Dr. Othman Zalloum obtained a PhD in Physics in 1994 from the National University of Ireland (NUI); University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. He is a professional engineer and a Professional Physicist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the Palestine Polytechnic University. Dr. Zalloum held several postdoctoral research positions in the United States and Canada. His current research interests includes computational physics, modeling, and simulation studies.