Faculty

Jorge Gascon, Ph.D.

Center Director, Professor​​ of Chemical Engineering and Lead of the KAUST Circular Carbon Initiative

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, C1 chemistry, Multifunctional solids, Reactor engineering, Separation processes

Magnus Rueping, Ph.D.

​Associate Director and ​Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: ​Synthetic catalytic methodology, new catalysis concepts

Luigi Cavallo, Ph.D.

​Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: ​Catalysts, organometallic compounds, olefin polymerization, biological systems

Kuo-Wei Huang, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical Science and Associate Vice President for Research

Research Interests: Carbon dioxide utilization, Carbonylation and decarbonylation, Small molecules activation, Kinetic and DFT studies of transition metal and Organocatalysis

Nikolaos Hadjichristidis, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: ​Synthesis of model polymers, Different macromolecular architectures

Osman Bakr, Ph.D.

​​Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Vice Provost for Strategy

Research Interests: Synthesis and assembly of organic-inorganic hybrid materials and nanomaterials of novel optical and electronic properties, Advanced materials, solar cells, optoelectronic devices

Cafer T. Yavuz, Ph.D.

​Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: ​CO2 capture and conversion, Water treatment, Nanocatalysis, Methane storage, Water capture and splitting, Porous polymers

Pedro Castaño, Ph.D.

​Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: ​Chemical engineering, reaction engineering, reactor design, catalysis, bio- and waste-refinery, Catalyst deactivation, zeolites and zeotypes, multiphase reactors, kinetics, microreactors, periodic reactors, spectroscopy, coke formation

Javier Ruiz-Martinez, Ph.D.

​Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Operando spectroscopy, Nanomaterials, C1 chemistry, Selective hydrogenation, Halogen chemistry, Catalyst deactivation, Reaction kinetics

Omar F. Mohammed Abdelsaboor, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical and Material Science

Research Interests: ​Laser spectroscopy, Four-dimentional ultrafast electron microscopy, Nanoscale materials dynamics, Synthesis and characterization of chemical systems, Ultrafast reaction dynamics of photoswitchable materials

Yoji Kobayashi, Ph.D.

​Associate Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: Solid state chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, inorganic material, Reactivity of solids

Huabin Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: operando, water splitting, C1 chemistry

Mani Sarathy, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Comprehensive chemical kinetics, combustion cyberinfrastructure, reaction mechanism reduction, chemistry of multi-scale reacting flows

Carlos A. Grande, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Support

Dongya Zhang

Research Specialist in Prof. Kuo-Wei Huang group

Research Interests: Chemical engineering1

Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari, Ph.D.

R&D Portfolio Manager

Research Interests: Sol-gel chemistry, mesoporous materials, surface organometallic chemistry, N-donors surface ligands, ammoniation process, atomic organization of acid-base bifunctional catalysts, Solid State NMR spectroscopy, DNP SENS, TEM

Youssef Saih, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - Reactors

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, sustainable green energy

Selvedin Telalovic, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - Catalyst Reactor

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, catalysts synthesis, catalysts characterization and testing

Mohammad Babar Moghni Mallick

Senior Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Industrial Gas Processes, GloveBox, High Vacuum Line Research processes, Calibration gases, ICP analysis, Chemical Segregation, Research Projects, Lab Modification projects, Gas Process operations, Technical Trainings

Natalia Morlanes, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - HTP

Research Interests: Organometallics, Photochemistry, Electrochemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, Surface characterization, Water Oxidation, CO2 reduction

Ildar Mukhambetov, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - Process Intensification

Research Interests: ​Industrial catalysts, alumina, Heterogeneous catalysis

Jose Luis Cerrillo Olmo, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer- Industrial Catalysis Process control

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Green Chemistry, Zeolites, pollutant removal, catalysts synthesis, characterization, hydrogenation

Claudia Carraro

Staff Engineer - KCC Safety Officer

Mark Meijerink, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - Operando Characterization

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Advanced catalyst characterization, In situ/operando characterization, In situ transmission electron microscopy, Advanced TEM techniques, Catalyst Synthesis

Beauty Rani Sharma

​Process Technician

Jing Bai

Operations and Administrative Analyst Prof. Bakr and Abdelsaboor groups

Anais Terrien

Research Staff

Research Interests: data analysis, process automation, biochemistry, spectroscopy .

