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

Vincent Tung, Ph.D.

​Associate Professor of Material Science and Engineering

Research Interests: ​2D Soft Active Materials (SAMs), Three Dimensionality In 2D SAMs, High Throughput Nanoprocessing of Printable Hybrid Photovoltaics

Yu Han, Ph.D.

​​​Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: Synthesis of nanoporous and nanostructured materials, resolution of their structures and the development of novel applications for these materials in catalysis, separation, adsorption, sensing and lasers

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

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

Sultan Alsalman

Process Specialist in Prof. Gascon group

Research Interests: Process Improvement and Optimization, reactor design, Process Control

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

Javeed Mahmood

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Catalyst design and synthesis

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

Ram Karan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Sustainability, Extremophiles, halophiles, thermophiles, psychrophiles, extremozymes, bioengineering, gas vesicle nanoparticles, vaccines

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

Prakash Alagi

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.

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

Mutalifu Abulikemu

Research Scientist

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

Shao-Chi Lee, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Nickel Catalysis

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

Saibal Bhaumik, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

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

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

Muralirajan Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, Photo-redox reactions, C-H activation reactions

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

Konstantinos Ntetsikas, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Anionic Polymerization, Complex Macromolecular Architectures

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

Chen Zhu, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Transition metal catalysis, ​Photocatalysis, eletrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, DFT-calculation, wavefunction analysis

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

Idoia Hita del Olmo, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

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

Postdoctoral Fellows

Ziyun Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Homogeneous catalysts

Maksim Skorotetskii

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Muhammad Bilal Asif

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

Deshen Kong

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Mechanochemistry

Shrikant Nikam, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Shashank Sakleshpur Nagaraja, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Detailed mechanism development, Application of AI to fuel design, Sustainable Energy Technologies

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

Diego Zapater Bes, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Reactor technologies, Heterogeneous catalysis, oxygenates to hydrocarbons, Zeolites, eotypes

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

Fazal Raziq, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Advanced Materials Synthesis, Solar fuels production

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

Sagadevan Arunachalam, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

Karthik Peramaiya, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photoelectrochemical, N2 reduction

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

Hong Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap, Ph.D

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: hydrogenation, CO2 utilization, Transition Metal Catalyzed Reaction, Green Chemistry

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

Marina Chernova

Ph.D. Student

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

Muhammad Naufal Lintangpradipto

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: perovskite single crystal, polycrystalline perovskite, solar cell, AFM-raman spectroscopy

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

Liliana Panarone

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Catalyst deactivation and carbon nanotubes synthesis

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

Quaid Johar Virpurwala

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, Microkinetic Modelling, Activation & Deactivation of Catalyst

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

Azimet Karluk

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, X-ray Detector, Scintillator

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

Nikita Kolobov

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Photocatalysis

Abdullah Dakhil

Ph.D. Student

Master Students

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

Amer Alabd

Master Student

Khalid Alahmadi

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

Abdulelah Qahtan

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, spectroscopy

Mohammad Al Rebh

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, kinetics

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

Yi-Cing Li

Business Administrator

Allison Ramirez

Communication Specialist

Jie Li

Administrative Staff

Madhumita Sahoo Maity

Administrative Assistant for Cavallo group