**About the Editors**

### **Walid M. Daoush**

Dr. Daoush is a professor of materials science at the department of production technology of Helwan University. He moved from CMRDI in Cairo to Helwan University in 2010 as an associate professor of materials science. He started his work as a research assistant at CMRDI. Since he joined CMRDI in 1996, his work has focused on the fabrications and characterizations of materials. In 2004, he obtained a Ph.D. from University of Ain Shams in Cairo. Recently, his efforts have been applied to a wide range of materials and he is a coauthor of more than 60 published articles in different fields such as metal-supported CNTs, biomaterials, tungsten heavy alloys and metallic foams. He had Research Assistant Professorships at (KAIST) from 2007 to 2008, while serving as a Post-Doc at (NTUST) in 2011. In addition, he has been a visiting scientist in several international institutes, including Japan Fine Ceramic Center (JFCC) and Materials Research Institute of Slovak republic, and recently as a Fulbright visiting scholar in the college of engineering at San Diego State University. Dr. Walid is listed in the membership board of KRF, Who's Who in the world 2009, American Chemical society and Materials Research Society. He received the prize of young scientists of Materials Science from the Egyptian academy of Science and Technology in 2010. Dr. Daoush has cosupervised more than 15 theses and published over 50 articles, one patent, and chapters in text books. He collaborated with several national and international organizations for start-up projects in Egypt and different countries in Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Materials Research Institute of Slovak Republic, TRC of the Egyptian Armed Forces, STDF in Egypt, the University Carlos III de Madrid and recently to the college of engineering at San Diego State University. Since 2016, he has been working as an adjunct professor at the college of science of the Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia.

### **Fawad Inam**

Based at the University of East London (UK), Professor Dr Fawad Inam has contributed to achieving more than GBP 2.5 million in research and enterprise income from government and commercial platforms. Followed by over 228k individuals worldwide in publicly accessible general engineering outreach social media channels, he has advised over 55 universities and institutes from all the four nations of the UK. As a British Chartered Engineer (CEng), fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), and principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA, UK), he has formed/strengthened international partnerships, delivered engineering courses and influenced institutional higher education practice in other countries such as China, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the Netherlands, to list a few. He is the recipient of the 'Materials World Award' conferred by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3, UK) in 2008. Prof Inam's research and enterprise expertise is primarily focused around improving the performance and functionalities of engineering products using materials science and engineering, in particular nano-influenced smart materials.

### **Mostafa Baboli**

Dr. Mostafa Ghasemi Baboli is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering department of the Sohar University, Oman. Before joining Sohar University, he worked at Universtiti Teknologi PETRONAS (2016–2020) and The National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2013–2016. He also consults for water and wastewater treatment, green technology and renewable energy projects. He has published more than 80 manuscripts in high-level international journals (mostly Elsevier journals), with a total impact factor of more than 200.

### **Maha M. Khayyat**

Dr. Maha M. Khayyat is currently a research professor of physics at KACST. Dr Khayyat received her PhD from Cavendish laboratory, University of Cambridge (Oct. 2001–July 2004), studying the mechanical, optical and electrical properties of crystalline and amorphous semiconductor materials (Si, Ge, and GaAs) using indentation techniques at both the micro- and nanoscale. Then, she worked as a collaborative researcher at Cavendish lab, where she was introduced to the topic of photovoltaic cells at Microelecronics Research Center (MRC) and Nanoscience Center of University of Cambridge. She worked within a joint project KACST/ IBM, undertaking research at T. J. Watson Research Center, USA. She worked on solar cells based on Si nanowires and then started conducting original research by improving nanowire technology and spalling at liquid nitrogen temperature. After this, she spent her sabbatical year at MIT, Nanoengineering group, funded by the Center of Clean Water of Energy of KFUPM. She aimed to develop surface structures that trap photons in thin films of Si. Then, she worked at Poitiers University, Poitiers, France, studying the properties of GaN nanomembraned for LED applications.
