Meet the editors

Dr. Nasser Awwad obtained a Ph.D. in Inorganic and Radiochemistry from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2000, and a postdoctoral degree at Sandia National Labs, USA, in 2004. He has been a professor at King Khalid University (KKU), Saudi Arabia, since 2011. He is the editor of five books and co-editor of two. He has published 251 papers in journals. He has supervised four Ph.D. and eighteen MSc students and participated in

thirty-two international conferences. He participated in twelve projects with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia, and Sandia National Labs, USA. He is a member of the Arab Society of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine and the American Chemical Society. He is the rapporteur of the Permanent Committee for Nuclear and Radiological Protection at KKU. He is also a member of the Committee for the Development of International Cooperation Management and the Permanent Committee for the Development of Scientific Research Strategies and Policies at KKU. Dr. Awwad is the head of the Scientific Research and International Cooperation Unit, Faculty of Science, KKU.

Dr. Saleh S. Alarfaji obtained a BSc in Chemistry from King Khalid University (KKU), Saudi Arabia, in 2006, and an MS from Murray State University, USA, in 2012. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2018. In 2019, he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Computational Physical Chemistry at KKU. In 2020, he became the head of the Department of Chemistry at the same university. Dr. Alarfaji

helped to achieve NCAAA accreditation for the BSc and MS in Chemistry at KKU. He specializes in computational chemistry fields such as drug design and discovery, material science, physical chemistry challenges, biomaterials, and optoelectronics. He has authored and co-authored thirty-three research articles in highly reputed journals.

Dr. Ahmed Alomary is the general manager of Aseer Education, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his MSc and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. His research interests include the development and application of novel high-throughput analytical techniques (UPLC, UPLC/MS, LC, LC/MS, GC, GC/MS, spectrophotometer, etc.) for water, medicine, and foodstuffs

analysis; developing, establishing, and validating new extraction analytical methodology; and characterising and preparing laboratory reference material for the validation of analytical methodology.
