Abdelfattah Soliman earned his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Alexandria University in Egypt, a diploma in international nuclear law from Montpellier University in France, and a fellowship from the World Nuclear University in Sweden. Soliman worked as a reactor physicist, reactor operator, and reactor experimentalist at the Egyptian Second Research Reactor. He also worked as a faculty member at the Nuclear Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. He conducted research in several areas, including nuclear reactor calculations, nuclear technology, modern education pedagogy, sustainability, and knowledge management. Soliman was nominated as a member of the American Nuclear Society Public Communication Committee and Accreditation Policy and Procedures Committee. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and IEEE.