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Mohamed Eltarkawe is a third-year PhD student in Prof. Shelly Miller’s research group. His research interests are directed towards understanding the relationship between well-being and industrial odors in five communities in Colorado: Fort Collins, Greeley, Fort Lupton, North Denver, and Pueblo. He developed an android app (Report Odor 1) through which he is collecting data.

Mohamed was born in Karsa, a tiny town in the northeastern part of Libya. He got his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Omar Al-Mukhtar �Թ���. In 2008, Mohamed was awarded a full scholarship from the Higher Ministry of Education in Libya to pursue a graduate degree in the US. He graduated from the �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder in 2011. He went back to Libya and taught for two years at the �Թ��� of Omar Al-Mukhtar. His wife is a teacher as well and they have a 3-year old son and 3-month old baby girl.

Beyond school, Mohamed enjoys family time, camping, soccer, gardening, cooking and above all volunteering. In Karsa, he was part of a group nicknamed “Ragoba” that cleans the water channel in his town. In Boulder, Mohamed enjoys preparing breakfast every other Saturday at the Boulder Homeless Shelter.