Qusai Kamal al-Din was born in the city of Mosul on July 29, 1966, and after completing his primary and secondary studies in 1989, he joined the College of Civil Engineering at the University of Mosul, and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1993, then obtained a Master’s degree in 1995, from the same college. He completed his studies outside Iraq and obtained a doctorate in civil engineering with a specialization in environmental engineering from Saint Petersburg University in 1999, and a post-doctoral study in environmental engineering from the University of North Texas in 2009, he held the position of head of the environmental engineering department at the College of Engineering at Mosul University, and the position of Dean of the College Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the University of Mosul, as well as the Dean of the College of Petroleum and Mining Engineering at the University of Mosul, and the President of the University of Mosul from 2019 until now. He is a member of the Iraqi Engineers Syndicate, the Federation of Arab Engineers, the Jordanian Environmental Society, and the Wetland Scientists Society in the United States of America.