Demos Pafitis
Senior Vice President
Umair Bin Waheed is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at King Fahd
University of Petroleum and Minerals. He was a postdoc at the Department
of Geosciences, Princeton University, and during this time he also
worked as a Writing in Science and Engineering Fellow at the Princeton
Writing Program. As part of this fellowship program, he attended a
course on scientific writing taught by Dr. Judith Swan and participated
in several training workshops on teaching scientific writing.
Later he
taught courses on scientific writing to graduate students at Princeton
University from across science and engineering disciplines. Encouraged
by the positive feedback, he has continued to teach the material at
other institutions. He has delivered courses to graduate students and
postdocs at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, in addition to his
current institution, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.