Mohammad Issa, born in 1976, studied Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection in Syria, and achieved his Ph.D. by developing high-efficiency bioreactors to treat wastewater at Clausthal University of Technology in 2006. After that, he worked as Associate Professor for water preparation, wastewater treatment, and sustainability at Al-Baath University in Syria for ten years. Since 2017, he has been working in Germany as a guest scientist with the Membrane-Bioreactors group at Berlin University of Technology and then as a senior researcher in the CUTEC Research Center at Clausthal University of Technology in the field of microbial fuel cells, electrolysis technology, and renewable energy.