Zoubeida Ounaies is a Tunisian mechanical engineer, whose research involves nanocomposites, smart materials, and piezoelectricity in polymers.
She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University, affiliated with the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering[1] and with the Institute of Energy and the Environment.
[5][3] She went to Pennsylvania State University for her undergraduate and graduate education,[5] funded by the Tunisia Technology Transfer Program of the United States Agency for International Development,[6] and completed her Ph.D. in 1996.
[5] She moved to Texas A&M University in 2005, but returned to Penn State again in 2011.
[4][8] She is also a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.