Emirati astronaut.

He is an academic researcher and astronaut at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre.

He and his colleague Hazza Al Mansouri are considered the first two Emiratis to join a mission aboard the International Space Station, as they were chosen in 2018 to carry out scientific missions on the same station in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Al Neyadi went into space aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor on March 2, 2023, and participated in an extravehicular activity mission that included a spacewalk on April 28, 2023, making him the first Arab to participate in such an activity.

He returned to Earth accompanied by members of the “Crew-6” crew on September 4, 2023 after performing a mission on the International Space Station that lasted 6 months, the longest space mission in Arab history.

He served as a network security engineer in the UAE Armed Forces, and also worked as an information security researcher. His 10 years of experience in network security engineering qualified him to participate in official missions to more than 20 countries around the world.

He won the Griffith University Award for Distinguished Performance in 2008, and the Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum Award for Academic Achievement in 2017.

He holds a doctorate in information technology in 2016 from Griffith University in Australia, a master’s degree in information and network security from the same university, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom.