Waleed HAMZA

Prof. Waleed Hamza has obtained his Ph.D. from Italy in Aquatic Ecology, in 1994. He has and is acting as principal investigator of different research projects in the field of Oceanography and Aquatic Ecology in Africa, Europe, and Asia. He obtained research grants exceeding 3,000,000 U$. He organized different international conferences between Egypt, Italy, Finland, Canada and UAE. He participated in more than 100 International, regional, and local conferences. He is teaching many undergraduate and graduate courses, such as Oceanography, Marine Biology, Coastal Zone Management, Aquatic Ecology, Principals of Environmental Science, Environmental Science I, Seminar, and supervising many Graduation Research Projects. He supervised and awarded different Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Egypt, Switzerland, Italy and UAE in the field of Aquatic Ecology. 

Prof. Hamza is acting as member in the editorial board of different scientific Journals such as Aquatic Ecology (Springer Publisher), Hydrobiologia (Elsevier Publisher) and Aquatic Ecosystem health and management (Taylor and Francis Publisher). 

He was the Egyptian PI and the European Community project partner for (Mediterranean Forecasting system project). He established the Numerical Modelling laboratory for Marine Ecosystems at Alexandria University. He is the representative of the Finnish EIA center in the Middle East. 

He has active research collaboration with Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen-Germany; and with the Finnish Environmental Institute in Helsinki-Finland as well as with the Italian Institute for the ecosystem studies – CNR-Italy and University del Salento-Italy. Recently he has awarded a Qatar foundation Grant together with colleagues from European Research Institutes and Qatar Ministry of Environment.

He is a poly lingual scientist. Prof. Waleed Hamza has published more than 100 international scientific peer reviewed publications and book chapters. He is a member of more than 10 International scientific societies and associations in the field of Limnology, Oceanography and Aquatic Ecology. He served as the Chairman of the Biology Dept. College of Science for the period 2001 until 2011. Actually, he is the Chair of the faculty Promotion Committee at the Biology Department and the College of Science, UAEU, since 2006 until now.