Alaa Zaghloul is a Research Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry, National Research Centre in Cairo for more than 32 years. According to his professional experience, he is now Vice Chairman of the National Committee for Environmental Problems in Egypt, Academy of scientific research and Technology (ASRT) and Member of the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Professors and Associate Professors, NRC. Dr Zaghloul holds his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from El-Azhar University in 1982 and 1994 respectively, and Ph. D. from of Ain Shams University (Egypt) in 1998.
He has a wide experience in chemistry of soil reactions through the kinetic of soil chemical processes; especially that related with potential toxic elements PTEs under varied conditions such as temperature regime. In 2003 Dr Zaghloul invented instrument called Electrical Stirred Flow Unit (ESFU), helps in understanding kinetic reactions under different conditions (available online).
Alaa Zaghloul work’s focused on the effect of clay minerals type, iron, aluminum, and manganese oxides, and humic substances on different reactions take place in soil system. His work is also heavily concerned with the use of kinetic approach to elucidate mechanisms of metal retention and release on clay surfaces. His works also heavily related with remediation of heavy metals in contaminated soils using the application of recent and economical soil amendments available under local conditions, thus reducing the bioavailability of such pollutants under different reaction conditions and has national and international projects heavily concerned with environmental pollution.
Dr Zaghloul has published over a sixty professional articles and chapter of book in the field of soil chemistry and plant nutrition and participates in many national and international congresses.