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Director and the President of The International Society of Multiphysics (www.multiphysics.org), the Editor-in-Chief of 'The International Journal of Multiphysics' and the Chairman of the associated annual conferences. He has also served on advisory boards of many international conferences and events. He is Fellow Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Fellow Member of The Nuclear Institute, Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Member of the Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as the Chairman of the Manchester Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society and he has been a member of a number of national and international scientific committees; and advisor to a few industrial and governmental bodies including the Office for Nuclear Regulations (ONR), in addition to being the lead person to devise the multiphysics competence standards for European Union. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of European Nuclear Education Network and is currently a member of the Council and the Board of Directors of NAFEMS, the Vice Chairman of its Multiphysics Working Group, a board member of CSDI Foundation and also the Vice Chairman of the Association of Aerospace Universities. He has served as a Visiting Professor, Scientist and Senior Research Fellow at a number of institutions including Universities of Manchester (UK), Tongji (China), Kumamoto (Japan), Strathclyde (UK), King Saud (Saudi Arabia), Lille (France); as well as Beijing Institute of Technology (China) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Hassan A Khawaja is Associate Professor at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He is a member of the process and gas team at Department of Engineering and Safety and the leader of newly established research group IR imaging, spectroscopy and numerical modelling. He is also serving as a Vice President (Scandinavia) in the International Society of Multiphysics. He is conference coordinator for annually organized Multiphysics Conference and Editorial Manager for the International Journal of Multiphysics. He completed his PhD in CFD-DEM (Computational Fluid Dynamics - Discrete Element Modelling) simulations of two-phase flow in fluidized beds from University of Cambridge in 2013 at the age of 29. He is an accomplished young researcher who has been recognized at an early age and has been awarded distinguished prizes such as the Multiphysics Student Prize in 2010 and the W. F. Redaway Prize in 2011. He has worked on research projects with international research collaborations in the short span of his career. He was the researcher on Norwegian Research Council (NFR) financed project NOTUR - the Norwegian Metacenter for Computational Science (Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete Element Modelling of Fluidized Bed). He was Post Doctorate Researcher at Narvik University College (sponsored by NFR under PETROMAKS program). He was also a research fellow at the University of Salford, UK on EU Project: VISIONAIRE. He was granted a pilot research grant on an industry-linked project from Nordland County under the VRI (Programme for Regional R & D and innovation). He is Chief Technical Officer and the founding member of Windtech startup He is an active researcher who has been publishing peer-reviewed journal papers, presenting at international conferences, recuring research funding and encouraging innovative research. He completed formal training in Pedagogical Competence for Higher Education in 2015 and performing his duties as lecturer and supervisor for Bachelors, Masters and PhD students.