Dr. Nizar Al-Shar’i is a professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy, Qatar University (QU), Doha, Qatar. He earned a BS Pharm degree in 2001 and an MPharm in medicinal Chemistry in 2007 from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and technology (JUST), Irbid, Jordan. In 2013, he graduated from Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, with a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Computer-Aided Drug Design, and then he joined the Faculty of Pharmacy at JUST as a full-time lecturer. In April 2013, he was promoted to assistant professor, then to associate professor in June 2018, and in April 2023 he was promoted to full professor.

During that time, he was appointed to many administrative positions. He started as an assistant dean for postgraduate and quality assurance affairs, then as a chairperson for the department of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy, and finally as a vice dean for accreditation and quality assurance where he was in charge of the ACPE accreditation file. Meanwhile, he also chaired many institutional committees such as assessment committee, accreditation and quality assurance committee, and participated in many committees such as strategic planning, scientific research, postgraduate studies, to name a few.

In terms of research, he interested in drug discovery via applying Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) methods, and Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation. He also published many articles (over 50) in peer-reviewed international indexed journals. He has a firm believe that the integration of experimental and theoretical approaches, particularly through CADD and molecular modeling, provides unparalleled insights into the systems under investigation which are pivotal for advancing drug discovery.