Meet Mustafa Kaddoura, an AGF scholar from Palestine who pursued a MS in Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Beirut​.

“Getting the AGF scholarship was a life-changing event. It offered me the opportunity to attend one of the best universities in the country and helped ease the financial pressures of the university to focus on my studies and research.”​

Mustafa graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2018 and completed his PhD at University of Minnesota, USA in 2022. Currently, Mustafa is employed as a Senior Application Engineer at ANSYS in the United States.​

Also, Mustafa won the Innovation Contest in the NREL Solar-Desalination Prize, and his team has been collaborating with the industry to push their research innovation towards the commercialization.​

“I always look forward to a make a difference in the Arab World and implement my research to address the water and energy challenges. ”​