Amal contributed to the project from 2021-2023 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Alabama. Her research couples engineering modeling approaches with qualitative analysis methods to gain new insights into socio-technical infrastructure systems (primarily water-sector infrastructure) to improve access to basic services for underserved communities in the U.S. and developing nations. Through exploring the epistemic uncertainty of these systems’ operating environments—e.g., social, financial, institutional—her research seeks to achieve inclusive humanitarian response and development strategies, improve infrastructure resilience for equitable service provision, and maintain sustainable living conditions in these communities. Amal holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in Engineering Management from the American University of Beirut, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Beirut Arab University. She is now assistant professor in the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&M University.

Bio current as of Oct. 25, 2023