Dr.-Ing. Moamen elSoudani - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Director
  • Co - Founder Br / Director
  • Lecturer Co - Founder / Director

Dr.-Ing. Mohanad Fouda

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Lecturer & LEED Green Associate / Organization Committee
  • Lecturer & LEED Green Associate Br / Organization Committee

Hellen Naeem Fouad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant

Liss C Werner

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair for Bio - Inspired Architecture and Sensoric, CyPhyLab BIAS

Loay Alaa Mohamed

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Senior Researcher, ESU - Lab Cairo
  • Senior Researcher, ESU - Lab Cairo / Senior Researcher, ESU - Lab Cairo

Mahmoud Ramadan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Lecturer
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Assistant Lecturer Co - Founder
  • Assistant Lecturer Co - Founder Br / Committees Coordinator

Mai Adel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant
  • Teaching Assistant Br / Media Team

Mamdouh Elmenshawy

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT LECTURER CO - FOUNDER
  • Assistant Lecturer Co - Founder Br / Committees Coordinator

Marwa Morad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Media Team
Marwa is interested in sustainable architecture and furniture design. she has won the first prize in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Internship by TIEC. she is a pre member in ENACTUS AU and a project member in ELSA.

MAS ETH

Job Titles:
  • Partner / CAM Specialist at CORA

Menna Rehan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Member of the Scientific Committee

Mennat Allah Mohamed

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Media Team

Mohamed ElDabosy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Scientific Committee

Mohamed Moharam - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Co - Founder Br / Scientific Committee

Mokhtar Hosny Akl

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Lecturer
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • ASSISTANT LECTURER CO - FOUNDER
  • ASSISTANT LECTURER CO - FOUNDER / Br COMMITTEES COORDINATOR / Assistant Lecturer Co - Founder

Nada Wagdy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
Nada Wagdy studied architecture at Architecture department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University.

Prof. Claus Steffan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Building Technology and Design at the TU Berlin

Prof. Sherif Sheta

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Prof. Sherif Sheta is an Associate Professor and BSc in Architectural Engineering, Department of Architectural Engineering, Mansoura University, where he had been employed since 1993. Sheta received both his PhD and MSc from Mansoura University, Egypt, and BSc from the Department of Architecture, Alexandria University in 1991. He worked as a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Systems, East Carolina University (2007-08), served as Vice Dean in the Faculty of Engineering at Delta University for Science and Technology (2009-10), and currently delegated as Vice Dean for Education and Students Affairs and Head of the Architecture Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Mansoura University. His research focuses on sustainable architecture, design development and criticism in theories and techniques; heritage planning, and interrelated socio-economic challenges for future cities. He also Provided and shared thoughts in developing sustainable measures for a knowledge-based society in accordance with East Carolina University Long-term Goals (2006-10) in the USA, he worked as Egypt coordinator/liaison officer (for Egypt) of the Middle Eastern North African Sustainable Habitat Development Association (MENASHDA). He had DAAD - Scholarship Award at the REAP WORKSHOP: International Development in Cairo - held at HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU), Hamburg, Germany, October 1st -14th 2012, DAAD - Scholarship Award, sponsored participation in the Summer School of TU Ilmenau: Apr 25th to May 1st 2011, DAAD's sponsored participation at the Youth Forum in Berlin, November 5-8th 2008. He Initiated as a member of the Honorary Beta Mu Chapter of Epsilon Pi Tau (Who's Who Directory), Dec. 2007 to date. He also had the Schroff Participation Grant (SPG) Award Winner, 2007, DAAD - Scholarship Award; sponsored Participation in the Summer School: August 19th to 31st 2007, University Awards for best PhD Thesis in 2003, and Best MSc Thesis in 1998. He also participated in Two DAAD' Study Trips to Germany as a supervisor (university teacher), to groups of 15 students/each; 2010 & 2012.

Reem Elnady

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Research Assistant
Reem works as a Teaching Assistant in Architecture Engineering department, Horus University. She is MSc student at Architecture Engineering department, Mansoura University, title of research "sustainable vision for urban development of coastal slums in Egypt". She participated at the research project titled ´Delta-TU Partnership´, Delta Technical-Urban Partnership for Environmental, Social, and Urban Quality, funded by DAAD. Reem is an active member of Women and Society Development Association, Damietta,Egypt.

Saly Abdou

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant <br/> Scientific Committee <br/> Media Team

Sara Adel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant

Sara Elgamal

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant at the Department of Architectural Engineering at Mansoura
Sara Elgamal is a teaching assistant at the department of Architectural Engineering at Mansoura University. Sara has also participated in several local and international research projects related to the topics of Mobility, Social Housing and Urban Regeneration.

Sherief Sheta

Job Titles:
  • Supervisor
  • Associate Professor Co - Founder / Supervisor
  • Supervisor of ESU - LAB, EGYPT

Sherif Tarabishy

Job Titles:
  • Associate - Applied Research and Development, Foster Partners
  • Associate - Applied Research and Development, Foster Partners / Associate - Applied Research and Development, Foster Partners / Visiting Lecturer, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Shrouk Khedr

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant

Walid Yaseen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Media Team
  • Member of the Scientific Committee
  • Teaching Assistant

Zvonko Vugreshek

Job Titles:
  • Designer
Zvonko is a computational designer currently working as an Assistant Lecturer at TU Berlin, chair of Bio-Inspired Architecture and Sensorics. Zvonko is a computational designer currently working as an Assistant Lecturer at TU Berlin, chair of Bio-Inspired Architecture and Sensorics. His interest lies in creating solutions for optimised and feasible designs considering the environmental, economic and social factors unique to the site and local requirements. In general, he is interested on the entire design-to-production process. He has been involved in many workshops, webinars and lectures aiming to popularize the use of computational design, digital fabrication and machine learning.