Kamilla Swart-Arries is an Associate Professor and Director of the Masters in Sport and Entertainment Management program, a joint degree with the University of South Carolina. She has 30 years of experience in sport, tourism, and event management that spans academia and the private sector and has consulted broadly in both public and private sectors.

Swart-Arries has worked in industry as a Sport and Facilities Manager at the Cape Town 2004 Olympic bid and as a Sponsorship Consultant for Octagon SA delivering strategic sponsorship services to major corporates in South Africa. She also headed the Durban Events Corporation – a public-private sector partnership with the City of Durban to use events to attract tourism where she was instrumental in driving the 2010 FIFA World Cup research agenda. Kamilla has headed major research projects managing field research at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games, and the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups.

She worked closely with Qatar Foundation's 2022 FIFA World Cup master program and the supreme committee for delivery and legacy in driving the research agenda. Kamilla served as Co-Chair of the World Association of Sport Management Conference Qatar 2023. She has been appointed to the Scientific Committee (research pillar) of the UNESCO Chair on Governance & Social Responsibility in Sports.

Annie Mathew is currently working as an administrative assistant with almost 23 years of successful experience in the administrative field, including the private, health, and research sectors. 

She obtained her bachelor's degree and has also taken a diploma in Information and Systems Management.

Mr. Janarthanan Ponraj graduated with an MSc degree in Electronics Science from the University of Madras and has a BSc degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University. Before joining the core lab facility in the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) as a Research Associate in May 2018, he worked as a Field Service Engineer for about 10 years on a complete range of transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) manufactured by the FEI company. His current responsibility includes imaging and characterization of samples on TEMs.

Dr. Abdulkarem Amhamed is a Senior Scientist, CO2 Cluster Program Director, and a Chartered Chemical Engineer by training with 22 years of experience in the oil and gas industry sector including Industry 4.0 and sustainable processes design. Dr. Amhamed earned his PhD and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Bradford University, UK, and from University of Salford, UK, respectively. He introduced the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) research and technology development to QEERI. 

Dr Amhamed has previously held many senior research and management positions, including serving as Strategic Research Project Lead between QP and UOP Honeywell (7.5 Million USD) and Engineering & Projects General Manager-ESSO, Libya. He has a solid experience in CO2 capturing and utilization, LNG, NGL and sour gas purification. His research and industrial experience has attracted more than $10M in external funding. Recently, he obtained the highest grant ($6,4 Million) in HBKU/Qatar Foundation (CO2 Cluster Project). As program director for the grant, he leads more than 29 researchers including PIs, students, and postdoctoral researchers. Dr. Amhamed was an adjunct professor in Benghazi University, where he taught several undergraduate and graduate courses such as chemical reactions, mass transfer, CCUS course, plant process design, and gas sweetening processes.

Yehia Manawi is a scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute’s (QEERI’s) Water Center and Natural and Environmental Hazards Observatory (NEHO). He works on pressure-driven membrane processes at the Water Center and on monitoring naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) in Qatar’s groundwater and seawater at NEHO.

Dr. Zhaoyang Liu is a Senior Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute's (QEERI) Water Center. He specializes in advancing water treatment technologies, with a number of his research outcomes published in top journals like Energy & Environmental Science, and Advanced Materials, and featured in Nature. Dr. Liu has an h-index of 45 on Google Scholar (Jan. 2023). Leading projects at QEERI, he focuses on addressing local challenges from the perspective of the Water-Energy-Food nexus. His team has developed pilot-scale water treatment prototypes. He is the holder of multiple patents (PCT, US, EU), one of which has been licensed to a commercial company in Singapore. He serves on the editorial boards for the journals of Desalination and Scientific Reports. Dr. Liu's experience extends to mentoring PhD candidates at HBKU.

Shahzada Pamir Aly is currently working as a research associate at the Water Center at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). He received his PhD degree in Sustainable Energy from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). His master’s degree is in Mechanical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He earned his bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. 

Dr. Wared Nour-Eldine obtained her PhD degree in Immunology from the University of Paris Descartes, Paris. She has a master’s degree in Immunology-Molecular Biology and Signaling, and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Lebanese University. During her PhD, she worked on the theme of innate and adaptive immunity in cardiovascular diseases, where she specifically dissected the role of natural killer (NK) cells in the development/exacerbation of atherosclerosis. 

During her previous studies, she established collaborations with multiple clusters to tackle questions related to inflammation, toxicity, and apoptosis pathways in different pathologies and supervised several masters and undergraduate students. She also contributed to academics through teaching the “Medical Trends in Immunology” course for honors program students.

Dr. Nour-Eldine is currently conducting her research in the Neurological Disorders Research Center (NDRC) at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI). Her research involves the identification of neuro-immune interactions in patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Mujaheed Pasha received his BSc and MSc in Electronic Science from Bangalore University, India. He has over a decade of experience in ultra-high vacuum systems, thin film deposition, and electron microscopy. He joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) Core Labs as a research associate in July 2018. In QEERI he works with different types of scanning electron microscopes (SEM), focused ion beam (FIB), electron probe micro analyzer (EPMA), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and PPMS etc.

Dr. Anas Abutaha received his BSc and MSc in Physics and Nuclear Physics at the University of Jordan in 2007 and 2010, respectively, with first class honors. In 2015, he earned his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. During his PhD research, he developed efficient thermoelectric nanomaterials for energy harvesting applications. In 2016, he joined the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore as a scientist. At IMRE, he developed models for charge transport in conducting polymers, and made nanofabricated devices for measuring charge transport in 2D materials and conducting polymers. In 2020, Dr. Abutaha joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), as a scientist. His research covers multiple areas in solid state physics and materials characterization. Dr. Abutaha won several awards such as the grand prize of ‘Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA)’ held at KAUST in 2014, and the third place in ‘Sustainability at My School Competition’ held in Materials Research Society 2014 Fall meeting in Boston, USA. Dr. Abutaha has authored and co-authored several research papers in peer-reviewed journals and has also participated in internationally recognized conferences in applied physics and materials science.