KING ABDULLAH PROFESSORS

KAUST will develop a special category for faculty members called the King Abdullah Professors – eminent scholars, perhaps with joint appointments at other institutions, and the residential equivalents of Distinguished University Professors with special distinction and rank. These senior-research faculty members may compose up to 10 percent of the total faculty size at any time and, in many cases, are likely to be drawn from scientific disciplines important to the focus of research programs at KAUST.

KAUST will begin recruiting the founding group of King Abdullah Professors in 2008. The University will offer them a generously funded laboratory on its campus and maximum freedom and flexibility in staffing and operating the lab. King Abdullah Professors are expected to have deep and broad research science and/or engineering research portfolios, a major portion of which will be located at KAUST, in areas of critical importance to the University, such as water desalination, clean combustion, composite materials, applied mathematics and modeling, and environmental bioscience.