Adel Sharif is Professor of Water Engineering and Process Innovation, and Founder Director of the Centre for Osmosis Research and Applications, (CORA) at the University of Surrey, UK. Prof. Sharif is a winner of The Queen’s 2011 Anniversary Prize for Water Research and the 2005 UK Royal Society Brian Mercer Senior Award for Innovation in Science and Technology. He is also the winner of the 2008 Science Business first pan-European Academic Enterprise Award in the category of Energy/Environment. CORA water technologies were also awarded the Institute of Chemical Engineers 2011 Innovation and Excellence award in the Water Supply and Management category.

He is a founder of Modern Water plc, a London Exchange AIM Market listed company specialised in desalination and renewable power generation. Prof. Sharif is a member of the Qatar Foundation’s Expatriate Arab Scientists Forum. He obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering from Baghdad University in 1986, followed by M.Sc and PhD from University of Wales Swansea in 1989 and 1992 respectively. He has over 100 publications; is an inventor and co-inventor of more than 15 patents and has supervised over twenty PhD projects and more than 40 M.Sc dissertations.

Merdaw AA, Sharif AO, Derwish GAW. (2010) 'Water permeability in polymeric membranes, Part II'. DESALINATION, 257 (1-3), pp. 184-194. doi: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.02.013 Hassan GF, Sharif AO, Tuzun U, Tate A. (2010) 'The effect of many-body interactions on the electrostatic force in an array of spherical particles'. JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, 346 (1), pp. 232-235. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.01.053 Merdaw AA, Sharif AO, Derwish GAW. (2010) 'Water permeability in polymeric membranes, Part I'. DESALINATION, 260 (1-3), pp. 180-192. doi: 10.1016/j.desal.2010.04.042 Sharif AO, Merdaw AA, Al-Bahadili H, Al-Taee A, Al-Aibi S, Rahal Z, Derwish GAW. (2009) 'A new theoretical approach to estimate the specific energy consumption of reverse osmosis and other pressure-driven liquid-phase membrane processes'. Desalination and Water Treatment, 3 (1-3), pp. 111-119. doi: 10.5004/dwt.2009.295