Prof. Dr. Aiman El Saadi is an Egyptian professor and senior water-resources scientist at the National Water Research Center (NWRC). He has been associated with NWRC since 1995 and currently serves as Vice President for Research Plan Affairs. He is a specialist in water resources and environmental management, with a research portfolio spanning water hydraulics, environmental impact assessment, water-quality assessment and reuse, water-quality monitoring networks, pollution control, environmental risk assessment, environmental databases, statistical analysis, GIS, remote sensing, mathematical modelling, water-quality modelling and decision-support systems. His research career demonstrates a distinctive progression from water-quality monitoring and environmental engineering toward statistical modelling, remote sensing, GIS, decision support and integrated management of scarce and non-conventional water resources.