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Usama Al Khawaja obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Jordan in 1992 and Master’s degree in Physics from the same university in 1996 with thesis research on two-dimensional neutral Fermi systems. He earned his Ph.D. degree in theoretical Physics with dissertation research on Bose-Einstein condensation from the University of Copenhagen in 1999. He spent afterwards three years of postdoctoral re- search at Utrecht University in the Netherlands before joining the United Arab Emirates University in 2002 as an assistant professor. In 2023 he moved to the University of Jordan as a full professor at the department of Physics. His main research interests are integrability and exact solutions, nonlinear and quantum optics, quantum computation, and Bose-Einstein condensation. His main achievements in integrability and exact solutions include developing a systematic search method of finding Lax pairs of a given nonlinear partial differential equation. He also developed a highly-accurate convergent power series method for solving regular and fractional nonlinear partial differential equations. He authored more than 100 papers and obtained two patents on applying discrete solitons in all-optical operations and converging light using acoustic waves.

He is currently interested in: 1. Solitons and their applications in optical fibers 2. Integrability and exact solutions 3. Methods of solving nonlinear differential equations 4. Quantum computation 5. Bose-Einstein condensation