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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Aref Husseini is an electrical engineer and physicist, worked in many industrial and Educational fields as developer and researcher during the last 12 years. Aref has founded Al-Nayzak organization for scientific innovation www.alnayzak.org in Palestine in 2003 by his initiative, Aref has built a successful organization that is recognized by the NGO community in Palestine and has entered into partnerships to serve over 20,000 children and youth. Ultimately, Alnayzak education programs will contribute to economic growth in Palestine through building new industry and investment opportunity.
Al-Nayzak sponsors a scientific incubation program for young male and female inventors who possess an original idea, and pairs them with experts in their field to scale up their project into a prototype that can be patented for mass production. The Al-Nayzak center is based in East Jerusalem, with activity centers located in Nablus, Ramallah, and Gaza to serve Palestinian youth throughout the territories.
In 2008 he has been chosen by Synrgous foundation in the United states as one of 22 Arab social innovators, in 2010 he registered his third patent for a marketable use product and established an industrial and trade privet company called Pal-Invent Co.
In 2011 he was elected as IEEE Palestine Subsection vice chairman.
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