Omran Sharaf

Omran Sharaf (Arabic: عمران شرف; born 1984) is an Emirati engineer and the project manager of the first Emirates Mars Mission.

[2] In 2006, he was recruited as the first employee to join the newly established Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST).

He lived in South Korea for seven years, working on the Command and Data Handling Subsystem of DubaiSat-1.

On EIAST's second EO mission, DubaiSat-2, Omran worked on the Systems Engineering in addition to the Command & Data Handling Subsystem.

He was assigned as Director of Space Images Processing & Analysis Department from the 2011–2014.