وليد حمداوي Oualid Hamdaoui

Oualid Hamdaoui is a full professor of chemical engineering at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, a founding member of the Algerian Academy of Sciences and Technologies, and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He currently heads the Advanced Oxidation and Separation Processes research group. After receiving his B.Sc. and M.Sc., both in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University (Algeria), he obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemical Engineering from the University of Savoie (France) and his Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University. He also earned his Habilitation (Accreditation to Supervise Research) in Process Engineering from Annaba University. He has been ranked among the top two percent of the world’s best scientists in a database created by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. His main research interests include sonochemistry, acoustic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, separation processes, and desalination and water treatment. He has published more than 260 papers in peer-reviewed journals, over 40 book chapters, and has edited three books and authored one book published by Elsevier, edited two books published by De Gruyter, and authored one book published by Springer Nature. He has held several academic appointments as coordinator of M.S. and Ph.D. programs in chemical and environmental process engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the Thomson Reuters Award in Engineering, the Scopus Award (Elsevier) in Chemical Engineering, the Francophonie Award for Young Researchers – Sciences and Medicine option, first place on the list of suitable candidates for the title of Full Professor (Technology Section) of the twenty-sixth session of the National University Commission, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences (Jordan), and the Best Scientific Publication Award from the National Agency for the Development of University Research.