Ahmed Alalaiwe is an associate professor in the Pharmaceutics department and the dean of the College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia. He is a licensed consultant pharmacist. He earned his Ph.D. at the Pharmaceutics Department, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, in July 2015. He is a member of many committees at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University. He is also a chair of the Bioequivalence Studies committee of the SFDA. He is mainly interested in the pharmacokinetic study of therapeutic nano-metals. Specifically, he concentrates on manipulating their physicochemical properties, such as particle size, shape, and surface chemistry, for attempting an 'ideal' oral nano-pharmaceutical carrier model. Recently, gold and copper nanoparticles have been the trends of his research.