Professor Magdy EL-Hagary joined Helwan University in 1988 as a demonstrator in the Physics Department. He received M.Sc. in Physics (1993) from Helwan University. and a Ph.D. in physics from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria (2000). He was promoted to associate professor in 2005 and to professor in 2011. In 2014, he was elected as the chair of the Department of Physics, and in 2022 he was appointed Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research. Professor EL-Hagary was a postdoctoral fellow at the Vienna University of Technology (2000-2005), a visiting professor at Max Plank Institute for the intelligent system, Stuttgart, Germany (2012), and Mohamed VI University, Morocco (2019). His area of specialty is the physics of nanomaterials. He has published more than 90 scientific research articles in high-ranking international journals and attended more than 40 international conferences around the world. He managed (PI) several funded projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He is a reviewer for ISI international journals, funded projects, scientific thesis, scientific awards, and applicants for the Fulbright Scholar Program, etc. He was awarded the Loschmit Prize from the Austrian Society of Physics and Chemistry, (2000). Professor  EL-Hagary has been selected as a member of committees in the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology and the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities and is a member of the Editorial Board of some International Journals. Since June 2023, In June 2023 Professor  EL- Hagary has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science, at Helwan University.