Faisal Abdulla AlMarzooqi is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and the deputy director of the Center of Membrane and Advanced Water Technology (CMAT) at Khalifa University. Prior to the merger of Masdar Institute (MI), the Petroleum Institute (PI) and Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) into Khalifa University (KU) in 2017, Faisal was an assistant professor of chemical engineering in Masdar Institute since 2015. Faisal was also a visiting assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at Massachuessetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  from 2016 till 2018, during which he focused on research related to solar desalination. He is an active Editorial Board Member in the Desalination journal by Elsevier since 2020 and was a founding Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering Journal by Elsevier in 2020.

Faisal received his PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering from the joint program at Masdar Institute and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015 for his research on the Interplay of Membrane Fabrication and Nanotechnology in Water Desalination. He obtained his Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2009 for his research on the use of ionic liquids in the determination of surface energies, which led him to receive the Lonza award in the same year. Faisal’s research focuses on membranes and devices fabrication for solar water treatment and energy applications including, desalination, wastewater treatment, valuable metals recovery, hydrogen and batteries.