Professor Shaaban Khalil is one of the most prominent High Energy Physicists in the Middle East. He is well known for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of possible new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. He has been the founding director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at Zewail City of Science and Technology in Egypt, since 2012. Prof. Khalil has published more than 300 scientific papers in renowned scientific journals. His work enabled him to earn a D.Sc. degree in 2006. His research has been widely recognised, and he has received several national and international awards. Prof. Khalil has been a visiting professor at the University of Southampton since 2011. He is the president of the Arab Physical Society and the founding team leader of the Egyptian particle physics group at the CMS experiment at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.