Hala Khalid Al-Jassar is currently an Associate Professor at the Physics department of Kuwait University and she is the leader of the Space and Climate Physics research group. She obtained her M.Sc in Astronomy from the University of Sussex and her Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of London (UCL) at Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL). During the last 27 years, she has established remote sensing laboratories in the Physics department and developed a remote sensing program in Engineering Physics at the Physics Department, Kuwait University. She has been the PI and a CO-I of around 17 projects granted by Kuwait University (KU), Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Science (KFAS), Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), and the British Council. Al-Jassar has received two KFAS prizes for the best research papers. The first prize was in 2006 and the second prize was in 2012.