Professor Essam Shehab is the Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is also a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University, UK. Professor Shehab has sustained his strong research leadership with world-leading aerospace companies including Airbus and Rolls-Royce by collaborating consistently with both companies over the past 16 years and has generated an impressive over 100 research projects with both companies. He secured £16m research funding in cash from Government grants (UK, EU, KZ and overseas) and industry. Professor Shehab was invited to provide plenary and keynote presentations in international conferences. He generated 326 research publications which have received over 11,500 Citations. His i10-index of 116 and h-index of 29, 40 and 35 by Scopus, Google Scholar and Research Gate respectively. He has successfully completed the supervision of 34 PhD researchers and 132 MSc theses. He acted as the External Examiner for MEng/BEng mechanical and manufacturing engineering programmes at Queen’s University Belfast and Teesside University, Leicester University and University of Greenwich. He also served as the external examiner for over 30 PhD theses at UK, UAE, Singapore, and Ireland universities. Professor Shehab is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE).