Biography:

Prof. El-Askary received his Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics from George Mason University in 2004 along with his two MS degrees in Computational sciences and Earth Systems Sciences. He is the 2015 recipient of the Chapman University's elite Senior Wang-Fradkin Professorship award. He is also named as the regional coordinator on a 3 million Euro grant from the European Union?s (EU) Horizon 2020 to start February 2016. The three year project, known as GEO-CRADLE, which stands for Coordinating and integrating state-of-the-art Earth Observation Activities in the regions of North Africa, Middle East and Balkans and Developing Links with GEO related initiatives toward GEOSS, will have its kick-off meeting in February of 2016 in Europe. His research interests include dust storms monitoring and detection using different remote sensing technologies as well as studying other extreme events. He is also involved in studying air pollution problems over mega cities due to natural and man-made effects as well as climate change and its impacts on sea level rise and coral reefs for coastal areas. Dr. El-Askary?s research has been supported by National Science Foundation, NASA, United States Department of Agriculture and European Union.

Prof. El-Askary has published over a 100 refereed research publications, conferences full paper and book chapters in these research areas. Dr. El-Askary?s research has been supported by NSF, NASA, USDA and EU. Dr. El-Askary has received the Saudi Arabia award hosted by the Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) affiliated with the League of Arab states for the best published article in Environmental Management among 150 articles in 2006. He is a also member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), AGU, EGU, COSPAR, and Phi Beta Delta Honor Society.

Today Prof. El-Askary views himself as an Earth System Scientist with a major interest in hazards, atmospheric events and climate. He is particularly interested in events that have a glocal impact (going from global to local) and mixing scenarios between natural and anthropogenic generated aerosols. In 2016, he was honored as one of the top Egyptian scientists living abroad by the Ministry of State for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Affairs. Since then, he has been finding all possible ways to give back to Egypt through his scientific research and connections with the wider international scientific community. As part of his leadership on a European Union?s (EU) Horizon 2020 grant, he was able to develop Egypt?s first Solar Atlas showing a variable Solar Map of Egypt that will facilitate the decision makers and determine the best practices in support to the renewable solar energy setup at regional level, for the benefit of the wider South-East Mediterranean region.

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