Hassan E. Alfadala, PhD, is the Managing Director of Process Technology — a Qatar-based company that offers consulting and other technical services to the process industries (Email: alfadala@pt-qatar.com). He has 23 years of experience in process design and in the chemical, petrochemical, gas processing, and environmental industries. He served as the head of the Chemical Engineering Dept. and the Dean of Engineering at Qatar Univ. and is the Founding Director of Qatar Univ.’s Gas Processing Center. He has also held management positions at Qatari Diar Investment Co. He received a BS in natural gas engineering and an MS in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and a PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of South Florida.