User talk:Hayat Sindi

Hayat Sindi serves as Vice Chairman at Nano-Terra. She is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University where she works with Professor George Whitesides at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; in addition, she attends the MBA program at Harvard Business School in Commercializing Science & High Technology.

Dr. Sindi earned her B.Sc (Hones) in Pharmacology from King's College University and her PhD from Cambridge University where she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the International School of Medicine. For her contributions, she was invited by HRH Prince Philip to become a member of the Royal College of Teachers.

Hayat founded Sonoptix Technology in the UK with Saudi Arabian seed funding. She then became Senior Research Scientist for Biotechnology at Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Biological and Chemical Science, Exeter University.

As the first female from the Gulf to earn a PhD in biotechnology, Dr. Sindi has been an inspirational figure for many young female students to pursue science majors in the Middle East and abroad, and especially in her home country of Saudi Arabia. She presented a new image of the Saudi female scientist when she spoke at USC Berkeley and the Gulf Women Conference in London, and as a spokeswoman for international and national television and radio interviews, including the BBC, Al Arabia, and The Times.