Shimaa Eissa

Biography

Dr. Shimaa Eissa obtained her B. Sc. in Chemistry (2004), Diploma in biochemistry (2005) and M. Sc. in Analytical Chemistry (2010) from Faculty of Science, Damietta, Mansoura University. In 2015, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Science of Energy and materials from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Centre – Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (EMT), Varennes, Québec, Canada. Her research at INRS was focused on the development of electrochemical biosensors for foodborne contaminants exploiting aptamers as novel biorecognition receptors as well as graphene nanomatrials as transduction elements. In the last two years Dr. Shimaa was a visiting researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she gained more insight on the effect of graphene materials preparation methods on their structural properties and consequently their biosensing performance. Dr. Shimaa has published several peer-reviewed scholarly articles in high impact journals including Nanoscale, Nano Research, Analytical Chemistry, Biosensor and Bioelectronics, Journal of Environmental science and technology and The Analyst. She has presented her research accomplishments at several international meetings and conferences such as Electrochemical society meeting (USA), Pittcon (USA), and Canadian Chemical Society Conference (Canada). Dr. Shimaa current research interest is focused on the following themes:1) Development of novel biosensing platforms for environmental and diagnostic applications. 2) Selection, engineering and applications of aptamers against various targets including small molecules and proteins. 3) Studying the performance of carbon nanomaterials such as different graphene materials in electrochemical biosensors and their applications in novel biosensing platforms.

Research Interest

Design and characterization of electrochemical biosensors for various environmental and biomedical applications. Selection and characterization of aptamers as new recognition receptors against various tar- gets including small molecules and proteins and their biosensing applications. Studying the performance of carbon nanomaterials such as different graphene materials in electrochemical biosensors and their applications.