Professor Sayma obtained BSc in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from Birzeit University in Palestine in 1987, MSc in Energy Technology from Salford University in 1990 and PhD from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1994. He is currently the the Executive Dean of the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences at Brunel University of London. HE was previously the Head of Engineering at City, University of London and a professor of Energy Engineering. He has been a professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics as University of Sussex between 2006 and 2013 and held various research positions at Imperial College London between 1994 and 2005 including a Principal Research Fellow and a Rolls Royce Research Fellow at Imperial College.