PhD in mathematics, Arizona State University, USA, 2010 Dr. Ahmed Matar areas of expertise are number theory and arithmetic geometry. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Bahrain, since 2023. He worked as an instructor at Arizona State University (2010-2011). He was awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship - Lille1 University, Sept 2012-Feb 2013. In addition, he was awarded a graduate student research award at Arizona State University in 2010.