Omran Sharaf

Omran Anwar Sharaf

Sharaf at Hope Scientific Mission Announcement Event
Native name عمران شرف
Born Dubai, UAE
Nationality United Arab Emirates
Education Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Masters in Science & Technology Policy
Employer Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

Omran Sharaf is the Project Manager of the United Arab Emirates' first Mission to Mars (Hope) and the Director of the Programs Management Department at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre.[1] Omran graduated in 2005 from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He was recruited as the first employee to join the newly established Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) in 2006. He lived in South Korea for 7 years, working on the Command and Data Handling Subsystem of DubaiSat-1. On EIAST's second EO mission, DubaiSat-2 Omran worked on the Systems Engineering in addition to the Command & Data Handling Subsystem. He was assigned as Director of Space Images Processing & Analysis Department from the 2011-2014.[2]

Omran earned his master's degree in 2013 from KAIST. His dissertation was title "A Satellite for Knowledge Economy: Knowledge Transfer in the UAE Space Program"[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Speaker Biography" (PDF). World Space Risk Forum. World Space Risk Forum. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Meet the UAE Mars Mission Team". Meet the UAE Mars Mission Team. Gulf News. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dissertation of Omran Sharaf". KAIST Library. KAIST. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
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