Mohammed Salha completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Research respectively, both at Queen Mary University of London. His research thesis titled "Atomistic role of Aluminium in cements" was a computational project supervised by Dr Greg Chass. Having arrived in Rome, he commences his PhD work under supervision of Prof Enrico Bodo and will focus on characterisation of materials through reductionist approaches (ab initio MD, Quantum molecular Cluster, AIM analysis).