Prof. Abdul Ghani Olabi serves as the Director of the Sustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Centre at the University of Sharjah, UAE. He holds both an M.Eng. and a Ph.D. from Dublin City University, Ireland, and has held academic and research positions at prestigious institutions, including the National Research Council of Italy, the FIAT Research Centre in Italy, Dublin City University, and the Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS).

Prof. Olabi is the founder of two renowned international conferences: the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection (SEEP) and the International Conference on Materials Science and Smart Materials (MSSM). In addition to his contributions to academia, he plays a pivotal role in academic publishing, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of the Renewable Energy (Elsevier), the Encyclopedia of Green Materials (Elsevier), and the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier). He is also the Editor of the Reference Module in Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier).

Prof. Olabi and his team have made significant contributions to renewable energy and energy storage systems through innovative research projects. They have been granted numerous patents in areas such as hydrogen production, advanced PEM fuel cells, and the development of innovative supercapacitors and batteries.