Short Biography: Dr. Chaham Alalouch is an academic, scholar, chief editor, and architectural engineer with a background in urbanism. He writes and speaks regularly on how to improve people’s quality of life through sustainable and smart design and construction of our buildings and cities. He believes that the built environment is made for people and it should be designed and constructed as such. He is Editor-in-Chief of the refereed and indexed journal “Open House International”, and Associated Editor in other refereed journals. Dr. Chaham’s research, teaching, and services were recognized for excellence. He is the winner of the “Distinguished Research Award 2024” by Sultan Qaboos University, Outstanding Reviewer Award 2021 by Emerald Publishing, UK; the National Research Award 2020 by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation in Oman; the “Distinguished Academician Award” by Sultan Qaboos University 2019; the winner of the Highly Commended Award 2010 by the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, UK; and the winner of MacFarlane Prize 2009 by Heriot-Watt University. His research was featured in Elsevier newsletter, Elsevier Engineering Twitter account, The Australian Architectural Science Association newsletter, the Spanish online magazine “The Smart City Journal”, and the Omani “Scientific Insights” newsletters. Dr. Chaham has published a large number of outputs in the international refereed press including high-impact journals, conferences, books, and a number of technical reports; covering a wide range of topics related to his broad area of interest. He has also published on engineering and architecture design pedagogy. Based on SciVal data for the period 2018-2021, 27.3% of his publications were among the top 10% most cited worldwide, 54.5% among the top 10% most viewed publications worldwide, and 55.6% of his publications were published in the top 10% journals. Dr. Chaham held invited talks and keynote speeches and invited talks at international conferences and events in Spain, Italy, Kuwait, Cyprus, Oman, UK, Turkey, UAE, and Qatar; and many other talks, workshops, and presentations in several international, regional, and local conferences and events. He acts as a reviewer for a range of reputable and high-impact journals, and he reviewed for more than 18 international conferences from China to the UK. Dr. Chaham holds a Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University, UK; and a PG Dip. in architectural design and a Bachelor’s in architectural engineering from the University of Aleppo, Syria. He is currently teaching and researching at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman in the capacity of Associate Professor, having previously researched and taught at universities in the UK and Syria. There, he also worked in several architectural consultancy firms and in two European commission-funded projects.