**Meet the editor**

Dr. Zaki Ahmad obtained his PhD in metallurgy from the University of Leeds in 1971. He is a chartered metallurgical engineer; a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining; and a fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology. He is the editor of three books on aluminium alloys and author of books on corrosion engineering published by Elsevier. He was awarded the

best researcher award for the Middle East in 2010 by Energy Exchange. He is professor emeritus of King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA, and adjunct professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, Comsats Lahore. He has to his credit over 120 papers, and he is on the editorial board of InTech and two international journals. His main areas of interest are aluminium alloys, and he has been working on the development of these alloys for the last several years.
