Amr Shaarawi is the holder of two BSc degrees, one in electrical engineering (1978) and one in physics (1980), both from Cairo University, Egypt. Shaarawi received his MSc (1984) and PhD (1989) degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As a graduate student he worked on the characterization of dielectric materials using time domain techniques, hybrid microelectronics and studying the slow decay of ultra-wideband localized pulses. In 1989, Shaarawi joined the Department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics, Cairo University, as an assistant professor. During this period, he taught undergraduate and graduate physics courses to engineering students. Shaarawi was a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, for which he spent the 1996-1997 academic year, as a Visiting Fulbright scholar at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In September 1999, Shaarawi joined the physics department at The American University in Cairo. In addition to his teaching duties, he was the coordinator of a core curriculum course on Scientific Thinking (2000-2008), and he served as the advisor of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter at AUC (2000-2006). He is affiliated with the Youssef Jameel Science and Technology Research Center at AUC. His research interests include theoretical studies of ultra-wideband localized pulses and ultra-fast transmission of tunneling pulses. In addition, he works on modeling of ultra-short slowly decaying pulses, their generation, propagation and scattering.

Theoretical Studies of Ultra-Wideband Localized Waves and Ultra-Fast Transmission of Tunneling Pulses,  Modeling of Ultra-Short Slowly Decaying Pulses (their generation, propagation and scattering), Photonic bandgap structures