Sabbah Ataya obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH-Aachen University in 2006. He began his academic career as a teaching assistant at Suez Canal University from 1998 to 1999 before joining the Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering at Suez University, Egypt, where he served as an Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2013 and an Associate Professor from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, he joined the College of Engineering at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Saudi Arabia, where he currently holds a faculty position. His research interests focus on materials engineering, energy materials, failure analysis, renewable energy, and advanced materials. ‪ Sabbah Ataya—‪Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SerHw1kAAAAJ&hl=en