Jawaher Almutlaq

Background and Experience

Dr. Almutlaq received her Bachelor's degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 2015. Her B.S. thesis was on the additive manufacturing of metals for the next generation of spaceships, in collaboration with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. In 2015, she joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Osman Bakr. Her research focused on investigating the synthesis, structural and optical properties of perovskites and lead-free materials for light-emitting applications. For her work, she was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 2020. Dr. Almutlaq was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Dirk Englund in the MIT department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.