His Excellency Prof. Ebrahim Al Hajri is the President of Khalifa University of Science and Technology. He brings more than a decade of extensive experience in management, engineering, and higher education, with an impressive track record which includes transformative work at The Petroleum Institute, which later merged with Khalifa University, and the Emirates College for Advanced Education.

Earlier, he was Senior Vice-President of Support Services and an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, leading Khalifa University’s operational plans, budget, and administrative and financial strategy.

Dr. Bayan Sharif was appointed as the Dean of the College of Engineering at Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) in 2012 and subsequently in 2017 as Dean of the College of Engineering at Khalifa University. In 2018, he was also appointed as Acting Provost and as Provost in 2021. Dr. Sharif has an extensive background in the field of engineering with over 30 years of experience in an academic setting. He received his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Queen’s University of Belfast and Ulster University, N. Ireland, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He then held a research fellowship at Queen’s University of Belfast before he was appointed as faculty at Newcastle University, UK in 1990, and was promoted to Full Professor in Digital Communications in 2000. Dr. Sharif received the prestigious award of Doctor of Science (DSc) in Engineering from Newcastle University in 2013 for his research thesis on Signal Processing and Optimization Algorithms for Acoustic and Radio Communications.

Prof. Ahmed Al-Durra received his BSc, MSc, and PhD in ECE from Ohio State University in 2005, 2007, and 2010, respectively (with summa cum laude in all three degrees). He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI), UAE, as an assistant professor in 2010; he was promoted to associate professor in 2015. Since 2020, he is a Professor at the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, Khalifa University, UAE. His research interests are applications of control and estimation theory on power systems stability, micro and smart grids, renewable energy systems and integration, and process control. He is now the Associate Provost for Research in Khalifa University.

Professor Samuel Mao is the Senior Director of Masdar Institute and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Khalifa University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and began his career as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He later held the position of adjunct professor and director of the Clean Energy Engineering Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Additionally, he is an honorary professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, and the honorary founding director of the Institute of New Energy at North China Electric Power University.

Prof. Mohammed Ali holds a BSc in Exploration Geology from Cardiff University, an MSc in Geophysics from Birmingham University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from UWCN, and a PhD in Marine Geophysics from Oxford University. His research centers on geophysics, with a focus on tectonics, reservoir characterization, geophysical monitoring, and modeling. He also explores areas such as basin analysis, crustal studies, geothermal energy, mining, and carbon capture and storage.

Dr. Fantino graduated in Astronomy and earned a PhD in Space Sciences and Space Technologies from the University of Padua in Italy. She held several positions both in industry and in academia, specialising in space mission analysis, space geodesy, space astrometry, celestial mechanics and astrodynamics and partecipating in several projects of the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. After holding prestigious post-doctoral positions in Italy and Spain, she served as a lecturer and later as an associate professor in the School of Aeronautical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Dr. Aisha Al Suwaidi is an Associate Professor in Earth Sciences at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on reconstructing paleoclimate and environmental conditions during periods of extreme climate change in Earth's history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that includes geochemistry, geochronology, and sedimentology, her work has primarily explored the Southern Hemisphere, examining the timing, duration, and recovery of major climatic and environmental events during the Mesozoic era.

Dr. Diana Francis is a distinguished Climate Scientist and Environmental Expert, holding two Master’s degrees in Physics and Environmental Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences from Sorbonne University, Paris. With over a decade of experience at prestigious European research institutions, she joined Khalifa University in 2020 as the Head of the Environmental and Geophysical Sciences (ENGEOS) Lab.

Dr. Maryam R. Al Shehhi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Khalifa University, UAE, where she has been since 2019. She earned her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Ohio State University, where she also completed a two-year postdoctoral program at MIT. Her research interests include climate change, environmental modeling, marine environments, remote sensing, and water resources.

Dr. Frantz-Gerard Ossa Ossa is a multi-disciplinary geoscientist with a strong background on sedimentology, mineralogy, geobiology and low-temperature geochemistry. He received his Master degree in Biogeosciences, Environments and Petroleum Geology from the University of Dijon, France and was awarded Doctor of Science in Geobiology and Sedimentary Mineral Deposits from the University of Poitiers, France. After his final graduation, Dr. Ossa Ossa went to South Africa as a NRF-funded Postdoctoral Researcher, at the University of Johannesburg, to improve his skills on field and economic geology, and then to Germany as a DFG-funded Postdoctoral Research Staff, at the University of Tuebingen, to gain more experience on geochemical analytical tools. Before joining Khalifa University as an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Earth Science, he was recently a NERC-UKRI-funded Research Associate at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, UK and Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA.