Shadia J. Ikhmayies had received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the physics department in the University of Jordan in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. in producing CdS/CdTe thin-film solar cells from the same university in 2002. Her research is focused on producing and characterizing semiconductor thin films and thin-film CdS/CdTe solar cells. Besides, she works in characterizing quartz in Jordan for the extraction of silicon for solar cells and characterizing different materials by computation. She is the founder and the editor of the book series “Advances in Material Research and Technology” published by Springer and the editor of several books.