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
Associate Director and Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interests: Synthetic catalytic methodology, new catalysis concepts
Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interests: Catalysts, organometallic compounds, olefin polymerization, biological systems
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
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interests: Synthesis of model polymers, Different macromolecular architectures
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
Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interests: CO2 capture and conversion, Water treatment, Nanocatalysis, Methane storage, Water capture and splitting, Porous polymers
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
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Operando spectroscopy, Nanomaterials, C1 chemistry, Selective hydrogenation, Halogen chemistry, Catalyst deactivation, Reaction kinetics
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
Associate Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interests: Solid state chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, inorganic material, Reactivity of solids
Assistant Professor of Chemical Science
Research Interests: operando, water splitting, C1 chemistry
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Comprehensive chemical kinetics, combustion cyberinfrastructure, reaction mechanism reduction, chemistry of multi-scale reacting flows
Research Specialist in Prof. Kuo-Wei Huang group
Research Interests: Chemical engineering1
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
Staff Engineer - Reactors
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, sustainable green energy
Staff Engineer - Catalyst Reactor
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, catalysts synthesis, catalysts characterization and testing
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
Staff Engineer - HTP
Research Interests: Organometallics, Photochemistry, Electrochemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, Surface characterization, Water Oxidation, CO2 reduction
Staff Engineer - Process Intensification
Research Interests: Industrial catalysts, alumina, Heterogeneous catalysis
Staff Engineer- Industrial Catalysis Process control
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Green Chemistry, Zeolites, pollutant removal, catalysts synthesis, characterization, hydrogenation
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
Research Staff
Research Interests: data analysis, process automation, biochemistry, spectroscopy .
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
Research Specialist
Research Interests: artificial intelligence, Data Science, Robotics, Signal Processing
Research Specialist
Research Interests: Molecular interactions, Reaction mechanism, QSAR, DFT, Molecular dynamics
Technical Specialist
Research Interests: Process Engineering, Control systems, Materials Science, Reactor engineering, Heterogeneous catalysis, Computational Materials, Machine learning, Additive manufacturing
Technical Specialist in Prof. Gascon group
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Crude Oil, Light Olefins
Technical Specialist in Prof. Hadjichristidis group
Research Interests: Organic chemistry
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Anionic Polymerization, ATRP, Non-covalent H-Bonding, Macromolecular architecture
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Anionic Polymerization, Complex Macromolecular Architectures
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.
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Activated carbon, Hydrocarbons, Catalyst deactivation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Process Intensification, reactor design, Multiphase Flows, Transport Phenomena
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Nanoporous, materials, Heterogeneous catalysis, crystal design, synthesis and functionalization, crystal structure determination, catalysis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, C1 chemistry
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Solid-state NMR, DNP assisted NMR
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Photo catalyst materials, Nanomaterial, wastewater treatments, Membrane bioreactor, Biocatalyst material, Metal carbides and nitrides, Electrodeposition techniques
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrodesulfurization, membranes, gas separation, Surface Organometallic Catalysis, design of nanostructured mesoporous zeolites, otypes and transition metal oxides
research scientist
Research Interests: Gas and liquid adsorption, Process simulation and optimization, CO2 Capture, Hybrid processes
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Materials design, Surface characterization, Sustainability, E-Fuels
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Photocatalysis, CO2 Conversion, solar fuels
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, renewable energy, reactor design, Hydrogen production, CO2 utilization, Green Chemistry, Catalyst characterization
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Intermetallic, Alloy, Nano materials, heterogenous catalysis, Ammonia synthesis, Synthesis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Computational Catalysis, Visible Light Driven Reactions, Data-driven Approaches
Research Scientist
Research Interests: water splitting, redox dynamics, charge transport kinetics, Photo(electro)catalysis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: catalysis, zeolite, naphtha, olefins, gas separation
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Porous organic materials, Organic Synthesis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Photo-catalysis, Transition metal catalysis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Photocatalysis, Photophysics, Ultrafast spectroscopy of nanocrystals
Research Scientist
Research Interests: catalysis, Materials Simulation and Modelling, DFT
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)
Research Scientist
Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, process simulation, process optimization
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Alkane metathesis, Alkene metathesis, Carbene, Carbyne
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Materials chemistry, Porous polymers, Heterogeneous catalysis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, SOMC, Metathesis Reaction, hydrogenation
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Nanomaterials synthesis, photoelectrochemistry, solar fuels
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Density-functional theory, ab initio calculations, reaction mechanisms, transition state theory, organometallic chemistry homogeneous catalysis, diradicals, aromatic hydrocarbon, supercomputing
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Density Functional Theory (DFT), Water Splitting Catalysis, QM/MM Simulation, biological systems
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: catalysis, C-H Functionalization, Photochemistry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Porous materials, supercapacitors, novel superconductors
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: adsorption, Carbonaceous Material, Calorimetry, photocatalysis .
