Abdullah Almethen is a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. He is a member of two groups, the Network and Distributed Computing Group and the Algorithms, Complexity Theory and Optimisation Group, at the Department of Computer Science. He is working under the supervision of Prof. Igor Potapov and Dr. Othon Michail. His research focuses on designing efficient transformations and reconfiguration algorithms for Programmable Matter; in particular, investigating the linear-strength pushing mechanism of modules in static environments. He has a publication in ALGOSENSORS in the area of Programmable Matter. Before that, he received a bachelor’s degree and an MSc, both in Computer Science, from Qassim University and East Stroudsburg University, respectively.