Dr. Elham Fadaly is currently a Laser research scientist at Apple Inc., in Cupertino in the United States (US). Prior to that, she worked shortly as a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. She has obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Physics with honors (Cum Laude) from the same university in April 2021. Her doctoral research was focused on the epitaxy of hexagonal silicon-germanium alloys for the realization of direct bandgap emission for optoelectronic applications. She was won the the Best PhD Award in the Applied Physics Department and Across the whole TU/e University.

Prior to the Ph.D., Fadaly worked as a research scientist in the quantum institute of technology (QuTech) at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in collaboration with Microsoft in the period of 2015-2017. She holds a joint M.Sc. with high honors (Magna Cum Laude) in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology with a specialization in nanoelectronics, class 2015, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She obtained a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering with the highest honors (Suma Cum Laude) from the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2013. She also studied a semester abroad as a visiting undergraduate student in the Drexel University in Pennsylvania, in the US in 2011.

Fadaly’s research work is recognized internationally and has received numerous international awards, among which, the ‘Breakthrough of the year 2021 in Physical Sciences’ by the ‘Falling Walls Foundation’ in Berlin, Germany, the ‘Breakthrough of the year 2020 in Physics’ from the IOP- world magazine affiliated with the Institute of Physics in UK and Ireland, and the 'Best Tech Idea in 2020' from the Dutch Kijk magazine. She has also been awarded the runner-up ‘2020 young researcher award’ from the IOP-Nanotechnology journal. In addition, Fadaly has been recently named among MIT 35 under 35 innovators in Europe in 2022. She was also listed among 21 influential women in 2021 in Egypt by the ‘E7ky’ Initiative in collaboration with the Netherlands Embassy in Egypt.