Taimoor Ahmad, Ph.D.

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Perovskite solar cells, perovskite x-ray detectors, perovskite LEDs, encapsulation, flexible perovskite modules and cells scale up via inkjet printing, roll-to-roll, and sheet-to-sheet

Sadeed Sayed

Research Specialist

Research Interests: artificial intelligence, Data Science, Robotics, Signal Processing

Ajitha John

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Molecular interactions, Reaction mechanism, QSAR, DFT, Molecular dynamics

Noah Mohammed

Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Process Engineering, Control systems, Materials Science, Reactor engineering, Heterogeneous catalysis, Computational Materials, Machine learning, Additive manufacturing

Arwa Alahmadi

Technical Specialist in Prof. Gascon group

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Crude Oil, Light Olefins

Cristina Martín Sangüesa

Technical Specialist - Process Engineer- Prof. Gascon

Eganathan Kaliyamoorthy

Technical Specialist

Limin Zheng

Technical Specialist

Hongxing Song

Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Control algorithm, automation, power system

Yaning Huang

Biotech lab assistant Prof. Magnus group

Research Interests: cell, protein

Cheng Yan

​Lab Technician

Tanushree Tanmayee

​ Lab Technician

Weiwei Qu

​Lab Technician

Yingying Yu

Technical Specialist in Prof. Hadjichristidis group

Research Interests: Organic chemistry

Research Scientists

Sagadevan Arunachalam, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, Organic Photochemistry, catalysis, Green Chemistry

Saibal Bhaumik, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Anionic Polymerization, ATRP, Non-covalent H-Bonding, Macromolecular architecture

Konstantinos Ntetsikas, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Anionic Polymerization, Complex Macromolecular Architectures

Mutalifu Abulikemu, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Javeed Mahmood, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Catalyst design and synthesis

Prakash Alagi, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Synthesis of novel and sustainable polymers via Ring Opening Polymerization, Design and development of macromolecular architecture for sustainable polymers using controlled living polymerization technique.

Idoia Hita del Olmo, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Activated carbon, Hydrocarbons, Catalyst deactivation

Shekhar Rajabhau Kulkarni,Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Process Intensification, reactor design, Multiphase Flows, Transport Phenomena

Luis Garzon Tovar, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Nanoporous, materials, Heterogeneous catalysis, crystal design, synthesis and functionalization, crystal structure determination, catalysis

Teng Li, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, C1 chemistry

Sangho Chung, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Solid-state NMR, DNP assisted NMR

Hend Omar Mohamed, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Photo catalyst materials, Nanomaterial, wastewater treatments, Membrane bioreactor, Biocatalyst material, Metal carbides and nitrides, Electrodeposition techniques

Rajesh K. Parsapur, Ph. D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrodesulfurization, membranes, gas separation, Surface Organometallic Catalysis, design of nanostructured mesoporous zeolites, otypes and transition metal oxides

Rafael Canevesi, Ph.D.

research scientist

Research Interests: Gas and liquid adsorption, Process simulation and optimization, CO2 Capture, Hybrid processes

Jean Marcel Ribeiro Gallo, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Materials design, Surface characterization, Sustainability, E-Fuels

Diego Mateo, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, ​Photocatalysis, CO2 Conversion, solar fuels

Salvador Sayas Valero,Ph.D

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, renewable energy, reactor design, Hydrogen production, CO2 utilization, Green Chemistry, Catalyst characterization

Vijaykumar Marakatti, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Intermetallic, Alloy, Nano materials, heterogenous catalysis, Ammonia synthesis, Synthesis

Bholanath Maity, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Computational Catalysis, Visible Light Driven Reactions, Data-driven Approaches

Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: water splitting, redox dynamics, charge transport kinetics, Photo(electro)catalysis

Xinglong Dong, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: catalysis, zeolite, naphtha, olefins, gas separation

Viko Ladelta, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Anionic ring-opening polymerization

Thien Nguyen, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Porous organic materials, Organic Synthesis

Rajesh Kancherla,Ph.D

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Photo-catalysis, Transition metal catalysis

Partha Maity, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Photocatalysis, Photophysics, Ultrafast spectroscopy of nanocrystals

Rafia Ahmad, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: catalysis, Materials Simulation and Modelling, DFT

