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About Me
Khalid Marbou, 21 years old, is currently an undergraduate engineering student majoring in Nanotechnology.
Khalid is also a successful blogger and a published writer in numerous national websites and newspapers (in Morocco). He has recently finished writing a sci-fi novel that is currently under review.
Khalid is very passionate about volunteer work, organizing TEDx events and working with NGOs on projects that are mainly related to the improvement of science and technology communication and popularization in his community. He has launched the first initiative for science communication in Morocco (The Moroccan Scientific Community), and is currently leading a team of volunteers working to achieve the goals of this initiative using various mediums (a facebook page, a website and a scientific magazine).
- Location:
- Morocco, Tiznit
- Current role:
- Student - BEng(Hons) Nanotechnology
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- inventions and innovations, Web development, voluntary work, Nanotechnology, Litterature, Science & Philosophy, Education & Development, Wriiting - Blogs, articles, Travel and Language Learning, Science Communication
- I am:
- Activist, Blogger, Brainstormer, Inventor, Muslim, Scientist, Student, Technologist, World traveler, Writer/Editor
- Associations:
- Golden Key International Honour Society
- Languages:
- English, French, Arabic, Malay, Chinese
- My website links:
- Personal website, LinkedIn profile, Facebook Profile
- Universities:
- Multimedia University, Malaysia, St Andrews University, Scotland
- TED conferences attended:
- TEDGlobal 2013, TEDGlobal 2012
More About Me
I'm passionate about
Doing things differently, doing things creatively..
Talk to me about
Anything about inspiring and fascinating ideas, communicating science and technology, research in Nanotechnology, writing and literature, movies and even politics.
My TED Story
I discovered about TED by the end of 2009, watched most of the talks and was fascinated and inspired by every one of them, and eventually started translating videos by October 2010, and carried on until today.
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We all live with deadlines, knowing it makes a huge difference..
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Nothing can replace the mother's push..
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A comment on Talk: Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
But what's happening now is far more fascinating, as we kind of recreated that ancient era in a nano-scale and replaced animals with viruses and bacterias.