A Saudi scientist and researcher specialized in chemical engineering.

She has been a managing partner at Elox International since February 2024, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, in the United States, since January 2017, and head of the Center for Research and Excellence in Nanomedicine and Engineering at the same university.

She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Future Investment Initiative Foundation since April 2020, and a member of the Board of Directors of Microscan Technology Company since April 2021.

She was an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, from 2012 to 2017, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2008 to 2012, and a member of the board of directors of Lifera, Inc., from January 2021 to July 2024.

Al-Mutairi discovered a mineral that enables light rays to enter the human body in flakes called "photons," facilitating their entry into cells without the need for surgery. She has also contributed to numerous research studies, and five of her books on "microtechnology" have been translated into German and Japanese.

She won the HEN Scientific Innovation Award in 2013, an award given to the best research project among ten thousand researchers. In 2012, Al-Mutairi's discovery was presented to the US Congress as one of the four most important medical inventions. In 2009, she received the National Institute of Health Director's New Innovation Award for her work on chemically amplified response strategies for medical science.

She holds a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, with a focus on electron delocalization and molecular structure, a Master's degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Occidental University, Los Angeles.