Maissa Azab is SCIplanet Editor-in-Chief, and Head of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Cultural Outreach Sector Publications Unit since 2013, after leading the Publications Team at the BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) since 2006. Maissa graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1999, and joined the PSC in 2004. She has always enjoyed a diversity of interests that usually combine the artistic with the realistic; hence, her great passion for combining art and science, which eventually inspired her to use the art of the written word and graphic design to deliver science to the general public, with the aim of engaging and enlightening Egyptian minds. She is also the Executive Director of the North Africa and Middle East Science centers network (NAMES) after serving as NAMES Secretary for ten years since the network’s inception in 2006.