Mohit Chawla,Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Molecular modeling, Quantum chemical studies of molecular interactions in nucleic acids, Structural studies of functional RNA molecules (Ribosome, Ribozyme and Riboswitch)

Mengmeng Cui, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, process simulation, process optimization

Manoja Kumar Samantaray, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Alkane metathesis, Alkene metathesis, Carbene, Carbyne

Anastasiya Bavykina, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Materials chemistry, Porous polymers, Heterogeneous catalysis

Walid AL Maksoud, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, SOMC, Metathesis Reaction, hydrogenation

Jeremy Bau, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Nanomaterials synthesis, photoelectrochemistry, solar fuels

Theo Piechota Goncalves, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Density-functional theory, ab initio calculations, reaction mechanisms, transition state theory, organometallic chemistry homogeneous catalysis, diradicals, aromatic hydrocarbon, supercomputing

Zhen Cao, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Density Functional Theory (DFT), Water Splitting Catalysis, QM/MM Simulation, biological systems

Postdoctoral Fellows

Anton Makarov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: methodology, catalysis, reaction mechanisms, domino-reactions, multicomponent reactions

Miriam Escarlet Díaz Galicia, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Protein biochemistry, molecular biology, Protein Engineering, CRISPR-Cas, biosensors, synthetic biology

Juan David Trueba, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Waste valorisation, Process Intensification, Refinery descarbonisation, Hydrogen

Lu Song, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: zeolite, catalysis

Anurag Singh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: catalysis, C-H Functionalization, Photochemistry

Jifeng Wu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Porous materials, supercapacitors, novel superconductors

Yesid Murillo Acevedi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: adsorption, Carbonaceous Material, Calorimetry, photocatalysis .

Stepan Vorotilo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Combustion synthesis, 2D nanoceramics, nanopowders, catalysis

Catalin-Constantin Anghel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, photovoltaics, Supramolecular chemistry, catalysis, luminescence

Raghda Makarem, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electron Microscopy, EDX, EELS

Daniil Nazimov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: supported catalysts, Hydrocarbon processing

Muhammad Bilal Asif, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, membrane technology, Water treatment, Desalination, Environmental Chemistry

Deshen Kong, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Mechanochemistry

Maksim Skorotetskii, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: luminescent Materials, Organic chemistry, electronics and photonics

Arnab Dey, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: photocatalysis ., Electrocatalysis, Mechanochemical Synthesis

Ziyun Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Homogeneous catalysts

Xueli Yao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: C-H Activation, Catalyst Synthesis, Catalyst deactivation, Electrocatalysis

Xingzhu Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials modeling, Electrochemistry, Gas catalysis

Raza Ullah Shah Bacha, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials modeling, Small molecules activation

Shrikant Nikam, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Polymerization, Functionalized polymers, Chiral polymers, Membrane separation, PVDF

Tiannyu Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Javier Patarroyo, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Noble metal nanoparticles, Plasmonic nanoparticles, catalysis, Electron Microscopy, Nanomaterials

Bedil Saidzhonov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tingting Yuan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal catalysis, photocatalysis ., Electrocatalysis

Lijie Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Xinyuan Zhang, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskite, Crystal, X-ray

Sudheesh Kumar Veeranmaril, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Extended X-ray, Absorption Fine Structure(EXAFS), Electrocatalysis, Operando XAS reactor designing for thermo/electrocatalysis (MEA cell), In situ TEM, XPS

Gentoku Takasao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Machine learning, DFT-calculation, Materials modeling, In-silico, Materials modelling, Structure determination, Materials informatics

Yang Li, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis

Xuan Gong, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: heterogenous catalysis, Porous materials, CO2 Hydrogenation, MTH

Giiaz Bekmukhamedov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, spectroscopy, Materials Science, supported catalysts

Mohammad Asif, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, Process Intensification, Catalytic foams, Additive manufacturing, Heat transfer.

Bo Li, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photocatalysis1, Electrocatalysis, ball milling, artificial intelligence

Chengyang Feng, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sayan Dutta, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Homogeneous Catalysis, DFT, photocacalysis

Kuntal Pal, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: photocatalysis ., Electrocatalysis

Jiyuan Fan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, catalysis design, hydrotreating

Leandro Duarte de Almeida, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Homogeneous Catalysis, nanocatalysts, photocatalysis .

