About Alaa Selim
Alaa Emad El-Din Selim is a researcher/PhD candidate in electrical power and energy engineering field and an application design engineer at Schneider Electric Egypt, and water and energy Activist at the Medywat network supervised by Center of Mediterranean Integration (CMI) where he worked in integrating renewable energy resources with sustainable blue growth economy. He has also participated and volunteered in many capacity building programs in Egypt like YouthinkGreen, Marj3 fellowship, Ihyaa Academy, AIESEC Egypt, Engineeus, IEEEXTREME Egypt, Erasmus WESET program and FES/CEDARE sustainability program. These programs have allowed him to work directly in youth development for many areas such as energy and environmental awareness, mentoring, coaching and technology applications. He received his BS degree and MSc. in Electrical Power Engineering at Ain Shams University in 2016 and 2020 respectively. He has performed his research internship at Regional center for renewable energy and energy efficiency( 2018), where he contributed to its publications and participated in many international and local conferences as a speaker for the 8th Annual HOMER MIcrogrid conference in USA and a publication author for the annual international Conferences (2016-2018) on Solar Energy Solutions " hosted by the American University in Cairo and Research Institute for Sustainable Development(RISE). His current research interests are in sustainable cities, renewable resources modeling and applications, electric vehicle powertrain design, power management systems using AI and optimization algorithms.