Abdul Hai Alami Currently a Professor at and Chairman of the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Program at University of Sharjah (2012-present). Professor Alami has received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. Since then, he has held the positions at the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Hashemite University in Jordan (2006-2010) and Mechanical Engineering Faculty at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Al Ain (2010-2012). The current areas of interest of Prof Alami is the synthesis and analysis of materials used in the third-generation photovoltaic solar cells, as well as novel ways of mechanical energy storage (CAES, CGES, and buoyancy force).