Abdelhalim Zekry is a Full Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, (and previously at King Saud University), where he is also the head of the Communication and Electronics laboratory. He has over 50 years of academic and industrial experience including conducting high-quality research, teaching advanced courses, and consulting dozens of companies and government agencies throughout his career. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1981, and he has supervised more than 110 Master theses and 40 Ph.D. theses at several universities. In addition, he founded and established the Microelectronic Research and Development Unit at the Fac. of Eng., ASU. He also established the electronics for communications laboratory for designing, implementing, and testing the building blocks of the advanced electronic communication systems according to the ITU standards. He has authored more than 350 papers along with writing more than 7 books published by several international organizations. He has received dozens of grants and awards as recognition for his contributions to the research community, where he Introduced more than 8000 expertise answers with more than 1.5 million reads on specialized scientific questions on Researchgate in many topics related to electrical, electronic, and communication engineering. Due to this contribution, which has proven to be extremely impactful and useful for researchers worldwide, Prof. Abdelhalim’s profile has been ranked number one among all researchers on the Researchgate platform in the world. His research topics cover communication technologies, semiconductor materials, semiconductor devices, microelectromechanical devices, electronic circuits, solid-state circuits, solar cells, solar systems, photoelectrochemical devices, and applications in hydrogen production as well as communication and electronics.

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