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 Material Science and Engineering
Research Interests: 2D Soft Active Materials (SAMs), Three Dimensionality In 2D SAMs, High Throughput Nanoprocessing of Printable Hybrid Photovoltaics
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
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
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
Staff Engineer - Operando
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Advanced catalyst characterization, In situ/operando characterization, In situ transmission electron microscopy, Advanced TEM techniques, Catalyst Synthesis
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
Process Specialist in Prof. Gascon group
Research Interests: Process Improvement and Optimization, reactor design, Process Control
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: Molecular interactions, Reaction mechanism, QSAR, DFT, Molecular dynamics
Research Technician
Research Interests: Photochemistry, sustainable development, theoretical DFT simulation
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: 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: Photoredox Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Nickel Catalysis
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: Nanoporous, materials, Heterogeneous catalysis, crystal design, synthesis and functionalization, crystal structure determination, catalysis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Intermetallic, Alloy, Nano materials, heterogenous catalysis, Ammonia synthesis, Synthesis
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Anionic Polymerization, ATRP, Non-covalent H-Bonding, Macromolecular architecture
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: Extremophiles, extremozymes, halo-adaptation, bioengineering, biotechnological applications, production of bioplastics, single amplified genomes, crystal structures, gas vesicle nanoparticles
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: Transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, Photo-redox reactions, C-H activation reactions
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: Anionic Polymerization, Complex Macromolecular Architectures
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: Transition metal catalysis, Photocatalysis, eletrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, DFT-calculation, wavefunction analysis
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
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Activated carbon, Hydrocarbons, Catalyst deactivation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Noble metal nanoparticles, Plasmonic nanoparticles, catalysis, Electron Microscopy, Nanomaterials
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Materials modeling, Small molecules activation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Metal catalysis, photocatalysis ., Electrocatalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Detailed mechanism development, Application of AI to fuel design, Sustainable Energy Technologies
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Polymerization, Functionalized polymers, Chiral polymers, Membrane separation, PVDF
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: Nanoporous- Materials, Gas Storage, Heterogeneous catalysis, Environmental Remediation, CO2 capture and conversion
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: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, C1 chemistry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Metal catalyzed transformation, Electrocatalysis, Organocatalysis, Surface Organometallic Catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Process Intensification, reactor design, Multiphase Flows, Transport Phenomena
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: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, Solid-state NMR, DNP assisted NMR
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: Copper cluster, Metal-organic framework, Cluster-based MOF
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrodesulfurization, membranes, gas separation, Surface Organometallic Catalysis, design of nanostructured mesoporous zeolites, otypes and transition metal oxides
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 Fellows
Research Interests: C-H Activation, Catalyst Synthesis, Catalyst deactivation, Electrocatalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Bifunctionality, Catalyst design, Small molecule activation, Hydrogen economy
Research Associate
Research Interests: Photo catalyst materials, Nanomaterial, wastewater treatments, Membrane bioreactor, Biocatalyst material, Metal carbides and nitrides, Electrodeposition techniques
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: Materials modeling, Electrochemistry, Gas catalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Metal catalysis, Enantioselectivity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: hydrogenation, CO2 utilization, Transition Metal Catalyzed Reaction, Green Chemistry
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
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Material chemistry, Noble metal clusters, MOF, catalysis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysts, Porous material, MOFs, photothermal catalysis
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: Catalyst deactivation and carbon nanotubes synthesis
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: adsorption, Solid-gas interactions, Heterogeneous catalysis, Inverse Gas Chromatography, MAX phases
Master Student
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrocracking, MOFs, photocatalysis ., Zeolites, Oil to chemicals, CO2 to chemicals,, catalysts design
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