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Research

KAUST GLOBAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INVESTIGATORS

Twelve scientists from six different countries create the inaugural group of Global Research Partnership (GRP) Investigator grantees. Through the GRP, highly accomplished scientists and engineers, collectively known as Investigators, will be receiving five-year individual grants to support research on a wide range of issues, including:

  • water desalination
  • renewable and sustainable next-generation energy sources
  • genomics of salt-tolerant plants
  • durable and environmentally friendly construction materials
  • hydrocarbon utility
  • low-cost solar cell efficiency
  • disease immunization
  • applied partial differential equations

The inaugural GRP Investigator grantees are:

Dr. Yi Cui
Stanford University
Dr. Ahmed F. Ghoniem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Nicholas Paul Harberd
University of Oxford
Dr. Nobuyasu Ito
University of Tokyo
Dr. William Koros
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Bruce Logan
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Peter A. Markowich
University of Cambridge
Dr. Paulo Monteiro
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Bengt Nordén
Chalmers University of Technology
Dr. Edward Hartley Sargent
University of Toronto
Dr. Brian Stoltz
California Institute of Technology
Dr. Anna Tramontano
University of Rome, La Sapienza