Abu Dhabi’s ASPIRE announces four visiting international professorships in energy, aerospace, mobility, and sustainability

Abu Dhabi’s ASPIRE announces four visiting international professorships in energy, aerospace, mobility, and sustainability

Abu Dhabi-UAE – In line with its vision of building a world-class R&D hub in Abu Dhabi, ASPIRE, today announced four Visiting International Professorships (ViPs). With AED10 million of research funding, the program has attracted the highest-caliber researchers from leading global institutes to build international networks and further advance meaningful research in priority areas for the Emirate.

Khalifa University (KU) will host two ‘Established Researcher’ ViPs, who possess extensive international credentials in their research areas. Professor Hany Farag, with expertise in sustainable transport solutions, will join KU from York University, Canada. During his tenure at KU, he will collaborate on research focused on distributed energy resources, such as electric, gas, and hydrogen transport systems, to implement a unified smart energy framework.

The second ViP to be based at KU is Professor Huai Wang, from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, who holds expertise in the research field of power electronics. He will collaborate with peers at KU to address long-standing challenges in the reliability and operational efficiency of power electronic converters applied in energy systems using tools such as physics-informed Artificial Intelligence (AI). KU will provide both visiting professors with access to its best research teams to facilitate their efforts in achieving impactful