Hamdallah was born in Kufr Malik, Ramallah, on March 10, 1954. He received his elementary, middle and high school education at Kufr Malik Preparatory, Ain Yabroud Secondary, and Al-Hashimiya Secondary Schools, respectively. He received his B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Birzeit University, West Bank in 1980, and his M.S. in materials science and a PhD in analytical/inorganic chemistry/archaeometry from Caen University, France in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 through 1997, he worked at the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Fribourg University, Switzerland, first, as post-doctoral fellow and then as senior research scientist and lecturer, where he also received his PD (Privat Docent, which is equivalent to full professorship) in Science and the specialty of Applied Mineralogy/Archaeometry. He then moved to USA to join Arizona State University. He was first a research associate with the Archaeological Research Institute (1997 –1999) before joining the Science & Engineering of Materials PhD Program to obtain another PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, with concentration area in electron microscopy and materials characterization. From September 2000 through December 2008, he had a position of Faculty Research Associate with the CO₂ - Mineral Sequestration Group at the Center for Solid State Science. In January 2009, he was promoted to the Associate Professor of Research in the School of Materials. When the latter was disestablished, he joined the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering as a Senior Research Scientist.  He has been extensively involved in several multidisciplinary research projects. He then joined An-Najah National University first as a visiting professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry and in 2015 he was appointed as professor of Materials Engineering in the Department of Chemical, Energy & Environment, and Materials Engineering. His research and teaching interests crosses several disciplines from analytical chemistry to materials science & engineering, to mineralogy and archaeometry. He has authored or co-authored papers that have been published in renowned journals such as Nature, PNAS, ES&T, among others. Currently his research focuses on CO2 sequestration and CO2-related technologies; sustainable materials and technologies for construction, energy storage, and water desalination; characterization of archaeological materials and knowledge of their extraction and fabrication technologies and the socio-economic and cultural dynamics involved in their fabrication, distribution and use.

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