Prof Olabi is the Director of Sustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Centre at the University of Sharjah “UoS”. For the previous three years, he was the Head of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, before joining UOS, he was the director and founding member of the Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland. Prof Olabi received his M.Eng and Ph.D. from Dublin City University, since 1984 he worked at different national and international institutes such as; National Research Centre-Italy “CNR”, Research Centre of FIAT-Italy “CRF”, Dublin City University “DCU”, Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies “IEET” at UWS, and Aston University.

Prof Olabi is an Academic Expert Reviewer, he acted as member and chairman for a number of accreditation panels.

Prof Olabi has supervised postgraduate research students (40 PhD) to successful completion. He has published large number of peer-reviewed papers concerning on Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems, particularly, hydrogen and Fuel Cell. In the last few years, Prof Olabi has patented 2 innovative projects regarding innovative generation of PEM Fuel Call.

Prof Olabi is the founder of the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection SEEP, www.seepconference.com. He is the Subject Editor of the Elsevier Energy Journal, Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier), Editor of the Reference Module of Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier), Editor in Chief of Renewable Energy section of Energies and board member of a few other journals. Prof Olabi has coordinated different National, EU and International Projects. He has produced different reports to the Irish Gov. regarding: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells and Solar Energy.