Issa El-Hussain obtained his Ph.D. in geophysics in 1991 from Northern Illinois University, Illinois, USA. He worked with an environmental consulting engineering firm for seven years and then joined Southeast Missouri State University in 1997 to co-direct the earthquake study center and teach geophysics at the Earth Science Department. He joined the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) as a Fulbright Scholar in 2001. He joined SQU in 2002 to direct the Earthquake Monitoring Center. He is the principal investigator for several projects, including seismic hazard assessment, tsunami hazard assessment, site effect, and seismic microzoning. He established research collaboration with several international institutions. He published more than 50 articles in refereed journal and more than 50 technical reports