Dr Anwarul Hasan, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Qatar University, Qatar. He joined the MIE department at QU in September 2015 prior to which he was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and a visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, USA. Earlier, Dr Hasan obtained his PhD from University of Alberta, Canada in 2010. He worked in industry in Canada during 2010-2011, and was a National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Research Fellow at Harvard and MIT during 2012-2013. Dr Hasan has more than 55 peer reviewed papers including about 35 journal articles and 20 conference proceeding papers. His current research interests are in the areas of Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, and Biomechanics areas particularly for cardiovascular, bone and neural applications.