Sameer Al-Dahidi received the B.Sc. degree (with honors – 1st rank) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Hashemite University (Jordan) in 2008, the M.Sc. degree (very good – 1st rank) in Nuclear Energy (Operations Specialty) from Ecole Centrale Paris and Université Paris-Sud 11 (France) in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2016. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Al-Dahidi worked as an Electrical & Instruments Engineer at CCIC and Kharafi National on Oil & Gas and petrochemical mega projects in Kuwait and the UAE.

Dr. Al-Dahidi is currently the Head of the Mechanical and Maintenance Engineering Department (Full Professor) at the School of Applied Technical Sciences, German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan. His research interests include the development of advanced machine learning models and optimization techniques to address complex industrial challenges including applications in renewable energy systems and thermal processes. Focus areas include performance analysis, system optimization, energy efficiency and sustainability, techno-economic evaluation, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS) analysis, and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM).

Dr. Al-Dahidi is an outstanding professor, teaching bachelor and master-level engineering courses both full-time and part-time locally (e.g., Al Hussein Technical University - HTU) and internationally (e.g., The Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt - THWS), with exceptional evaluations from students (>92%). He has supervised and co-supervised >50 Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. theses and dissertations both locally and globally. Dr. Al-Dahidi is the author and co-author of >110 papers on high-quality international journals and proceedings of international conferences, a referee of >20, a guest editor of 6 special issues at high-quality international journals, and a permanent editor of 2 journals. As of July 2025, Dr. Al-Dahidi’s h-index was 29 in Google Scholar, 25 in Scopus, and 23 in ISI Web of Science.

Dr. Al-Dahidi served as the Program Coordinator and Quality Assurance Manager for the EDU-SYRIA EU-funded educational and humanitarian project (valued at €37.6 million) from June 2021 to July 2025.​