Sahika Inal

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Sahika Inal is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, with affiliated appointments in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Since 2016, she has led the Organic Bioelectronics Lab, where her group develops organic mixed ionic–electronic materials and bioelectronic devices for biosensing, biosignal recording, stimulation, and neuromorphic applications. Trained as a polymer scientist and engineer, Inal earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from the University of Potsdam, Germany, and completed postdoctoral research in microelectronics for bioelectronic applications in France. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has received several international honors, including the 2026 Humboldt Professorship, the ACS Kavli Lectureship Award, the Beilby Medal and Prize, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. She has authored more than 150 publications, which have received approximately 20,000 citations.