Prof. Husam Alshareef obtained his BS degree in Ceramics Engineering from Alfred University, (Alfred, USA), and his MS and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. He spent 2 years as postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, United States. He then embarked on a 10-year career in the semiconductor industry, holding positions at Micron Technology and Texas Instruments. There he worked on developing new materials and processes for integrated circuit fabrication. In 2009 he joined King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) as Founding Professor, where he initiated an active research group focusing on developing nanomaterials for energy and electronic applications. The author of nearly 530 articles and 80 issued patents, he is a Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science (according to Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics). He has won numerous awards including the UNDP Undergraduate Fellowship, Seth Sprague Physics Award, North Carolina State University Dean’s Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education Electronic Materials Fellowship, Sandia National Laboratory post-doctoral Fellowship, the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award (2006), two DOW Sustainability Awards with his students in (2011) and (2014), the AH Shoman Award for Excellence in Energy Research (2016), the KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award (2018), and the Kuwiat Prize in Clean and Sustainable Technologies (2018). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics (InstP), Fellow of the National Academic of Inventors (NAI), and IEEE Distinguished Speaker in Nanotechnology. He was Chair of the 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston, USA, and has served on various MRS committees. He was Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering program at KAUST from January 2013 till January 2016.