Sherif Abdou

  • Program Graduate

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  • WIRB, 7th Floor

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Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
MASc, Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Biography

A budding entrepreneur with a mechanical engineering background and a passion for interdisciplinary sciences. Sherif completed his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from McMaster University in 2014 where he developed a novel micropump for microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip applications. Since then Sherif has been involved with a startup company in the automotive field before co-founding his own company in 2017 to commercialize an innovative pumping/aeration technology developed at the University of Guelph. Sherif specializes in numerical modelling of engineering systems as well as computational fluid dynamics modelling of thermo-fluid systems. In 2019, he launched a new company to help other businesses adopt and utilize numerical modelling in their product design and development process. Sherif is passionate about technologies and applications that bridge the gaps between different sciences.