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.

Dr. Kashif Rasool is a sustainability and environmental scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). He earned his PhD in Environmental and Energy Engineering from the College of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kyungpook National University, Korea. 

His recent research focuses on the synthesis of novel green nanomaterials for water/wastewater purification and investigating microbial components of particulate matter in Qatar indoor and ambient air and its impact on public health. Dr. Rasool’s research efforts to date have been published in over 45 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. 

He is on review panels of several high-impact journals including ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Chemosphere, the Journal of Hazardous Material, the Chemical Engineering Journal, and Bioresource Technology.

Ivan Gladich received his master’s in physics from the University of Trieste and, afterwards, he was a post doc at Purdue University, USA, at the Academy of Science of Czech Republic, and at the International School for Advanced Studies, (SISSA), in Italy. He joined the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in 2015. 

His main field of expertise is the use of computational physical chemistry tools for the investigation of molecular-level processes occurring at technological and atmospheric relevant interfaces.

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. Yongsoo Park is an Associate Professor at the College of Health and Life Sciences and a Senior Scientist at Qatar Biomedical Research Institute. He received PhD in investigating exocytosis and plasticity of vesicle fusion at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea.

After completing his PhD degree in 2009, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany, being trained by a mentor Prof. Reinhard Jahn, a world-renowned scientist by his pioneering research into fusion and neurotransmitter release. In 2015, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute where he joined the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.

In 2019 Dr. Park moved to the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) and is coaffiliated at the College of Health and Life Sciences aiming to model neurological disease with patient-specific hiPSC-derived neurons. His lab focuses on extracellular vesicle biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer's disease. He also studies lipid dysregulation in neurological disease conditions with a focus on calcium signaling and vesicle fusion. By applying interdisciplinary approaches, his team investigates molecular mechanisms of neurological disorders and the development of therapeutics.

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.

Dr. Fadel Tissiris Professor at College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He graduated in Biology from the University Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah, Fes, Morocco and earned a PhD degree from Free University of Brussels. Fadel Tissir was appointed at the University of Louvain, and the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS) in 2005 and was promoted to the rank of Professor and Research Director FNRS in 2017.

His research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms implicated in development and diseases of the nervous system. He has been active in the field of developmental neuroscience for more than 20 years with emphasis on the role of planar cell polarity (PCP) and cytoskeletal proteins in health and diseases. He discovered the core component of PCP signaling, engineered constitutive and conditional mutant mice for PCP genes and uncovered their function in the developing and mature system.

Iman Ghazal holds a bachelor’s degree (BA) from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She majored in Childhood and Social Institutions and minored in Psychology.

She then completed a one-year graduate certificate program in Autism and Behavioral Science from Fanshawe College, Ontario. After graduating she moved to Saudi Arabia and started her career as an Early Intervention Specialist and a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Center for Autism Research – King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. During that time she worked alongside a multi-disciplinary team in early diagnosis and intervention for cases with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD.) Additionally, she was involved in different research and training projects including the educational consultancy, ABA and the Early Start Denver Model training programs, and the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) research study. She then completed a master’s in Special Education from the Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Education, Qatar University. Ghazal joined HBKU’s Qatar Biomedical Research Institute’s (QBRI’s) ASD Epidemiology Research team as a senior research associate in October 2016.