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Dr. Alya A. Arabi is Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine and Health Sciences at UAEU (2020-). In 2012, Dr. Arabi received her PhD in Chemistry from Dalhousie University, Canada. In 2008, she was awarded a Bachelor of Sciences Honors degree with highest aggregate from Mount Saint Vincent University joint with Dalhousie University, Canada. Dr. Arabi received numerous prestigious awards including the Killam Predoctoral Scholarship, and NSERC Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral. Dr. Arabi accepted Adjunct Faculty positions at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada; and Abu Dhabi University, UAE (2012/2013). She then joined the College of Natural and Health Sciences at Zayed University, UAE, as an Assistant Professor (2014-2018), and as an Associate Professor (2018-2020). Her research interests lie in the investigation of biochemical systems using computational tools. She studies 1) the effect of external factors such as electric fields and intercalators on mutations in DNA; and 2) drug design.