He obtained his B.Sc in Civil Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman in 1998. Then he continued his postgraduate studies in the area of Environmental Engineering where he obtained M.Sc from Imperial College, UK in 2000 and PhD from University of Alberta, Canada in 2007. His research interest covers several areas among environmental engineering including fundamentals of water and wastewater treatment processes, advanced oxidation processes, water and wastewater reactors modeling, nanotechnology applications for water and wastewater treatment, climate change and impacts on environmental systems, and air pollution modeling and management.