Yarub Al-Douri, Ph.D., is Professor of Nanotechnology at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, Iraq, where he founded the Nanotechnology Engineering Master's program. He founded the Nano Computing Laboratory in Malaysia and is the recipient of numerous research awards from Austria, Japan, China, and others. He is Associate Editor of Nano-Micro Letters (Springer) and Editor-in-Chief of Experimental and Theoretical NANOTECHNOLOGY. He authored over 322 journal articles and 16 book chapters. His extensive research career has spanned throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.