Souraya Goumri-Said is Full professor of Physics at Alfaisal University (Riyadh, KSA). She received her PhD degree from the Bourgogne University in Dijon (France) on 2004. Her main area of research is density functional theory applied to material science and modeling the physical properties of functionalized materials such as perovskites, ceramics, carbides, nitrides, and materials for storage hydrogen. She also specializes in modeling optical, photonic devices and nanostructures for photovoltaic applications. Souraya is editor of open Physics (former the central European journal of physics,) within Dedegruyter edition since 2008. She edited her first book on 2006 about ab-initio methods applied to physical properties of semiconductors nitrides and perovskites. Souraya is author and co-author of more than 260 papers, 6 chapters, 2 published patents, and books with h-index=38. She is recipient of LEWAS - Leadership Excellence for Women Awards & Symposium Awards (edition 2022) and the Arab Environmental Excellence Award 2024 in the category of Environmental Scientific Innovation. She joined the advisory Editorial Board of computational condensed matter journal at Elsevier in 2021. Since February 2024, she is member of Editorial Board of Heliyon at cell edition. She was recognized in the “Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists List” in 2024.