Saviour A. Umoren is a Professor/Senior Research Scientist at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials (IRC-AM), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his PhD in Polymer Science from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria in 2008. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the State Key Laboratory for Corrosion and Protection, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, courtesy of a TWAS – CAS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award from May 2009–April 2010, and a visiting researcher at Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry (INIFTA), La Plata, Argentina, courtesy of a TWAS–UNESCO Associateship appointment Dr. Umoren has authored/co-authored over 150 research articles in international peer reviewed journals, including several critical reviews and book chapters. He is an Associate Editor of Petroleum Research (Elsevier) and Frontiers in Materials—Polymeric Materials and Composite section, as well as a member of the editorial boards of thirteen (13) international journals. He has served as a reviewer to more than 150 international journals. He has been granted five (5) US patents. He is the co-editor of a book entitled “Corrosion Inhibitors in the Oil and Gas Industry” published by Wiley in 2020 and an author of the book “Polymeric Materials in Corrosion Inhibition: Fundamentals and Applications published by Elsevier in June 2022.