Prof. Y. Al-Hadeethi received his B.Sc. degree in physics (first class with honors) from Al-Mustansiriya University-Baghdad, Iraq, in 1982 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Laser-Physics from Essex University, UK, in 1986 and 1995, respectively. In 1995, Yas joined the Max-Born Institute for nonlinear-optics and short-pulse spectroscopy, Berlin, as a postdoc fellow. He acted as principal investigator in more than 60 projects. Yas worked for HiPER, “the European High-Power Laser Energy Research facility for Laser‐induced thermonuclear fusion”. He is a Professor of Laser Physics at the Physics Dept., King AbdulAziz University (KAU) and the head of the lithography research group at KAU. He was a member of the SPIE—The International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers—Washington DC since 1987. Yas is the winner of the Best Researcher Award at KAU in Basic and Life Sciences 2020. He is the winner of the Best Postgraduates Supervisor Award in Basic and Life Sciences at KAU for the year 2022. Yas received a two-year research award from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in 2009.