Dashboard – I'm a Scientist 2024

About Me:

I live in Leeds with my cat, wife and two children. I enjoy gardening and reading books (or just learning!)
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As a medical engineer, my specific role now is in developing components for treating broken bones, but I used to work in repairing all kinds of medical equipment at a hospital. I also love learning about stuff! Because of that I went on to doing postgraduate studies until I completed a PhD.

When at home, I’m either gardening, reading, or watching anime (cartoons)! I learn a whole lot from doing these things all of these things, even from cartoons!

Also, I’m Arab, from a country called Syria. So, I can speak English, but Arabic is my original language.
My Work:

I’m called a Product Development Engineer!
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As a product development engineer, my job is to go through a design or a medical component and make sure it’s safe and that people who are going to use it are going to be happy with it. To do this, I work with many smart people. Together we make a team and help each other solve all kinds of engineering problems.
My special power is using a computer to do complicated maths and predict how a component will act if we tried to break it on purpose!
My Typical Day:

In a typical day, I’d be reading many documents and running experiments on my computer.
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My typical day consists of helping my friends at work who often come to me with problems and questions (as I do too!).
I go through documents and drawings and send them out for people to sign them!

Also, I run many experiments on my computer and then analyse the results and share them with team members. So, they can use my results in their work!
What I'd do with the prize money:

I would donate it to my kids’ school, with an agreement with them to provide some coding and/or computing resources, such as tablets, a programmable lego set, development boards and associated components, introductory coding books, etc.

I can even volunteer tutoring interested teachers and students on weekends, using these resources.

Candidate CV questions (extra)

Education:

I went to school abroad, in Saudi Arabia to be specific!
There, the educational path is set to 6 years of primary school, 3 years of middle school then finally 3 more years of high school.

After finishing school I travelled to a country called (Jordan), where I went to university and got a Bachelor Degree in Medical Engineering. In Jordan, an engineering degree needs at least 5 years, I struggled a bit so did it in 6 and 1/2 years.
Then, I went back to Saudi Arabia where I worked at a company as a Service Engineer. At that company I used to fix medical lasers.

From there I moved to another country called (United Arab Emirate), where I worked at a hospital and used to fix many different kinds of medical equipment.
Then, I travelled all the way to the United Kingdom, where I did a Master of Science in Medical Engineering course at the University of Leeds. Then, sometime after I finished that, I went back to the University of Leeds through a full scholarship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and did an Integrated Master and PhD in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine – Innovation in Medical and Biological Engineering.

While doing my first Masters, I worked as a Personal Tutor, where I taught and Arabic and Islamic studies, biomechanics, and some maths. I also volunteered as a Patient Research Ambassador at the Renal Department at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield at the time.

During the integrated Masters and PhD, I worked for a few years as a Laboratory Demonstrator at the university, where I helped students learn mechanical simulations. I also published a scientific article about my PhD work.

Finally, I became a Product Development Engineer at a company called Invibio (also named Victrex), and will soon finish my PhD.
Qualifications:

Coming from abroad, probably my school qualifications will not mean much to you, and they don’t actually have special names, they’re just middle school and high school certificates!
Further qualifications are,

1-Bachelor of Engineering (BEng.) with Fisr-Class Honours.

2-Master of Science (MSc.)

3-Integrated MSc. and PhD (Expected finish in July 2024)
Work History:
- A few service engineering trainee roles
- Biomedical Service Engineer
- Biomedical (Clinical) Engineer
- Personal Tutor
- Laboratory Demonstrator
Current Job:
- Product Development Engineer
Employer:

Invibio Biomaterial Solutions (A Victrex Ltd. Company)

My Interview
- How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
  
  Engineer, friendly, passionate
  
  What did you want to be after you left school?
  
  A Veterinarian
  
  Were you ever in trouble at school?
  
  Sure!
  
  If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
  
  A veterinarian
  
  If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
  
  Being smarter, being richer, going to Heaven
  
  Tell us a joke.
  
  I need a context for this to work :)