Amany Fekry
Egyptian chemist
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Amany Mohamed Fekry is an Egyptian physical chemist.
Amany Fekry | |
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| Occupation | Chemist |
| Spouse | Khalid Essa |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (2020) |
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| Discipline | Chemistry |
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| Institutions | Cairo University |
She became a professor of physical chemistry at the Cairo University Department of Chemistry.[1] She also spent some time abroad at University of Lorraine, where she was part of the electroanalytical group for a Science and Technology Development Fund grant in collaboration with France,[1] and also was a postdoctoral fellow at the GeoRessources laboratory.[2]
She specializes in nanoscience and electrochemistry,[3] and she has authored several articles on the latter in Electrochimica Acta[4][5][6] and New Journal of Chemistry.[7] By 2022, she had authored at least a hundred scholarly articles, as well as an h-index of 33.[8]
She won several awards in basic sciences, specifically a 2010 Cairo University Encouraging Award, a 2012 Country Encouraging Award, and 2020 Cairo University Scientific Excellence Award.[2] In 2018, she became a qualitative council member of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.[1] In 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in Chemical Sciences.[1] She was one of the recipients of the 2021 Obada Prize.[2]
Her husband, Khalid Essa, is a geophysicist who also works as a professor at the University of Cairo, and they have three daughters.[9]