Prof. Ahmed Saad Gomaa Khalil is the founder and group leader of ESTG. Prof. Khalil received his PhD in Physics and Materials Science in 2008 from Max Planck Institute in Germany. He received his B. Sc and M. Sc. in Physics from Cairo University in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Prof. Khalil was a postdoctoral associate (2008-2010) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and a visiting scientist at IBM Research labs in Zurich, Switzerland (2010-2011) and the University of California Berkley, USA (2013). His scientific research has been published in highly ranked journals, such as Advanced Materials, Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Desalination, Carbon and Journal of Membrane Science. Prof. Khalil’s research interests expand into different areas including water desalination, printed electronics, and solar energy. Over the last 5 years, Prof. Khalil has succeeded to attract more than Euro 5 Million from national and international funding organizations for his research and teaching activities at Fayoum University. These activities have been done in close collaboration with more than 50 academic and industrial partners from USA, Europe, Asia and the Arab world. Since 2016, Prof. Khalil is an elected member of the Arab German Academy of Science and Humanities (AGYA) in Germany. He is currently a Professor of Materials Science at Faculty of Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt and on sabbatical leave from his position at Faculty of Science, Fayoum University.

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