Prof. Dr. Walid Tawfik

Professor Walid Tawfik is the Chairman of the Department of Laser Applications in Metrology, Photochemistry and Agriculture (LAMPA), and head of the central lab at the National Institute of Laser (NILES), at Cairo University, Egypt. He received his PhD on 2000 in laser spectroscopy, “Study of photon molecular interaction dynamics using short laser pulses”, where he did his experiments at Technical Uni. Munich, Germany. He is interested in the applications of laser-induced plasma spectroscopy and ultrafast lasers in environmental pollution detection and laser cancer treatment; currently, he has two international projects in these fields. In Oct 2021, 2022,2023 he was officially chosen two times among the distinguished scientists in the world's top 2% - in the field of photonics, according to the survey given by Stanford University USA. In May 2022, he was chosen and awarded the World Scientist Medal “Scholar Badge,” representing the Arab Republic of Egypt through 103 countries by ARID (Arab research id) Organization. He has published two books’ chapters and several Scopus papers. He is a senior member at international professional societies like IEEE, OSA, APS, and SPIE. He has collaborated with different international groups in the applications of laser spectroscopy and ultrafast lasers at Georgia Tech USA, Uni. of Electro-Communications Japan, POSTECH Uni. South Korea, Quaid-i-Azam Uni. Pakistan, KSU Saudi Arabia, Max-Planck Inst. Germany and Lodz Uni. of Tech. Poland.