PROF. Dr. Mohamed Qtaishat

He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada. He also received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology. His research work during the postgraduate degrees was mainly on desalination and membrane distillation. Dr. Qtaishat has 5 patents to his name, which are mainly focusing on desalination membranes development. Furthermore, he has more than 50 published Journal papers with an i10 index and H-index of 20 and 18, respectively and a total citation of 2680. In addition, he has contributed to many books published by an elite publisher including the UNESCO encyclopedia of life sciences. Dr. Qtaishat contribution was not limited to the scientific contribution, one of his major objectives is technology development and researching in more applicable and solutions of water, energy and environmental fields, he was the first prize winner of the technology venture challenge of Canada in 2008, Recently and Most importantly, Dr. Qtaishat is part of a regional project to commercialize membrane distillation for large-scale desalination industry and his patents is the core of this project with currently assets and investments of around $5 million.