Leading Ladies
Saudi Arabia’s Asma Al Amoodi, PhD Candidate & L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellow
Across the globe, women continue to break into male-dominated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, and in Saudi Arabia, this is a phenomenon that has been growing. Today, the Kingdom is known for having exceptionally talented female scientists and professionals in science, one of them being Asma Al Amoodi, a PhD student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the 2019 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Middle East Fellowship.
Indeed, Al-Amoodi’s career in science has been an impressive one to date, starting with her educational background. She graduated from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah with a bachelor's degree in medical laboratory technology and then enrolled in 2015 for a master’s degree in Bioscience at KAUST. As a PhD candidate, she started working in 2017 as a medical laboratory technologist and, today, is a skilled researcher in cell biology and biochemistry with emphasis on hematopoietic stem cells migration.