Shouwei Zuo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: XAFS, Perovskite, solar, cell, catalysis

Huawei Huang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalytic water splitting, CO2 reduction

Bin Chang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, carbon dioxide reduction, nitrogen fixation, reaction mechanism analysis

Zhipeng Wu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Fuel cells, water electrolyzer, Density Functional Theory (DFT)

Umair Hassan Bhatti, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 Conversion, Process Modeling, CO2 Capture

Jose Luis Santos, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrogen production, Bio Oil refining, Biomass valorization, Material synthesis and characterization.

Juan Manuel Colom, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Chemical engineering1, Combustion, Heterogeneous catalysis, Kinetic modeling

Rushana Khairova, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials Science, Synthesis, Organic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Material Characterization

Nikolaos Patelis, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Vitrimers, ​Anionic Polymerization, polymer synthesis ..

Naveen Malenahalli Halappa, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal nanoclusters, Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, CO2 reduction

Liang Yi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: photocatalysis ., cross-coupling, Nickel.

Dominik Renn, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Biotechnology, Rational Protein Design, Biocatalysis, X-Ray Crystallography, Cryo-EM, mass spectrometry, Unnatural amino acids

Ajit Prabhakar Kale, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, C-H Activation

Fernanda Tavares, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Chemical engineering, Catalytic Reactions, Heterogeneous catalysts

Yadagiri Rachuri, Ph.D.

​​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: metal-organic frameworks, coordination polymers, covalent organic frameworks, porous organic polymer, pincer complexes, Heterogeneous catalysis

Chunwei Dong, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Raghu Vamsy Maligal Ganesh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanomaterial, Heterogeneous catalysis, Bimetallic and Intermetallic catalysts

Alejandra Rendón Patiño, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electron Microscopy, Heterogeneous catalysis, Green Chemistry, Material synthesis

Hongwei Zhu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskites, solar cells

Xin Song, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: X-ray Detection, Scintillant, perovskite single crystal

Kathiravan Murugesan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photochemistry, C-H Activation, Heterogeneous and homogenous catalysts, synthetic methodology

Zhonghua Xue, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: inorganic material, catalysis

Wasim Mir, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photophysics, Doping, Thermoelectrics, Transport, Phototransport, Quantum dots, Colloidal nanocrystals

Vinoth Ramalingam, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Nanomaterial Synthesis, Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion Applications

Vijay Kumar Velisoju, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Biomass and CO2 Valorisation, In situ Spectroscopy

Swechchha Pandey, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Metal catalyzed transformation, Electrocatalysis, Organocatalysis, Surface Organometallic Catalysis

Seokjin Kim, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Porous material, catalysis, Hydrogen

Sathish Kumar Gadde, Ph.D

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​C-H bond activation, Homogeneous Catalysis, ​Photocatalysis, Iodonium salts

Sarah Komaty Zaarour, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Zeolites, Heterogeneous catalysis, characterization, NH3-SCR of NOx

Rounak Naphade, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Interests in Hybrid perovskites, photo-voltaic and Optoelectronics, catalysis

Rohit K. Rai, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, Non-noble metals, hydrogenation, Ammonia synthesis, Hydroformylation, Oxidation reaction

Priyanka Chakraborty, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Pincer complex, Single Crystal XRD, Homogenous Catalysis

Pravin Babar, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Energy conversion and storage , Material Characterization

Luis Gutierrez Arzaluz, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Time-resolved Laser Spectroscopy, Micro-PL, Single-Particle Spectroscopy

Moussa O. Zaarour, Ph.D.

​​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Zeolites, Catalyst design, Heterogeneous catalysis, spectroscopy

Khursand Yorov , Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials Science, Nanoparticle Synthesis, Inorganic Chemistry, Material Characterization

Hao Huang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalyst, photoelectrochemical application

Juan Carlos Navarro de Miguel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, metal supported catalysts, CO2 Valorization, Reaction kinetics, Operando spectroscopy, TEM

Peng Yuan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal, Nanocluster

Indranil Dutta, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Bifunctionality, Catalyst design, Small molecule activation, Hydrogen economy

Haifeng Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Electrochemistry, Reductive Cross Coupling, Nickel dual catalysis

Delong Han, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Materials modeling

Bhagyashree Kulkarni, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Anionic Polymerization, Polymeric nanoassemblies, Supramolecular architectures

Mingtao Zhou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: RAFT, ATRP

Jiaqi Jia, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Metal catalysis, Enantioselectivity

Stefan A. Nastase, Ph.D.

