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Ahela Elsayed Ali Elshrkawy

Ahela Elsayed Ali Elshrkawy

Business Developer at NoorNation

Ahela Elshrkawy is a USAID Scholar and a Materials & Nanoscience graduate, currently serving as a Business Development Specialist at NoorNation. She is deeply passionate about renewable energy research, advanced materials, and solar cell development. During her research exchange at Temple University, USA, she specialized in nanophotonics and thin-film physics, with expertise spanning PV device optimization, superconducting MgB₂ films, and SERS-active nanostructures.
An award-winning innovator, Ahela led the "Robot-based Oil-spill Sponge" project, securing 1st place at Temple University’s Innovative Idea Competition and ranking in the top 6 globally at WFCC 2025. Her professional work focuses on bridging fundamental research with field-ready solar-direct solutions to drive sustainable energy access across Africa. Recently selected for the Solar Innovators Research Fellowship (SIRF), she remains committed to leveraging material science for global energy transitions.

SIRF is delivered by the Renewable Energy Technology Training Institute (RETTI) with support from the WOCEWA (Women and Clean Energy in West Africa) small grant framework, a program of ECOWAS implemented by ECREEE.

This support strengthens SIRF’s mission to advance women-led clean energy enterprises and research-driven solar manufacturing capacity in West Africa.

SIRF forms part of a broader renewable energy capacity-building framework supported under the WOCEWA initiative. While SIRF delivers virtual research training across Africa, a separate Solar Panel Assembly Training program will provide hands-on solar assembly training to 20 Nigerian women in Lagos.

Selected practical insights from SIRF research may inform aspects of the demonstration assembly process. Both initiatives contribute to strengthening local solar manufacturing capacity.

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