Enthusiastic about biology since childhood, Hanin Ahmed recalls the day, as an eight-year-old student in an elementary school in Madinah, when she performed her first experiment and observed it under an optical microscope. The hidden world she encountered left her in awe, and that sense of wonder has stuck with her ever since. 

Fueled by the flame of her childhood dream, Hanin’s thirst for knowledge has grown throughout her educational journey. After graduating from Taibah University in Madinah, Hanin joined KAUST as a Ph.D. student in the Plant Science program under Professor Simon Krattinger’s mentorship. She vividly remembers discovering KAUST at a postgraduate open-day event at Taibah University, toward the end of her undergraduate studies. 

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