Dr. Mahmoud Elgendi is an associate professor of thermo-fluid engineering at UAEU. In 1998, he received his B.Sc., then he worked as a Project Engineer in Petrojet, Egypt. He joined Minia University in 1999 as a demonstrator and was promoted to associate professor since 2018. He received his M.Sc. also from Minia University, but his Ph.D. from Nagoya University, Japan in 2010 where he worked as a research assistant. After his Ph.D., he obtained a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from Ulsan University, South Korea, in cooperation with Hyundai Heavy Industry. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has several international publications and good experience in entrepreneurship. His research interests are thermo-fluid, turbomachinery, CFD, fluid mechanics, wind energy, and heat transfer.