Our Faculty
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Research Centers
- Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials
- Visual Computing
- Water Desalination and Reuse
- Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center
- KAUST Artificial Intelligence Initiative
- Smart Health Initiative
- Climate and Livability Initiative
- KAUST Catalysis Center
- Clean Combustion
- Computational Bioscience
- Center for Desert Agriculture
- Extreme Computing
- Red Sea Research Center
- KAUST Solar Center
- Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center
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Degree Programs
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Earth Science and Engineering
- Material Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Statistics
- Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
- Applied Physics
- Bioengineering
- Bioscience
- Environmental Science and Engineering
- Marine Science
- Plant Science
- Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
- Computer Science
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Research Areas
- Computational Bioscience
- Computer Science
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Extreme Computing
- Visual Computing
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Chemical Science
- Earth Science and Engineering
- Material Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Machine Learning
- Statistics
- Security/Resilience
- Environmental Systems
- Epigenetics
- Functional Biology
- Genomics
- Imaging/Structural Biology
- Marine Science
- Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Physical Science and Engineering Division
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Abdulkader M. AfifiProfessor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
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Tariq AlkhalifahProfessor, Earth Science and Engineering
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Husam N. AlshareefProfessor, Material Science and Engineering
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Dana Al-SulaimanAssistant Professor, Material Science and Engineering
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Thomas AnthopoulosProfessor, Material Science and Engineering
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Osman M. BakrProfessor, Material Science and Engineering
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Derya BaranAssociate Professor, Material Science and Engineering
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Jean Marie BassetEmeritus Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
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HYLKE BECKAssistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering
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Frans Van BuchemProfessor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
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Pedro CastañoAssociate Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Luigi CavalloProfessor, Chemistry
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Min Suk ChaAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Bassam DallyProfessor, Mechanical Engineering
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DAN DANIELAssistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Stefaan De WolfProfessor, Material Science and Engineering | Interim Associate Director KAUST Solar Center | Chair, Material Science and Engineering Program
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Mohamed EddaoudiDistinguished Professor, Chemistry Director, Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center
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Aamir FarooqProfessor, Mechanical Engineering Chair, Mechanical Engineering Program
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Shadi FatayerAssistant Professor, Applied Physics
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Thomas FinkbeinerResearch Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
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Qiaoqiang GanProfessor, Material Science and Engineering
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Jorge GasconProfessor, Chemical Engineering
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Yves GnanouDistinguished Professor, Chemistry Special Advisor, Office of the President
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Carlos A. GrandeAssociate Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Thibault F. GuibertiAssistant Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Nikos HadjichristidisDistinguished Professor, Chemistry
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Yu HanProfessor, Chemistry
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Martin HeeneyProfessor, Chemistry
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Hussein HoteitProfessor of Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
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Ibrahim HoteitProfessor, Earth Science and Engineering
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Kuo-Wei HuangProfessor, Chemistry
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Hong G. ImProfessor, Mechanical Engineering
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Sigurjón JónssonProfessor, Earth Science and Engineering Chair, Earth Science and Engineering Program
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Chak K. ChanDean of Physical Science and Engineering
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Niveen M. KhashabProfessor, Chemistry Chair, Chemistry Program | Associate Dean of Students, Physical Sciences and Engineering
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Yoji KobayashiAssociate Professor, Chemistry
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Deanna LacosteAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Zhiping LaiProfessor, Chemistry
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Mario LanzaAssociate Professor, Material Science and Engineering
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Frédéric LaquaiProfessor, Applied Physics Interim Director, KAUST Solar Center
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Xu LuAssistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Gilles LubineauProfessor, Mechanical Engineering
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Gaetano MagnottiAssociate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Paul Martin MaiProfessor, Earth Science and Engineering
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Iain McCullochProfessor (adjunct), Chemistry
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Omar F. MohammedProfessor, Material Science and Engineering
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Brian MoranProfessor, Mechanical Engineering Dean of Graduate Affairs
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Tadeusz W. PatzekProfessor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering Director, Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center
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Klaus-Viktor PeinemannProfessor (Adjunct), Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Ingo PinnauProfessor, Chemical Engineering Chair, Chemical Engineering Program
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Sanjay RastogiProfessor, Chemistry
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Matteo RavasiAssistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering
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William RobertsProfessor, Mechanical Engineering Director, Clean Combustion Research Center
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Iman RoqanAssistant Professor, Material Science and Engineering
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Magnus RuepingProfessor, Chemistry Associate Director, KAUST Catalysis Center
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Javier Ruiz-MartinezAssistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
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J. Carlos SantamarinaAdjunct Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering Associate Director, Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center
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Mani SarathyProfessor, Chemical Engineering Associate Director, Clean Combustion Research Center
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Peter SchmidProfessor, Mechanical Engineering
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Udo SchwingenschlöglProfessor, Applied Physics Chair, Applied Physics Program | Associate Dean of Faculty, Physical Sciences and Engineering
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Georgiy L. StenchikovProfessor, Earth Science and Engineering
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Seán M. StewartLecturer
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Shuyu SunProfessor, Earth Science and Engineering
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Gyorgy SzekelyAssistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Sigurdur ThoroddsenProfessor, Mechanical Engineering
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Tadd TruscottAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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James TurnerProfessor, Mechanical Engineering
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Volker C. VahrenkampProfessor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
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Bicheng YanAssistant Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
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Cafer T. YavuzProfessor, Chemistry
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Mohammad YounisAdjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Xixiang ZhangProfessor, Material Science and Engineering
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Huabin ZhangAssistant Professor, Chemistry
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Froukje M. van der ZwanAssistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering