Dr. Ziad Moussa completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Calgary, earning his BSc in 1998 and his PhD in 2003. His doctoral research, supervised by Professor Thomas Back, focused on the synthesis and evaluation of novel selenium-based chiral auxiliaries and glutathione peroxidase mimetics. After completing postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University (2003–2006) under the guidance of Professor Daniel Romo, Dr. Moussa joined the Department of Chemistry at Taibah University, where he served as an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). His research interests center on the development of synthetic methodologies, as well as the synthesis and characterization of bioactive organic and heterocyclic molecules.