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Combustion synthesis, 2D nanoceramics, nanopowders, catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, photovoltaics, Supramolecular chemistry, catalysis, luminescence
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: supported catalysts, Hydrocarbon processing
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Nickel Catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, membrane technology, Water treatment, Desalination, Environmental Chemistry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: luminescent Materials, Organic chemistry, electronics and photonics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: photocatalysis ., Electrocatalysis, Mechanochemical Synthesis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: C-H Activation, Catalyst Synthesis, Catalyst deactivation, Electrocatalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Materials modeling, Electrochemistry, Gas catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Materials modeling, Small molecules activation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Polymerization, Functionalized polymers, Chiral polymers, Membrane separation, PVDF
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Detailed mechanism development, Application of AI to fuel design, Sustainable Energy Technologies
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Noble metal nanoparticles, Plasmonic nanoparticles, catalysis, Electron Microscopy, Nanomaterials
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Metal catalysis, photocatalysis ., Electrocatalysis
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
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Machine learning, DFT-calculation, Materials modeling, In-silico, Materials modelling, Structure determination, Materials informatics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: heterogenous catalysis, Porous materials, CO2 Hydrogenation, MTH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, spectroscopy, Materials Science, supported catalysts
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, Process Intensification, Catalytic foams, Additive manufacturing, Heat transfer.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photocatalysis1, Electrocatalysis, ball milling, artificial intelligence
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Reactor technologies, Heterogeneous catalysis, oxygenates to hydrocarbons, Zeolites, eotypes
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Homogeneous Catalysis, DFT, photocacalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, catalysis design, hydrotreating
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Homogeneous Catalysis, nanocatalysts, photocatalysis .
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Electrocatalytic water splitting, CO2 reduction
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, carbon dioxide reduction, nitrogen fixation, reaction mechanism analysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Fuel cells, water electrolyzer, Density Functional Theory (DFT)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 Conversion, Process Modeling, CO2 Capture
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrogen production, Bio Oil refining, Biomass valorization, Material synthesis and characterization.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Chemical engineering1, Combustion, Heterogeneous catalysis, Kinetic modeling
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Materials Science, Synthesis, Organic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Material Characterization
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Vitrimers, Anionic Polymerization, polymer synthesis ..
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Metal nanoclusters, Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, CO2 reduction
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Biotechnology, Rational Protein Design, Biocatalysis, X-Ray Crystallography, Cryo-EM, mass spectrometry, Unnatural amino acids
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Advanced Materials Synthesis, Solar fuels production
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, C-H Activation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Chemical engineering, Catalytic Reactions, Heterogeneous catalysts
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: metal-organic frameworks, coordination polymers, covalent organic frameworks, porous organic polymer, pincer complexes, Heterogeneous catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Nanomaterial, Heterogeneous catalysis, Bimetallic and Intermetallic catalysts
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Electron Microscopy, Heterogeneous catalysis, Green Chemistry, Material synthesis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: X-ray Detection, Scintillant, perovskite single crystal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photochemistry, C-H Activation, Heterogeneous and homogenous catalysts, synthetic methodology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photophysics, Doping, Thermoelectrics, Transport, Phototransport, Quantum dots, Colloidal nanocrystals
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: 2D Materials, Nanomaterial Synthesis, Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion Applications
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Biomass and CO2 Valorisation, In situ Spectroscopy
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Metal catalyzed transformation, Electrocatalysis, Organocatalysis, Surface Organometallic Catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: C-H bond activation, Homogeneous Catalysis, Photocatalysis, Iodonium salts
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Zeolites, Heterogeneous catalysis, characterization, NH3-SCR of NOx
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, Organic Photochemistry, catalysis, Green Chemistry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Interests in Hybrid perovskites, photo-voltaic and Optoelectronics, catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, Non-noble metals, hydrogenation, Ammonia synthesis, Hydroformylation, Oxidation reaction
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Pincer complex, Single Crystal XRD, Homogenous Catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Energy conversion and storage , Material Characterization
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Time-resolved Laser Spectroscopy, Micro-PL, Single-Particle Spectroscopy
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Zeolites, Catalyst design, Heterogeneous catalysis, spectroscopy
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Materials Science, Nanoparticle Synthesis, Inorganic Chemistry, Material Characterization
