وليد حمداوي Oualid Hamdaoui

Oualid Hamdaoui is a full professor of chemical engineering at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and a founding member of the Algerian Academy of Sciences and Technologies. 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 received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemical Engineering from the University of Savoie (France) and his Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University. He received his Habilitation (Accreditation to Supervise Research) in Process Engineering from Annaba University. He has been ranked in 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 are sonochemistry, acoustic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, separation processes, and desalination and water treatment. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, more than 40 book chapters, and edited 3 books and authored 1 book published by Elsevier, edited  2 books published by De Gruyter, and authored 1 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 many awards including the Thomson Reuters Award in Engineering, Scopus Award (Elsevier) in Chemical Engineering, Francophonie Award for Young Researchers Option Sciences and Medicine, ranked first on the list of suitable candidates for the title of Full Professor (Technology Section) of the twenty-sixth (26th) session of the National University Commission, 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.