Dr. Abdalla obtained his first degree in Mechanical Engineering at Khartoum University, Sudan where he graduates at the top of his batch with 2.1 BSc degree. Sponsored by the German Academic exchange serve, Dr. Abdalla completed his MSc degree in the field of Thermo-fluids at Nairobi University, Kenya, where he graduated with distinction. After a couple of years working both in academia and as a mechanical engineer in the industrial sector in Dubai, Dr. Abdalla was offered a scholarship to do his PhD studies at the Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Department at Loughborough University, where he obtained his Ph.D in 2003. His field of studies in the PhD is turbulence modelling using the large-eddy simulation (LES) method. Immediately after graduation, he joined a research centre at Queens University Belfast as a research visitor before taking the post of a research fellow at the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development at De Montfort University in 2004. In 2007 he joined the Department of Engineering as a senior lecturer.

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