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photoelectrochemical, N2 reduction
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalyst, photoelectrochemical application
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, metal supported catalysts, CO2 Valorization, Reaction kinetics, Operando spectroscopy, TEM
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Bifunctionality, Catalyst design, Small molecule activation, Hydrogen economy
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Electrochemistry, Reductive Cross Coupling, Nickel dual catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Anionic Polymerization, Polymeric nanoassemblies, Supramolecular architectures
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Metal catalysis, Enantioselectivity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Organocatalysis, Controlled/living polymerizations, Hydrogen bonding
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Organometallic chemistry, Pincer complexes synthesis and catalysis, hydrogenation and small molecule activation
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Modelling
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Perovskites, Optics, photonics
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Methanol to Aromatics, Catalysis, Reaction Engineering
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Quantum dots, Nanomaterials, SHS, Microscopy
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, Porous material, MOFs, photothermal catalysis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Photochemistry, sustainable development, theoretical DFT simulation
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Crude to Chemicals, Waste upgrading, Analytical Chemistry
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Organic chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, structure
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: reactor design, Catalyst, 3D Printing, adsorption, Parametric design
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Single-atom and nanocluster catalysts, Nanomaterials, Electrocatalysis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Solid-state, materials, catalysis, Lasers, Crystallography, Diffraction, Python 3
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: perovskite single crystal, polycrystalline perovskite, solar cell, AFM-raman spectroscopy
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Carbon materials, MOFs, photo-thermal catalysis, solar fuels
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Chemical Process Technology, Carbon Neutrality, Circular Carbon, Plastics Pyrolysis, CO2 Mitigation, Crude to Chemicals, energy & sustainability
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Material Science, Nanotechnology, characterization, NH3-SCR of NOx, Chemical Synthesis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Biocatalysis, Extremophiles, extremozymes, Biotechnology
PhD Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrocarbons, MTH, MTO, Zeolites
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: metal-organic frameworks, Crystal structure, photocatalysis .
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Perovskites, semiconductor, VOSviewer, quantum emitters
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Ammonia synthesis, CO2 Hydrogenation
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Fluid catalytic Cracking, Crude Oil, Hydrodynamics, reactor design, Equations of state
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
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Transition metal catalysis, photocacalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, Electrocatalysis
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: reaction engineering, Reaction kinetics, Reactor Modelling, CFD
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, Microkinetic Modelling, Activation & Deactivation of Catalyst
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: CO2 utilization, Reactor engineering, reactor design, biofuels, Bio-process modelling and simulation, Separation processes, heterogenous catalysis, Catalyst design
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Perovskites, CO2 utilization, High throughput testing
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: catalysis, DFT, Materials modeling, simulation
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Porous material, separation, catalysis, Electron Microscopy
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Chemical Kinetics , Clean Fuels
PhD Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, SOMC, pincer complexes, Formic acid dehydrogenation
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Nanoparticles, Catalyst design, Porous materials, Carbon based materials
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: reaction engineering, reactor design, Heterogeneous catalysis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics, spectroscopy, TEM
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, Electro-organic Synthesis, Heterogeneous catalyst, Green Chemistry
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: Copper Nanocluster, Crystallization, Photophysics, catalysis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: reactor design, process optimization, CFD, Transport Phenomena, Bio and Waste Refinery
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Materials Science, gas separation, Photophysics
Master Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrocracking, MOFs, photocatalysis ., Zeolites, Oil to chemicals, CO2 to chemicals,, catalysts design
Master Student
Research Interests: adsorption, Solid-gas interactions, Heterogeneous catalysis, Inverse Gas Chromatography, MAX phases
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Optoelectronics, optoelectric and laser sensing technologies, solar cells, flexible electronics, materials' characterization
Master Student
Research Interests: Sustainable polymers, Ring - opening polymerization, Anionic, Polymerization, Homogeneous Catalysis, computational modelling
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: catalysis, Chemical Thermodynamic, Chemical Reaction Engineering, CFD
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Waste upgrading, CO2 Valorization, Electrocatalysis
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Catalyst design, Hydrocracking, Oil to chemicals
Master Student
Research Interests: biochemistry, molecular biology, Protein Biosynthesis, Metabolism
Master Student
Research Interests: MZBR, Crude to Chemicals, Reactor Hydrodynamics and Simulation
Master Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, desilication, Solid-state NMR
Master Student
Research Interests: catalysis, Reactor Modelling, simulation, Optimization