Three of our research scientists have been selected on the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research list of the 2022 Class of Influential Researchers.

We are proud to announce that five of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate.

Prof. Huabin Zhang is exploring ways to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater using a highly-efficient and stable molybdenum-based electrocatalysts.

In the last KAUST Insight story, Prof. Carlos Grande explains to us how design and computer modeling play a key role in developing chemical reactors and new separation processes.

A collaboration with Prof. Javier Ruiz-Martίnez helps a multinational company rethink ways to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions using catalysts.

Prof. Omar Mohammed and KAUST alumnus Jun Yin have achieved impressive light-power conversion by synthesizing a semiconducting material containing tin-based nanoparticles.

Prof. Magnus Rueping and the Research Scientist Jeremy Bau have demonstrated how a molybdenum-based catalyst can play a central role in a process pivotal to the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals.

KCC Faculty Profs. Mani Sarathy and Omar Mohammed have been promoted to the rank of full professors. KAUST acknowledged their burgeoning progress in solar energy and sustainable fuel technologies.

The latest KAUST Discovery story featured the recent work lead by Prof. Javier Ruiz-Martinez. “Unraveling the structure and role of Mn and Ce for NOx reduction in application-relevant catalysts”.

Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Prof. Cafer Yavuz and postdoc Pravin Babar have created a low-cost and highly active electrode that splits water molecules to release oxygen and hydrogen, a potential green fuel

Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis and his team have developed a new catalyst that transforms a mixture of three monomers into diblock dialternating copolymers in one single step.

Layered nanomaterials shine for lossless light-energy conversion.

We are proud to announce that 4 of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list from Clarivate.

The conversion of captured CO2 into fuels and other valuable hydrocarbons could enable a sustainable nonfossil-fuel-based economy.

Energy and Fuels have established an annual recognition for high influential researchers in early and mid-career (EMCRs). The Energy and Fuels Rising Stars intend to celebrate EMCRs "critical roles in driving knowledge discovery and technological advances in the increasingly globalized research landscape".

This recognition aims to support and highlight his scientific research.

The Kroll Medal & Prize is presented for significant contribution that has enhanced the scientific understanding of materials chemistry as applied to the industrial production of inorganic materials.