Amer Kotb received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Electronics from the University of Fayoum in Egypt in 2012 and 2006. respectively.

From 2009 to 2011, he was a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut in the USA under the supervision of Prof. Niloy Dutta. He got the Best Student Award from Connecticut University in 2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor, Vice Head of the Physics Department, and Chair of Students Activities at the Northern Borders University in Saudi Arabia. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor in the GPL Photonics Laboratory at the CIOMP of CAS. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science at Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.

Dr. Amer is the first and corresponding author of two books and 55 international journal papers in all-optical Boolean gates using semiconductor optical amplifiers. These papers have been published in high-impacted journals such as IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Optics and Laser Technology, Optics Letters, Physica Scripta, Optik, Optics Communications, etc. He serves as a reviewer and on editorial boards for a huge number of scientific journals. He also examines many Ph.D. and master theses in many countries, such as India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.

Dr. Amer has got many grants supported by different countries. In 2009. he was a recipient of the full joint scholarship sponsored by the Egyptian Government for two years to conduct his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut. In 2019 and 2020. he got the Talented Young Scientist Programs supported by the Chinese Government. Besides, Amer has been awarded the Prizes of the International Publication almost every year from Fayoum University in Egypt.