Zoubeida Ounaies
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Zoubeida Ounaies is a Tunisian mechanical engineer, whose research involves nanocomposites, smart materials, and piezoelectricity in polymers. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering[1] and with the Institute of Energy and the Environment.[2] At Penn State, she is director of the Convergence Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems,[3][4] and acting director of the Materials Research Institute.[4]
Ounaies grew up in Tunisia, the daughter of an engineer.[5][3] She went to Pennsylvania State University for her undergraduate and graduate education,[5] funded by the Tunisia Technology Transfer Program of the United States Agency for International Development,[6] and completed her Ph.D. in 1996.[7]
After postdoctoral research at NASA's Langley Research Center from 1997 to 2001, she returned to Penn State as a faculty member in 2001.[5] She moved to Texas A&M University in 2005, but returned to Penn State again in 2011.[7]
