Shadia J. Ikhmayies received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Physics Department in the University of Jordan in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. focusing on producing CdS/CdTe thin-film solar cells from the same university in 2002. Her research interests are on producing and characterizing semiconductor thin films and thin-film CdS/CdTe solar cells. Besides, she works in characterizing quartz in Jordan for the extraction of silicon for solar cells and characterizing different materials by computation. She is Member of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials society (TMS).