Mohamed Ezzat is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Prince Sultan University (PSU), Riyadh, KSA, specializing in geotechnical engineering with a focus on resilient infrastructure applications. He earned his MSc in 2013 and a Ph.D. in 2018 from Ain Shams University, Egypt. Since joining PSU in 2019, he co-founded the Structures and Materials (S&M) research lab and secured six research grants between 2020 and 2023 for his work on resilient and sustainable infrastructures.
He received PSU Research Excellence awards in 2021 (2nd Prize) and 2023 (1st Prize) for his climate change-related research. M.E. Al-Atroush serves as the secretary of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the Saudi Arabia Section, a member of the ASCE Geotechnical Institute (GI) soil improvement technical committee, and a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and the Fabricated Geomembranes Institute (FGI). Additionally, he founded and advises the ASCE Student Chapter at Prince Sultan University. Beyond academia, he is a licensed professional engineer and has served as the principal of a geotechnical engineering consulting firm, contributing expertise to over 250 projects across the Middle East, encompassing diverse areas such as site investigations, slope stability evaluations, and deep foundation design.
