Hisham El-Dessouky is Professor of Chemical Engineering since September, 2004 at the NWFP-EUT, Peshawar. He received his doctorate from Hanover University, West Germany, in 1981. and B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Cairo university, Egypt. His research interests are in desalination, energy storage, evaporative cooling, heat transfer, and heat exchanger design and membrane separation. Prof. El-Dessouky is world known in water desalination field. He published and presented more than 150 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He is the main author of the first textbook on desalination fundamentals published by Elsvier,2002. He has received many international and national awards including Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, it is the largest award for outstanding research and innovation in water fields.

state award for engineering, Egyptian Academy for Science, 2002, distinguished research award, Association of Arab Universities for the year 2002, distinguished research award, College of Engineering and Petroleum, Kuwait University, 1999/2000, distinguished research award, Kuwait University, 1999/2000. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Heat Transfer Engineering, International Journal of Nuclear Desalination, and Member of the International Advisory Board of the Power Plant Chemistry Journal.