​Prof. M. Rafiq H. Siddiqui was awarded his PhD in 1986 from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He worked for over four years, as a scientist in a national laboratory in India. He then moved to the UK in 1992 where he worked for nearly fourteen years as a senior scientist in the Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool. In 2004 he joined the Department of Chemistry, King Saud University, where he is a full professor. His research focuses on catalysis, nanotechnology and materials chemistry. To his credit, he has over100 papers, five patents and two books (translated to Arabic).