Dr. Hesham El-Kaliouby is a Professor of Geophysics at the National Research Center in Egypt at the Geophysical Sciences Department and a visiting professor at Central South University in China. El-Kaliouby was selected as the first European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) student lecturer for Africa in 2017 through the Student Lecture Tour )SLT) program about "Electromagnetic Methods for Near Surface Geophysics" El-Kaliouby was also selected as the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Honorary Lecturer for the Middle East and Africa in 2019 about "Induced polarization effect in time-domain electromagnetic prospecting, noise or signal?" His research interests involve electric, electromagnetic and GPR methods for geologic, mining, hydrogeologic, engineering and environmental applications. He also is interested in forward and inverse modeling techniques and the electrical properties of rocks on lab and field scales. He published many papers in top tier Journals and conferences. He also acts as reviewer for many top ranked Journals. El-Kaliouby used to work as an associate professor at the Sultan Qaboos University, Oman (2012– 2016). He also worked as a consultant in geophysics for the Saudi Geological Survey, Saudi Arabia (2011–2012) and a senior research associate at Lancaster University, UK (2009–2011). Prior to this he was an associate professor at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia (2005–2009). El-Kaliouby also worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the University of Arizona, USA (2002–2004). El-Kaliouby holds a bachelor‘s (honor) degree (1987) and master‘s degree (1995) in Geophysics, both from Cairo University, Egypt. He received his PhD in Geophysics (2001) from Cairo University through a joint channel program with the University of Arizona (USA).