Samir Kamel holds a Ph.D. degree (1989) from Ain Shams University, Egypt, and is currently a cellulose chemistry and technology professor in the Cellulose and Paper Department, NRC, Egypt. He was a Vice Dean of the Chemical Industries Institute (2012 –2019) and a senior visiting professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology, University of Nancy, Epinal, France; the University of Montpellier, France; Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; the Institute of Macromolecules, Czech Republic, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary; and the Faculty of Science, the University of Jordan, Jordan. He has also been a foreign professor at the University of Malakand, Pakistan, the University of Sabha, and the University of Omar El-Mukhtar, Libya. He received an award of Scientific Excellence (2013) from NRC, Egypt, and an Award of Environmental Research from ASRT, Egypt (2020). He has also received two individual awards from the NRC and ASRT, Egypt. He is working on different national and international projects. His research interests in biomaterials systems focus on smart materials, nanocomposites, conducting materials, macromolecules, sensors, and hydrogels. He is a member of the Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, the International Journal of Organic Chemistry, Cellulose Chemistry and Technology, and the Frontiers in Chemistry (Polymer Chemistry) Editorial Board. His Scopus h-index is 30 and 2903 citations. He is a reviewer for international scientific journals.