Hawkar Ali Abdulhaq is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Atmospheric and Geospatial Data Sciences and Department of Geology, University of Szeged. He is currently in the third year of his PhD studies in Underground Thermal Energy Storage at the University of Szeged. He has been awarded recognition from the Mining Authority of Hungary for the Best Hungarian Presentation at EGPD2025 Conference in Szeged, Hungary. He has recently contributed to research projects in the fields of geothermal energy, mineral resources, and geomorphology. He has published approximately 25 papers as an author and co-author in various journals and serves as a contributor and reviewer for academic research initiatives. His teaching disciplines include geothermal energy and machine learning, and his research interests focus on geothermal storage, machine learning, and geoscience.