Aziz is a professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University—which he chaired from 2016–2021, and the head of MARC Bioscience Research Laboratories in Giza, Egypt. From 2021–2024, he has directed the Microbiology and Immunology Research Programme at the Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt. In 2005, he received his PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of Tennessee, Health Science Center in Memphis, and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, San Diego State University, and UCSD (2008–2013). He collaborates with the Argonne National Laboratory. His research spans microbiology and immunology, genomics of microbial pathogens and phages, and microbiomics. He is a pioneer of pharmacomicrobiomics, a discipline that studies drug-microbiome interactions. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles, a book, nine book sections, and is maintaining two bioinformatics databases. His work has been nationally and internationally acknowledged through awards from TWAS, COMSTECH, and Shoman Awards. He is ranked among the 1% most productive authors in the SCOPUS database (based on c-score).

Amin Ibrahim Shendi is an associate professor in the Department of Polymers and Pigments of the National Research Centre in Cairo, Egypt. She is also the president and founder of the Egyptian Scientific Society of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She obtained her BSc in chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University in Cairo, and her MSc and PhD in organic chemistry (polymer technology and catalysis) at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Her research interests include the synthesis of highly functionalized hyperbranched star polymers and other nano-structured polymeric structures via different synthetic routes, employing polymers in pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems and building materials and manufacturing of nanocomposites from clay or silica/hyperbranched polymers for industrial applications. In recognition of her contributions, she was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service PhD scholarship to pursue her PhD in both Egypt and Germany, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany.

Professor Tawfik is founding director of the Egyptian Center for Theoretical Physics (ECTP), founding director of the World Laboratory for Cosmology And Particle Physics (WLCAPP), and research director at "ICSC-World Laboratory" in Erice, Italy. Professor Tawfik is serving in several committees and panels for education, scientific research, and development. In 1999, He has earned Dr.rer.Nat at Philipps Universität Marburg, and in 2012 Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in “physics and mathematics” at Uzbekistan National University. Tawfik has accomplished successive academic posts at Marburg, Stuttgart, Trier, Bielefeld (Germany), Hiroshima (Japan), MTI, Nile, and Future universities (Egypt). He was elected as a Fellow of the E African Academy of Science (AAS) and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT).