It is worth mentioning that 20 more students are pursuing their summer internship training at SAASST and will soon present their final work. SAASST, since 2018, has opened its research laboratories to students from all of the UAE Universities to come and do their internships. However, due to the ongoing heavy research at the academy, students are only allowed to come in the summer.
Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:14
Ms. Raiyah Al-Serkal from AUS, First Student to Finish Her Summer Internship 2021 at SAASST
Ms. Raiyah Al-Serkal, a physics student from the American University of Sharjah, just finished her 2021 summer internship at the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST). Ms. Raiyah started her internship on June 06 and gave her final presentation about her work on July 11. She worked at the High Energy Astrophysics Laboratory and was under the supervision of Dr. Antonios Manousakis, Ms. Noora Al-Ameri, and Ms. Maryam Al-Qasemi. Her main work was to do some computational and data analysis on X-ray binaries. Ms. Raiyah said she got tremendous experience working with real astronomical data obtained from the XMM X-ray space telescope.
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