Anwar Ul-Hamid received his B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Engineering & Technology in Lahore, Pakistan in 1991. He received his Ph.D,. for Oxidation of High Temperature alloys/Analytical Electron Microscopy at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge in 1996.
He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals and proceedings, and is currently Coordinator of the Materials Characterization Laboratory (MCL)/Research Institute at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.