An alumna of the Department of Chemistry (2018-2022), QAU. Ms. Sajal Arwish (recipient of two Gold Vice Chancellor medals from QAU) has been selected for the DFG-NSF joint research project in the area of polymer electrolytes for applications in Li-ion batteries. As a full-time PhD student, she has joined a physical chemistry research institute (WWU) in Germany. She will collaboratively work as part of her PhD project at Tufts University in the USA to learn the innovative techniques in that lab. She is pursuing a fully funded PhD in Chemistry with research focuses on polymer electrolytes for energy storage applications.