Postodoctoral Fellow

Jiaxi Xu, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organocatalysis, Controlled/living polymerizations, Hydrogen bonding

Li Yang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organometallic chemistry, Pincer complexes synthesis and catalysis, hydrogenation and small molecule activation

Qingpeng Cheng, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Students

Jorge Samuel Leon Mahdaleno

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Modelling

Kseniia Kosolapova

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Perovskites, Optics, photonics

Kiruthika Jayaseelan

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Methanol to Aromatics, Catalysis, Reaction Engineering

Dina Alsaadi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 Conversion

Hange Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: zeolite, Catalytic Hydrogenation, Gas Purification

Kseniia Vorotilo

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Quantum dots, Nanomaterials, SHS, Microscopy

Marina Chernova

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Selective hydrogenation

Akash Singh

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous, Electrocatalysis, photocatalysis .

Polina Tolstova

Ph.D. Student

Xinhuilan Wang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, Porous material, MOFs, photothermal catalysis

Wejdan Anbari

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Photochemistry, sustainable development, theoretical DFT simulation

Aidana Gimnkhan

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic Chemistry Catalysis, Organic Synthesis

Naydu Paola Zambrano Urrutia

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Crude to Chemicals, Waste upgrading, Analytical Chemistry

Amir I. Gizatullin

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, structure

Renqian Zhou

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: solar cell, Perovskite

Vinicius Luis dos Santos

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reactor design, Catalyst, 3D Printing, adsorption, Parametric design

Yuanfu Ren

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Single-atom and nanocluster catalysts, Nanomaterials, Electrocatalysis

Bogdan Orlioglo

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Solid-state, materials, catalysis, Lasers, Crystallography, Diffraction, Python 3

Marcell Toth

Ph.D. Student

Mohammed Albuali

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 utilization, CO2 Conversion, catalysis

Tiziana Ricciardelli

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Machine learning

Shahad Sulaimani

​Ph.D. Student

Angel Sousa

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Carbon materials, MOFs, photo-thermal catalysis, solar fuels

Ahmed Alamer

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Process Technology, Carbon Neutrality, Circular Carbon, Plastics Pyrolysis, CO2 Mitigation, Crude to Chemicals, energy & sustainability

Kai Qi

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: 2D material, epitaxy growth, CVD, lithium-io battery

Kamila Almagambetova

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic chemistry

Cristina Queiros da Silva

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Material Science, Nanotechnology, characterization, NH3-SCR of NOx, Chemical Synthesis

Yuli Peng

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Biocatalysis, Extremophiles, extremozymes, Biotechnology

Claudia Filosa

PhD Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrocarbons, MTH, MTO, Zeolites

Miao Hu

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: photocatalyst

Haodi Ran

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskite, solar, cells

Bashir Hasanov

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskite, Nanomaterials

Maksim Zakharzhevskii

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: metal-organic frameworks, Crystal structure, photocatalysis .

Samiya Khaliq

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, semiconductor, VOSviewer, quantum emitters

Yuvraj Vaishnav

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Ammonia synthesis, CO2 Hydrogenation

Yunzhi Wang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Catalyst

Razan Mal

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Homogenous Catalysis, pincer complexes, manganese

Noor A. Merdad

​Ph.D. Student

Lujain Alrais

​Ph.D. Student

Khulud Almasabi

​Ph.D. Student

Jurjen O. Cazemier

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, renewable chemicals

Isa Al Aslani

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Fluid catalytic Cracking, Crude Oil, Hydrodynamics, reactor design, Equations of state

Genrikh Shterk

​Ph. D. Student

Research Interests: Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, surface science, catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Material Characterization, Instrumentals, XPS, STM, TEM/STEM, in and ex-situ, operando

Fatimah Aldakheel

​Ph.D. Student

Alice Nanni

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Transition metal catalysis, photocacalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, Electrocatalysis

Yongyi Hu

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​DFT (density functional theory)

Talal Aldugman

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, Reaction kinetics, Reactor Modelling, CFD

