Prof. Arafat received a Ph.D. and BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Univ. of Cincinnati (USA) (2000) and the Univ. of Jordan (1996), respectively. Between 2018 and 2022, he was the director of the Center for Membranes and Advanced Water Technology (CMAT) at Khalifa University. He is an expert on “sustainable desalination”, an approach that integrates interdisciplinary tools to enhance the global deployment of desalination. The sustainable desalination concept was first introduced in 2017 in Prof. Arafat’s book: “Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic and Environmental Approach”. Throughout his career, he supervised 59 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students and received 29 research grants, totaling more than $16M. His research was published in 310+ book chapters, journal papers, and conference presentations, in addition to two US patents. He was invited to deliver over 70 keynote and invited talks worldwide. Prof. Arafat received the Khalifa Award for Education, the Mohammad Bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Excellence, the United States Department of Energy Secretarial Honor Award, the Mondialogo Engineering Award, and the Univ. of Cincinnati Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship. He is a member of the selection committees of the Zayed Sustainability Prize and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award.