Fundamentals of Geoenvironmental Engineering

Prof. Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed: Prior to being the General Managing Director of EX Scientific Consultants on July 2020, Prof. Mohamed was employed by number of higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Canada, where he had over 42 years of experience as a faculty member as well as an academic and research administrator. In addition, Prof. Mohamed is actively serving as the Senior Scientific Advisor to Uberbinder Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA, since January 2020, and the Senior Scientific Advisor to Uberbinder Limited, Oxford, UK, since January 2022.

Prof. Evan K. Paleologos is Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Engineering Management and Project Management, College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University (ADU), United Arab Emirates (UAE). He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. from New York University (NYU), NY, and a Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Az. His expertise lies in geo-environmental engineering, risk analysis, and in water resources and waste management. He is the author of 5 books on geo-environmental engineering and environmental risk analysis published by Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, and the Geological Society of America (GSA), and of over 140 scientific papers. Recently, one of his papers received the “Environmental Geotechnics Prize 2023” by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). His career includes working for the US high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, NV, being a tenured professor at the University of South Carolina (USC), subsequently at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, and currently at ADU in the UAE. He has founded two research centers, the USC Center for Water Research and Policy, and the ADU Center of Excellence on Sustainable Built Environment. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors in USA, which included the South Carolina State’s “Researchers of Carolina,” and the USC’s “Initializer,” and “USC President” awards. In Greece, concurrently with being a faculty at TUC he had served as Science Advisor to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and as Deputy Chairman of the board of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Co (EYDAP). He has been Associate Editor of three international journals.