Orkhan Sayidov

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 utilization, Reactor engineering, reactor design, biofuels, Bio-process modelling and simulation, Separation processes, heterogenous catalysis, Catalyst design

Omar Abed

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Perovskites, CO2 utilization, High throughput testing

Nasser Alobaid

Ph.D. Student

Moyu Yi

MS/Ph.D. student

Research Interests: catalysis

Bingyao Shao

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, photovoltaic materials

Ekaterina Toshcheva

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, DFT, Materials modeling, simulation

Mohammed Alotaibi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, solar cells, Nanomaterial

Mohammad Misbahur Rahman

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Small molecule activation

Feng Xie

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Porous material, separation, catalysis, Electron Microscopy

Mohamad Abou Daher

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Chemical Kinetics , Clean Fuels

Xueqin Bai

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis

Layal F. Yaacoub

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, SOMC, pincer complexes, Formic acid dehydrogenation

Yan Wang

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Nanoparticles, Catalyst design, Porous materials, Carbon based materials

Serik Zhumagazy

Ph.D. Student

Nursaya Zhumabay

Ph.D. Student

Nibras Hijazi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, reactor design, Heterogeneous catalysis

Salman Alsharif

Ph.D. Student

Polina Lavrik

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics, spectroscopy, TEM

Faisal F. Alahmadi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, catalysis, simulation

Prashant Shinde

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, Electro-organic Synthesis, Heterogeneous catalyst, Green Chemistry

Saidkhodzha Nematulloev

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Copper Nanocluster, Crystallization, Photophysics, catalysis

Shatha bin Dawood

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, pincer complexes

Ali Alkadhem

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Catalyst Modeling, Fluid Computational Dynamics

Natalia Realpe

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reactor design, process optimization, CFD, Transport Phenomena, Bio and Waste Refinery

Daria Poloneeva

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Materials Science, gas separation, Photophysics

Gontzal Lezcano

​Ph.D. Student

Il Son Khan

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, MOFs

Master Students

Wejdan Takhah

PGdip student

Azra Filzaira Khairil Azizi

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry

Sophie Ngo

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis

Ali Almuhanna

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrocracking, MOFs, photocatalysis ., Zeolites, Oil to chemicals, CO2 to chemicals,, catalysts design

Ali Mohammed Althunayan

Master Student

Safa Alkhamis

Master Student

Research Interests: Polycaprolactone

Abdulilah S. Alofi

Master Student

Nikita Kudriavykh

Master Student

Research Interests: adsorption, Solid-gas interactions, Heterogeneous catalysis, Inverse Gas Chromatography, MAX phases

Mohammad Ali

Master Student

Research Interests: Process Modeling, reaction engineering

Sawsan Daws

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, optoelectric and laser sensing technologies, solar cells, flexible electronics, materials' characterization

Lujain Bashihab

​Master Student

Research Interests: Sustainable polymers, Ring - opening polymerization, Anionic, Polymerization, Homogeneous Catalysis, computational modelling

Sohrab Askarli

​MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Chemical Thermodynamic, Chemical Reaction Engineering, CFD

Pewee Datoo Kolubah

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Waste upgrading, CO2 Valorization, Electrocatalysis

Ameen K. Arkanji

MS/Ph.D. Student

Mohammad Awwad

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Catalyst design, Hydrocracking, Oil to chemicals

Nicoleta Gutu

Master Student

Research Interests: biochemistry, molecular biology, Protein Biosynthesis, Metabolism

Jose Ignacio Bielma Velasco

Master Student

Research Interests: MZBR, Crude to Chemicals, Reactor Hydrodynamics and Simulation

Kenia Moreno Martinez

Master Student

Research Interests: Hydroprocessing, PFO

Guvanch B. Nuriyev

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: PVDF

Jiayi Wang

Master Student

Research Interests: LED

Lidia Karpova

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis

Mohammed Babkoor

​Master Student

Nina Tsereshko

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, desilication, Solid-state NMR

Pengfei Zhang

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ROP, DFT, Polymerization

Ruben Medina Flores

​Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Reactor Modelling, simulation, Optimization

Ammar Alamoudi

​Master Student

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Mingming Chou

Business ​​Manager

Marwa Ani

Business Administrator

Longlong Zhai

Business Administrator

Li Wang

Business Administrator

Madhumita Sahoo Maity

Administrative Assistant for Cavallo group