Education:

• July 2022:  M.Sc. in Bio-Medical Physics, Physics department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt in co-operation with NTRC at The British University in Egypt (BUE).
  Title: “Highly Selective Graphene-Nanocomposite Biosensor for Protein Detection”.

• Sep 2019- Aug 2020: Pre-master’s degree in Bio-Medical Physics, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. Pre-master’s program GPA: (A-)

• June 2019:  Bachelor of Science in Bio-Medical Physics, Physics department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. Accumulated grade: Excellent 87.9% (1st place)

• Graduation Thesis: “The effect of laser on liposomes as a cell membrane model with lycopene”, Graduation project grade: Excellent.

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Work experience:

August 2022 – Present: Full-Time Assistant Researcher (AR) at Nanotechnology Research Centre (NTRC), at the British University in Egypt (BUE).

April 2021- July 2022: Full-Time Research Assistant (RA) at Nanotechnology Research Centre (NTRC), at the British University in Egypt (BUE).

December 2020-March 2021: Volunteering Research Assistant (RA) at Nanotechnology Research Centre (NTRC) at the British University in Egypt (BUE).

Sep 2019-May 2020: Part-time Teaching Assistant (TA) at Physics department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

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Research:

• Material Science – nanocomposite synthesis for biosensing applications: carbon-based materials, metal oxides, and polymer composites.

• Crystallographic analysis.

• Operation of X-ray Diffractometer (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) devices.

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Awards:

• Young Researcher Award in The Third International Online Conference on Molecular Modeling and Spectroscopy (ICMMS3) for her Oral Talk at the conference (Application of Modified Graphene as a Biosensor

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Publications:

• Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dg7Ck90AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• Hegazy, M.A., Ezzat, H.A., Yahia, I.S., Zahran, H.Y., Elhaes, H., Matar, H. and Ibrahim, M., 2021. Effect of Metal Oxides and Graphene Upon The Electronic Properties of Polyvinyl Alcohol.

• Badry, R., Hegazy, M.A., Yahia, I.S., Elhaes, H., Zahran, H.Y., Abdel-Salam, A.I., Matar, H. and Ibrahim, M.A., 2022. Enhancing the Optical Properties of Starch/ZnO Nanocomposites using Graphene Oxide. Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, 65(7), pp.335-342.

• Abd-Elbaki, M. K., Matar, H. A., & Ismaeel, N. R. (2022). Preparation and Characterization of Silk Fibroin-PANI Nanocomposites and Their Application for Electrophysiological Signals Recording. American Journal of Agricultural Science, Engineering, and Technology, 6(3), 142-149.