Ahmed Al Harraq worked in the lab as a CPBF postdoctoral fellow in the lab co-advised with Josh Shaevitz. After the lab moved to the west coast, he stayed at Princeton, continuing as a postdoc in the Shaevitz lab. As an undergraduate, he studied chemical engineering at the University of Strathclyde, and then earned his PhD at Louisiana State University for experimental research on non-equilibrium colloidal phenomena. At Princeton, Ahmed has ventured into studies of living matter in complex environments.

Ahmed was born in Iraq, grew up in Italy, and studied in Scotland, before moving to the USA. In his free time, he equally enjoys hiking in nature and walking in cities with his wife, Sydney, and their dog, Gibbs. He is an avid fan of everything Tolkien and claims that his papers should be read while listening to the soundtrack of the Lord of the Rings trilogy because that’s what he was listening to while writing them.