DrAhmed M. Eissa

Dr Eissa is a Senior Lecturer of Organic (Biological & Pharmaceutical) Chemistry in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Ahmed studied Chemistry for his first degree at Ain-Shams University in Cairo, graduating with Honours and finishing third top of his year. Following a three year spell in pro squash and badminton tours, he returned to science to pursue a career in academia. In 2005, he successfully completed his M.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry at Ain–Shams University, Cairo and was appointed as a Research Associate in the National Research Centre in Cairo which is the largest multidisciplinary R&D centre in Egypt devoted to basic and applied research within the major fields of interest. In 2006, Ahmed was awarded a fully funded Ph.D. studentship and moved west to carry out his Ph.D. studies at Durham University, UK, graduating in 2011 with a thesis titled “Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Biopolymers via ‘Click’ Chemistry”, under the supervision of Dr. Ezat Khosravi. Between 2011 and 2014, as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the group of Prof. Neil Cameron at Durham, he was able to translate his synthetic organic polymer skills to design macromolecules and materials that interfere or mimic biological processes, leading to therapeutic or biotechnological applications. In September 2014, Ahmed took up a research fellowship position in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, UK, with an adjunct position at Monash University, Australia. In this role, Ahmed embarked his independent research career in the area of Biomedical Polymer Materials. In 2018, Ahmed was promoted to a Senior Research Fellow (Group Leader) and appointed in the Department of Chemistry at Warwick, working with Prof. David Haddleton where he made important multidisciplinary and cross-department connections as well as links with internal and external biomedical scientists and clinicians and further developed his independent research profile. In 2021, he was granted the title of Assistant Professor and appointed as a Fellow of the EUTOPIA Young Leaders Academy.

Dr Eissa subsequently took up a lectureship position at the University of Wolverhampton in April 2022, recently promoted to Senior Lecturer and became an Honorary Associate Professor in the University of Warwick where he continues supervising his Warwick-based PhD students and leading collaborative research projects.