BIOGRAPHY
Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli is the President of the German Jordanian University, in Amman, Jordan. He is a Professor of mechanical engineering at the mechatronics engineering department at the German Jordanian University. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mu’tah University, Jordan in 1999, a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 2001, a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 2007 and a habilitation degree with Venia Legendi on microfluidics from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at the “Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU BS)” in Germany in 2013. In 2005, Dr. Al-Halhouli received a DAAD scholarship to conduct his Ph.D. research in the area of viscous micropumps at the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT) of TU BS. Between 2007 and 2013, he was working as a research associate and lecturer at IMT. During the summer of 2014, he was a visiting scientist at Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He was a visiting Professor at the Nano lab of Tufts University, USA in June 2015 and has a visiting scholar status at IMT since Feb. 2013. He was the Dean of the School of Applied Technical Sciences and the Dean of the School of Applied Humanities and Languages at GJU. He served as vice president and then president of the Middle East University in Amman, Jordan between 2019-2021. Dr. Al-Halhouli believes on the concept of “from idea to product”, therefore he established the Nanolab @ GJU on May 2016 and currently leading several R&D projects with national and international colleagues and companies.
Dr. Al-Halhouli has special interest in customized electromechanical systems and their design, simulation, fabrication and testing, such as microfluidic systems for biomedical applications, high throughput rare cells separation utilizing inertial microfluidics, food and water monitoring and point of care (POC) diagnostics for low resource settings. He has novel projects on inkjet printed electronics, and nanomaterials for future energy. Moreover, Dr. Al-Halhouli is the general coordinator of one Erasmus+ capacity-building project on Socio-economic impact of renewable energy and energy efficiency (named DESIRE) and partner in two other projects on smart grid, environment and climate change.
Dr. Al-Halhouli published more than 70 papers in international Journals and conference proceedings. He received several Awards such as the GJU distinguished researcher Award, Amman, 2014, Best Poster Award in the MEMS Alliance Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 2009, and the Cray Award for the best-published paper in Microtechnology/Microsystem technology, Braunschweig, Germany, 2007.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Mechanical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman.
Mechanical Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman.
Mechanical Engineering, Mu’tah University, Jordan
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Special interest in microfluidic systems for biomedical applications and their design, simulation, fabrication and testing. Inkjet printed electronics, nanomaterials for future energy, high throughput rare cells separation utilizing inertial microfluidics and foil based BioMEMS (Lab-on-a-Foil) for food monitoring and POC applications
EXPERIENCE
President Aug. 2021 – Present
German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan
President Sept. 2020 – Aug. 2021
Middle East University, Amman, Jordan
Vice President for Scientific Faculties Sept. 2019 – Sept. 2020
Middle East University, Amman, Jordan
Professor Feb. 2017 – Present
Mechatronics Engineering Department
School of Applied Technical Sciences, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Guest Researcher and Privatdozent (PD) 2013 – Present
Institute of Microtechnology (IMT)
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Dean Mar. 2019 – Sept. 2019
School of Applied Humanities and languages, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Dean Mar. 2016 – Feb. 2018
School of Applied Technical Sciences, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Associate Professor Feb. 2013 – Feb. 2017
Mechatronics Engineering Department
School of Applied Technical Sciences, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Exchange Coordinator Nov. 2013 – Mar. 2016
Mechanical Engineering Department
School of Applied Technical Sciences, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Visiting Scholar Jul. – Sept. 2014
Research Laboratory of Electronics, Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Research Associate, Group leader and Lecturer Jun. 2007 – Feb. 2013
Institute of Microtechnology (IMT),
Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Research Assistant (DAAD Scholarship) Oct. 2005 – May 2007
Institute of Microtechnology (IMT),
Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
AWARDS
- German Jordanian University (GJU) Distinguished Researcher Award, Amman, Jordan, Nov. 2014
- The Best Poster Award in the MEMS Alliance Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 2009
- The Best Paper Award in the First Graduate Studies Research Conference, Amman, Jordan, 2008.
- The Cray Award for the best published paper in Microtechnology/Microsystem technology, Braunschweig, Germany, 2007.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Al-Halhouli, A.; Al-Ghussain, L.; El Bouri, S.; Habash, F.; Liu, H.; Zheng, D. ,"Clinical Evaluation of Stretchable and Wearable Inkjet-Printed Strain Gauge Sensor for Respiratory Rate Monitoring at Different Body Postures",Appl. Sci.,2020
Al-Halhouli, A.; Al-Ghussain, L.; El Bouri, S.; Liu, H.; Zheng, D,"Fabrication and Evaluation of a Novel Non-Invasive Stretchable and Wearable Respiratory Rate Sensor Based on Silver Nanoparticles Using Inkjet Printing Technology",Polymers ,Vol 11, 1518,2019
Al-Halhouli, A., Albagdady, A. and Dietzel, A., 2019. Sheath-less high throughput inertial separation of small microparticles in spiral microchannels with trapezoidal cross-section. RSC advances, 9(71), pp.41970-41976.
