Mohammed Ali was born in Syrian Arab Republic and received his B.Sc. Degree in Chemical Engineering with honor from UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE in 2010. His graduation project was titled "Designing a methanol production plant using natural gas as feed stock". The project included the design and simulation of large scale plant.
During his undergraduate studies, Mohammed completed his internship in Petrofac International Company (EPC), Shjarah, and UAE (2008) .He worked as a trainee in process department real in designing real projects related to oil and gas industry.
In August 2010, Mohammed joined the fellowship program at The Petroleum Institute. He is now working on with Dr. Ghada Bassioni on studying the compatibility of commercially available chemical additives to oil well cement applied in ADNOC oilfields.