Dr. Mohamed Bououdina is the Director of the Nanotechnology Centre at the University of Bahrain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble - France in 1995. He has over 17 years of experience and worked at various places including the University of Nottingham and Queen Mary University of London (UK), National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research (Tsukuba, Japan), Institute Neel (Grenoble, France), etc. He is the author and co-author of more than 140 papers published in learned international journals and contributed to some book chapters. His work has been presented at many international conferences as invited speaker, oral and poster. He is associated editor in numerous international journals such as, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, International Journal of Nanoscience, International Journal of Nanoparticles (Asia Regional Editor), International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (Asia Regional Editor), International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, etc. He supervised and co-supervised MSc and PhD students. He was awarded numerous research grants and had extensive research projects within the industry. Moreover, he is a member of International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE, USA), etc. Dr. M. Bououdina has broad areas of expertise including Renewable Energy (Hydrogen Storage), Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials for Spintronics, Carbon Nanostructures, Neutron Diffraction, Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications, Biomaterials, Functional Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Intermetallics, etc.J. Paulo Davim (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5659-3111) received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) by IET-London. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He also has an interest in Management, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master’s students, as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisor for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 120 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 250 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 52+/9000+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 57+/11000+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 73+/17000+). [Editor]
