Marwa M.H. El-Sayed

Title
Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Civil Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Air quality
  • Atmospheric pollution
  • Aerosol formation
  • Field measurements
  • Data analysis
  • Sustainability
Marwa M.H. El-Sayed

Dr. El-Sayed is an assistant professor of environmental engineering in the Civil Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and the director of the Sustainability and Environmental Engineering Laboratory (SEEL) and its outdoor sampling facility, the Atmospheric Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) facility. El-Sayed’s research interests lie in characterizing the processes and sources of atmospheric pollutants to better understand how human perturbs these processes to ultimately quantify their impact on climate change, policy making, and human health. She has over a dozen publications and presented her work in several national and international conferences.

El-Sayed received her PhD at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering working on air pollution projects which focus on characterizing atmospheric aerosols particularly in the eastern United States. She holds a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in Engineering for Sustainable Development. She received an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering with honors from Cairo University in Egypt.

Dr. El-Sayed joined Colorado State University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Atmospheric Science Department where she conducted several field studies to investigate the air quality in the western United States. Prior to her doctorate degree, El-Sayed has worked as a research fellow at the National Research Center of Cairo where she applied the concepts of cleaner production in the Egyptian industry. In addition, she worked as an environmental consultant for several projects in the Middle East and Europe.

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Sustainable Engineering, University of Cambridge
  • CIV 538: Air Pollution Control
  • CIV 222: Intro to Environmental Engr
  • CIV 495: Introduction to Sustainability
  • CIV 700: Thesis
  • CIV 222: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  • CIV 417: Air Pollution
  • CIV 495: Introduction to Sustainability
  • CIV 508: Environmental Engineering
  1. El-Sayed, M.M.H., Parida, S.S., Shekhar, P., Sullivan, A., & Hennigan, C.J. (2023). Predicting Atmospheric Water-Soluble Organic Mass Reversibly Partitioned to Aerosol Liquid Water in the Eastern United States. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(46), 18151-18161.
  2. Wang, L., Pang, S., Noyela, M., Adkins, K., Sun, L., & El-Sayed, M.M.H. (2023). Vision and Olfactory-Based Wildfire Monitoring with Uncrewed Aircraft Systems. In 2023 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR) (pp. 716-723). IEEE.
  3. O’Leary, H., Smiles, D., Parr, S., & El-Sayed, M. M. (2023). "I Can’t Breathe:" The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis. Society & Natural Resources, 1-21.
  4. El-Sayed, M.M.H., & Hennigan, C.J. (2022). Aqueous Processing of Water-Soluble Organic Compounds in the Eastern United States During Winter. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts.
  5. O'Leary, H., Parr, S., & El-Sayed, M.M.H. (2022). The Breathing Human Infrastructure: Integrating Air Quality, Traffic, and Social Media Indicators. Science of The Total Environment, 154209.
  6. El-Sayed, M.M.H., Elshorbany, Y.F., & Koehler, K. (2021). On the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Air Quality in Florida. Environmental Pollution, 117451.
  7. Benedict, K.B., Prenni, A.J., El-Sayed, M.M.H., Hecobian, A., Zhou, Y., Gebhart, K.A., Sive, B.C., Schichtel, B.A., & Collett, J.L. (2020). Volatile Organic Compounds and Ozone at Four National Parks in the Southwestern United States. Atmospheric Environment, 239, 117783.
  8. El-Sayed, M.M.H., Benedict, K.B., Prenni, A.J., Schichtel, B.A., & Collett, J.L. (2019). Atmospheric Microplastics (MPs) in Populated and Remote Regions of Colorado. American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.
  9. Christopher Hennigan and Marwa El-Sayed, Atmospheric water-soluble organic carbon in Baltimore, MD. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity. 2018, doi:10.5063/F1DN437M.
  10. El-Sayed, M.M.H., Ortiz-Montalvo, D.L., and Hennigan, C.J., “The effects of isoprene and NOx on secondary organic aerosols formed through reversible and irreversible uptake to aerosol water,” Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1171-1184, 2018, doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1171-2018.
  11. Hennigan C.J, Hodzic A., El-Sayed M.M.H., “Detailed characterization of a mist chamber for the collection of water-soluble organic gases,” Atmos. Environ., 188, 12-17., 2018.
  12. El-Sayed M.M.H., Amenumey D., Hennigan C.J, “Drying-induced evaporation of secondary organic aerosol during summer,” Environ. Sci. Technol., 50 (7), 3626–3633, 2016, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06002.
  13. El-Sayed M.M.H.; Wang, Y.; Hennigan, C. J., “Direct atmospheric evidence for the irreversible formation of aqueous secondary organic aerosol,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 2015, 42, 5577–5586; 2015, doi: 10.1002/2015GL064556.
  14. El-Sayed M.M.Hosni, N.A.Ibrahim, N.M.Abdel Moneim, E. El-Sayed, “Pollution Prevention of cotton-cone reactive dyeing”, J. Clean. Prod., 16 (2008) 1321-1326, 2008.
  • Postdoctoral fellow: Colorado State University, Colorado, USA (2018-2019)
  • Research assistant: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA (2013-2018)
  • Environmental consultant: EcoConServ Consulting, Cairo, Egypt (2009-2011)
  • Research assistant: The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt (2006-2008)
  • Research assistant: National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt (2003-2011)
  • American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR), Member of Board of Directors
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Director of Environmental Division
  • Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN), Member of associate Board of Directors
  • Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), Member of DEIA committee
  • Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
  • American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Environmental Division Early Career Award, 2024
  • NSF Travel Grant to attend the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC, December 2024
  • Department of Energy’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL): Characterization of nano- and microplastics from biomass burning, 2024
  • ERAU College of Engineering Research Stimulus Program Grants for Summers 2022 and 2023
  • CTLE Small Teaching Challenge, Individual Award, 2023
  • Center of Teaching and Learning (CTLE) Grant, ERAU 2021-2022
  • Faculty Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST) Grant, ERAU, 2020-2021
  • Best Student Poster Award, AAAR 36th Annual Meeting, 2017
  • AGU Fall Meeting Travel Grant, 2017
  • AAAR 35th Annual Meeting Travel Grant, 2016
  • Shell Centenary Scholarship, University of Cambridge, 2008