Khaled Bani‑Melhem graduated from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) with a BEng (Chemical Eng.) and a MEng (Chemical Eng.) in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Khaled Bani‑Melhem received his Ph.D. (Civil and Environmental Eng.) from Concordia University, Montreal–Canada in 2008. In August 2022, Khaled Bani‑Melhem joined the Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) at Qatar University as a research associate professor. Before joining Qatar University, he worked at the Hashemite University in the Department of Water Management and Environment from 2012 to 2018 as an assistant professor and from 2018 to 2022 as an associate professor. Between September 2016 and September 2019, Khaled Bani‑Melhem served as the chairman of the Water Management and Environment Department at Hashemite University. Before joining the Hashemite University in 2012, he worked at the American University in Cairo (AUC) from February 2010 to August 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher on a big project funded by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His research interests are in the general area of physical, chemical and biological processes for water and wastewater treatments; specifically, he focuses on membrane processes for water quality control and water reuse.