Robotics engineer · Munich
I am a robotics engineer in Germany. The war did not stop me finishing a master’s degree in Syria, or teaching the whole way through it. From there a scholarship carried me to Hungary and a doctorate in robotics. This page is the path that followed, and the ones that branched off it.
Munich, 2025
From 2013 I taught for six years at Damascus University. For the last two I was also at the High Institute for Laser Research and its Applications (HILRA) and at Syrian Private University (SPU). At SPU I launched and ran the robotics club. It filled with students who were there for one reason only. They wanted to build something that mattered.
Two of the people from those years are further down this page.
Those were the first paths I helped open. Other people walked them.
In 2019 I left my family, my friends and my country to follow a dream. It was far from easy. It was full of purpose.
I did not get here on my own. Somebody decided I was worth the chance.
A Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship took me to the University of Debrecen. I taught there, and supervised master’s students through their theses.
When I chose my research topic I wanted something I truly believed in, something that connected technology to a deeper human impact. It became a robotic system for positioning patients during brain cancer radiosurgery.
The work ran between Europe and the United States, with Spinotron Kft in Hungary, and Medical Beam Laboratories and Clemson University in the USA.
Working on my doctorate with them was another opportunity I was given, and it came exactly when I was looking for real impact.
Because behind every algorithm, there is a person. A parent, a child, a friend.
My work was never just about machines. It was about giving people a safer, more hopeful chance to live fully, safely, and without fear.
I defended in February 2025.
The year I defended was harder than the doctorate. I moved between countries, looking for somewhere to begin again.
Berlin is where I landed. It is the most open city I have lived in, and in a few months there I was helped by people who had no reason to help me.
Then my name appeared on the 2025 list of 1000 Syrian Talents. It reached me in the middle of all that.
Read the way I needed to read it, it said the effort had been seen, and that I was on the right track.
That time should have been the hardest of my life. It was one of the best.
Since October 2025 I have been at idealworks in Munich, a BMW Group spin-off now part of Agile Robots, building autonomous mobile robots for factories and warehouses.
This is a different path from the one I spent years on, so most days I am learning.
I am not the expert here. I came to learn from the people who are.
On the day I decided to leave, I made myself a promise. If I ever got my own chance, and life settled, I would help other people find theirs.
That was years ago. This is where I keep it.
The foundation helps students reach university when one chance is all they need. The kind of help that looks small and changes everything.
I ask one thing. That one day, when you can, you do the same for someone else.
It never comes back. It carries on. One chance becomes two, and two become four.
A place at a university abroad, and the help that decides whether someone actually gets there. I needed all of it, and I remember what made the difference.
Leaving is not the only way forward. Help arranged directly with the student and their university, never through anyone in between.
We are not taking money until the association is registered and recognised as charitable. Until then we cannot issue tax receipts. What is useful now is people.
Status — Legal form: e. V. · Founding members: 1 of 7 · Satzung: next · Gemeinnützigkeit: pending
Somebody drew a line for me once. Since then I have had the honour of teaching, training and supervising people whose paths crossed mine for a while, and then continued on their own.
One from each place I taught, in their own words. What they did next was their own, and more will follow.
Syrian Private University
Founder at Aremora
I met Alaa at SPU, in the robotics club. She believed in what we were building, and that changed how I saw my own work. Years after she left the country, I asked her to supervise my thesis and she did. Today she advises the company I started. Somewhere along the way she became a friend.
Draft, awaiting his words
Damascus University
Network Engineer
I left the country before I could finish my degree. Alaa never accepted that, and she kept pushing until I came back and finished it. Now I am where we once worked, not as a student but as an engineer. The journey keeps going. I am a master’s student, and Alaa will supervise me from another country.
Draft, awaiting his words
University of Debrecen
Engineer at Volkswagen
We came to Hungary on the same scholarship, and Alaa supervised my thesis. There were weeks when I did not believe I could finish, and she stayed close through all of them. She was never only my supervisor. She walked the whole way with me, and she still does.
Draft, awaiting her words
Were you one of my students? Write to me and I will add you.