Ghanim Al-Jumaily

Professor Ghanim Al-Jumaily is an accomplished engineering professor currently affiliated with the College of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics at Southern New Hampshire University. He possesses a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, an M.S. in Optics from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Baghdad. His research interests lie in optics and electrical engineering, with notable contributions to thin film technology and magnetic materials.

Al-Jumaily's career encompasses diverse roles in academia, industry, space exploration, humanitarian work, and diplomacy. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he contributed to the Mars Pathfinder mission, pivotal in deploying the first rover on Mars. During his tenure at Seagate Technology, he published key papers including "Microstructural origin of soft magnetic properties of sendust films prepared by N₂ reactive sputtering" in the Journal of Applied Physics (1998), and "A study on pinned layer magnetization processes in different synthetic antiferromagnet spin valves" (2000). He co-edited the book Optical Metrology in 1999 and holds two patents in the field of optics.

Furthermore, Al-Jumaily served as CEO of Life for Relief and Development, supporting Iraqi families after the Gulf War. In diplomacy, he was Iraq's Ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2009, where he helped establish a strategic partnership between Iraq and Japan covering education, energy, electricity, privatization, and health sectors. He later served as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia starting in 2009. He has given public lectures such as a TEDxNajd presentation on the Mars Pathfinder and talks on the Cassini mission. His multifaceted career highlights his influence across engineering, science, and international relations.