Amal Amin is a professor of nanotechnology/polymers at the National Research Center in Egypt.
She was a TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) Young Affiliate, co-founder and executive committee member of the Global and Egyptian Young Academies, as well as president, co-founder and coordinator of the Egyptian Society and Arab Network for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She is founding chair of Women in Science Without Borders (WISWB) and the World Forum for Women in Science. In 2020 she co-founded the Northern African Research and Innovation Management Association (NARIMA) and in 2021 the science diplomacy for the future initiative. Her achievements were featured in many journals, including Scientific African (2019), Nature (2020) and the NASAC book on Women and sustainable development in Africa (2020).