The Gallery

Showcasing some of our favorite moments!

Visual representation for tip: Dinner from the M&C-2025 conference in Denver with AIMS members celebrating Majdi’s Young Researcher Achievement Award. Leo is the main suspect for messing up group photos—thanks to his real-time blinking. Meanwhile, Nataly is doing her best to prove Majdi wrong about her being the second person to blame for ruining pictures.

Visual representation for tip: Leo exploring other career avenues if his PhD did not work out. His fanbase currently has two.

Visual representation for tip: Our reaction when Majdi says the group meeting is cancelled.

Visual representation for tip: Majdi’s with full confidence while bragging about how much student loves him in the classroom because of his engaging style: "I’ve gotten animals to pose for photos with me, you really think engaging students is gonna be a challenge?"

Visual representation for tip: Leo and Nabila’s reactions when Majdi starts complaining about his administrative loads, us not meeting deadlines, being behind on research, and so on. Meanwhile Kamal listens carefully as he plans to become a faculty!

Visual representation for tip: Meredith after she promised Majdi she will stop travelling to all events and workshops and settle down to get her PhD done. Picture from COP28 in UAE.

Visual representation for tip: Nabila (a.k.a Meredith – 2.0) does not let any workshop or nuclear event miss her no matter where it is. Photo from the Fukushima-Daiichi site in Japan!

Visual representation for tip: AIMS students and alumni snapped a photo in Idaho Falls during a conference. Meanwhile, Majdi stood there, baffled, wondering: "Have I ever seen them this happy before? Is it me... or is Idaho Falls way more fun than Ann Arbor?" Tough call. What do you think?

Visual representation for tip: Nataly’s lifecycle in AIMS: She overcommits to numerous tasks, ends up in trouble, feels overwhelmed, then blames Majdi for that, and finally smiles when the mission is accomplished.

Visual representation for tip: Andre reaction when Majdi misspells his name for the thousand time by adding “i” to the end of his name while texting on Slack. Sorry Andrei, I will NOT do this again.

Visual representation for tip: Logan, keeping a straight face like a true professional, as Majdi cheerfully announces he's about to whip up some "easy" CAD drawings — meanwhile, Logan’s never touched CAD in his life and is internally screaming.

Visual representation for tip: Majdi’s face after winning an argument with us …

Visual representation for tip: When he loses the argument …

Visual representation for tip: Claire (Cal) typical explanation on missing group meetings and not responding to Slack.

Visual representation for tip: Our expectation and dreams of the food to be served in the group meetings while Majdi insists that he does not serve that because he cares about our health and fitness in the first place.

Visual representation for tip: Part of our core values is “Support”. Here we support Jacob and push him out of Michigan as he graduates and joins Westinghouse

Visual representation for tip: Jazmin with the pic of the year during her visit to the Fermi-2 power plant in Michigan.

Visual representation for tip: Lada is being super loyal to the photographer. Till today, we have no idea what we were all looking at here and why Lada was completely disinterested.

Visual representation for tip: Majdi after giving us a long lecture about hardwork and dedication. Photo Credit: The brave Leo Tunkle

Visual representation for tip: Majdi when asked whether he dares making a joke about all people in this picture: “I do not want to ruin my life” We have the most bright and talented women in the field (and this is not a joke).

Visual representation for tip: You are a true AIMS if you can find one AIMS member in this picture and a loyal NERS and Wolverine if you can find two more people from NERS!

Visual representation for tip: Majdi at the early career panel at the ANS 2024 Winter conference in Orlando, FL. This picture is also his way to remind us that he was a superstar scientist in the past before being buried in management.

Visual representation for tip: Majdi’s first award in Michigan was a water bottle and a backpack after winning best faculty pitch award. When asked about the award: “It is true I was thirsty after the pitch, but I did not expect the prize to be a water bottle”.

Visual representation for tip: The hardest part to get this picture done was to find two people in AIMS who have close heights!

Visual representation for tip: We know Omer is a multi-talent guy in AIMS but his greatest talent is getting Majdi lost during one-to-one meetings by diving into a million complex directions to describe his research. Majdi says he needs a meditation retreat afterward.

Visual representation for tip: Mohammed, who is conducting research on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), is applying his research in practice here, with his brain powering this balloon with SAF.

Visual representation for tip: Patrick complains he does not get much time to chat with Majdi. Meanwhile Patrick when Majdi tries to schedule a meeting …

Visual representation for tip: Our reaction when Majdi says the paper still needs a lot of work just to be “good”.

Visual representation for tip: Majdi taking pictures with crocodiles = Our *worst* nightmare of a new project. Please, no hands-on experience needed.

Visual representation for tip: We tell Majdi we’re working *super* hard during our internships, and people are basically blown away by our brilliance. A spy then sends him this.

Visual representation for tip: And we remain friends and professionals! Thank you from the AIMS family!

Dinner from the M&C-2025 conference in Denver with AIMS members celebrating Majdi’s Young Researcher Achievement Award. Leo is the main suspect for messing up group photos—thanks to his real-time blinking. Meanwhile, Nataly is doing her best to prove Majdi wrong about her being the second person to blame for ruining pictures.

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