Dr. Marwa El-Sayed is an assistant professor in Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and the director of the Sustainability and Environmental Engineering Laboratory (SEEL). El-Sayed’s research interests lie in characterizing the processes and sources of air pollutants in the atmosphere to better understand how humans perturb these processes to ultimately quantify their impact on climate change, policy making, and human health. With over a dozen publications and presentations at national and international conferences, El-Sayed was honored as the Department of Civil Engineering Researcher of the Year in 2024. Her current work receives funding from the US EPA, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Department of Energy’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
El-Sayed earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and holds an M.Sc. in Sustainable Engineering from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She also holds an M.Sc., and a B.Sc. with honors in Chemical Engineering from Cairo University in Egypt. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Atmospheric Science Department of Colorado State University. El-Sayed served as a Director of the Environmental Division at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 2020-2023, and a member of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)’s Board of Directors, and a member of the Associate Board of Directors of the Earth Science Women’s network (ESWN).