The ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award 2013 has been awarded to Mohammad Dhafer Al-Amri, The National Centre for Mathematics and Physics (NCMP),
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for his pioneering research in the field of optical lithography and microscopy, quantum teleportation of multi-qubit systems, and the reversal of weak measurements in optical systems, as well as for his leaderhsip role in establishing a quantum optics research program at KACST, Saudi Arabia under difficult circumstances.