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GLOBAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP: INVESTIGATORS

Twelve scientists from six countries constitute the inaugural group of Global Research Partnership (GRP) Investigator grantees. Through the GRP, highly accomplished scientists and engineers, collectively known as Investigators, receive five-year individual grants to support research on a wide range of issues of interest to Saudi Arabia, the region, and the world. The GRP Investigator grantees are:

Dr. Yi Cui
Stanford University
Advanced Electrical Energy Storage Using Nanowires
Dr. Ahmed F. Ghoniem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advanced Energy Conversion Systems
Dr. Nicholas Paul Harberd
University of Oxford
Crop-plant Domestication in the Genome-Biology Era
Dr. Nobuyasu Ito
University of Tokyo
Avogadro Challenge – Nanodynamics Study on Nonequilibrium Problems
Dr. William Koros
Georgia Institute of Technology
Advanced Membranes and Sorbents for More Sustainable Hydrocarbon Utilization
Dr. Bruce Logan
Pennsylvania State University
Energy for a Sustainable Water Infrastructure and Agriculture
Dr. Peter A. Markowich
University of Cambridge
Applied and Computational Differential Equations in Life Sciences, Nanoscience and Engineering
Dr. Paulo Monteiro
University of California, Berkeley
Green Concrete and Sustainable Construction: A Multi-scale Approach
Dr. Bengt Nordén
Chalmers University of Technology
Bio-inspired Molecular Nanotechnology
Dr. Edward Hartley Sargent
University of Toronto
Nanotechnology for Solar Energy
Dr. Brian Stoltz
California Institute of Technology
Selective Aerobic Catalytic Oxidation Chemistry
Dr. Anna Tramontano
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Systems View of Biological Organisms: Computational Approach

World-renowned scientists and engineers served on the 14-member KAUST Investigators selection panel, which was chaired by Dr. Frank Press, President Emeritus of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The panel included two Nobel laureates, a winner of the Fields Medal and the King Faisal Prize, and experts who have received international recognition for their accomplishments in science and engineering.

Dr. Zhores Alferov
Director, St. Petersburg Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
Dr. John Anderson
President, Illinois Institute of Technology
Sir Michael Atiyah
Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh, former president of the Royal Society
The Honorable Erich Bloch
Former Director, U.S. National Science Foundation, and former Vice President, International Business Machines Corp.
Dame Ann Dowling
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr. Anita Jones
Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
Dr. Steven E. Koonin
Chief Scientist, British Petroleum, and former Provost, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Alex Law
Acting Chair, School of Biological Sciences, and Associate Chair, Research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lord E. Ronald Oxburgh
Former Rector, Imperial College London
Dr. Kumar Patel
Former Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. John Polanyi
Professor, University of Toronto
Dr. Frank Press
Member, KAUST International Advisory Council
President Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Alexander Rich
William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Fawwaz Ulaby
Former Provost, KAUST