Conference Chair - Prof. Mohamed Gamal El-Din, University of Alberta, Canada

Prof. Mohamed Gamal El-Din, University of Alberta, Canada（H-index：64）

Dr. Mohamed Gamal El-Din is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the fundamentals of advanced and innovative treatment approaches for water and wastewater (municipal and industrial such as oil and gas). Since 2011, he holds an NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment. He is also one of the Theme Leads of the Future Energy Systems (FES) theme on Resilient Reclaimed Land and Water Systems. Because of his contributions in the area of oil sands process water treatment/reclamation, in 2017, Dr. Gamal El-Din received the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership (ASTech) Foundation Award for Innovation in Oil Sands Research. In 2019, he was appointed Jinshan Distinguished Professor at Jiangsu University and in 2020 he was awarded Research Chair in Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University (China). Recently, Dr. Gamal El-Din was appointed Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Sustainable and Resilient Wastewater Treatment for Reuse. He is also the Director of the Water Research Centre in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta. Dr. Gamal El-Din’s research has resulted in 310 refereed journal papers and 397 conference and workshop presentations, among other publications. Currently, Dr. Gamal El-Din’s h-index is 64, with 14,364 citations as per Google Scholar.