Nidal Hilal is a Global Network Professor at New York University and the Founding Director of NYUAD Water Research Center. He held professorships at the University of Nottingham and Swansea University in the United Kingdom. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Swansea University and the Founding Director of the Centre for Water Advanced Technologies and Environmental Research (CWATER). He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and and an Elected Fellow of both the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Learned Society of Wales. He was awarded the 2020 Menelaus Medal by the Learned Society of Wales for excellence in engineering and technology. In 2005, he was awarded a DSc from the University of Wales and the Kuwait Prize for Applied Science "Water Resources Development". Hilal has been named in the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list by Clarivate.