Alya Al-Hashim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Building Technology and & Performance program. Her research interest is urban fabric and morphology and aims to quantify different performances urban spaces and translate these performance measure to comparative tool for designers and decision makers as basis for improving urban space livability. She has earned her Bachelor’s degree from Sultan Qaboos University in 2010 in Architectural Engineering and received her Master’s degree from University of Arizona, USA in the year 2013.
Alya has worked in multiple research projects as a research assistant, such as “Documentation of the Traditional Omani Settlements’ Project” “, Research project funded by Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Oman (2014) , "Cultural DNA in Islamic geometric pattern design & its effect on the commonality in traditional architecture with particular focus on Oman" (2011), and "Investigating the daylight adequacy for functional needs in old Omani forts“ (2010), these research projects were fully funded by Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.​