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Abdulkader M. Afifi

Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instructional Professor, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering

Salim Al Babili
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Professor, Plant Science
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SAMI G. AL-GHAMDI

Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Maryam Alghannam

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Tariq Alkhalifah

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Jawaher Almutlaq

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Tareq Al-Naffouri

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Husam N. Alshareef

Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Dana Al-Sulaiman

Assistant Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Thomas Anthopoulos

Adjunct Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Material Science and Engineering

 Associate Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Jean Marie Basset
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Emeritus Professor, Chemistry
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Assistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

David Bolin
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Professor, Statistics
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Frans Van Buchem

Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Marco Canini
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Professor, Computer Science
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Alfonso Caraveo

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

SUSANA CARVALHO

Research Associate Professor, Marine Science

Assistant Professor,  Mechanical Engineering

Alfredo De Biasio
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Assistant Professor, Bioscience
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Stefaan De Wolf

Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Roberto Di Pietro
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Professor, Computer Science
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Instructional Professor, Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Carlos M. Duarte

Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Marine Science

Mohamed Eddaoudi

Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor, Chemistry

Sabine El Khoury
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Instructional Professor
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Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed Elhoseiny
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Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Maurizio Filippone
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Associate Professor, Statistics
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Thomas Finkbeiner

Research Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Andrea Fratalocchi

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Imed Gallouzi
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Professor, Bioscience
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Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Statistics

Noreddine Ghaffour

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Takashi Gojobori

Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Emeritus of Bioscience

Alexandra A. Gomes
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Instructional Professor
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Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

David Gomez-Cabrero
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Associate Professor, Bioscience
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Carlos A. Grande

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Thibault F. Guiberti

Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Satoshi Habuchi
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Professor, Bioscience
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Nikos Hadjichristidis

Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor, Chemistry

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Associate Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Assistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Sigurjón Jónsson

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

David I. Ketcheson

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Yoji Kobayashi
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Associate Professor, Chemistry
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Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Simon Krattinger
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Associate Professor, Plant Science
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Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Zhiping Lai
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Professor, Chemistry
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Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati

Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Adjunct Associate Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Nouf Laqtom
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Assistant Professor, Bioscience
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Frédéric Laquai

Adjunct Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, and Applied Physics

Research Associate Professor, Bioscience

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Gilles Lubineau
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Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Pierre Magistretti

Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Bioscience

Gaetano Magnotti

 Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Magdy M. Mahfouz
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Professor, Bioengineering
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Paul Martin Mai

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Peter Markowich

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Himanshu Mishra

Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Omar F. Mohammed

Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Mikhail Moshkov

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

ANDREAS NASCHBERGER
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Assistant Professor, Plant Science
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Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Yun Hau Ng
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Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Professor, Chemical and Environmental Science and Engineering

Hernando Ombao
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Professor, Statistics 
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Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Tadeusz W. Patzek

Emeritus Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Klaus-Viktor Peinemann

Emeritus Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Raquel Peixoto
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Professor, Marine Science
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Cristian Picioreanu

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

HELMUT POTTMANN

Adjunct Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Assistant Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Javier Ruiz-Martinez

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Khaled Nabil Salama

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Basem Shihada
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Professor, Computer Science
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Research Associate Professor, Computer Science

Malek Smaoui
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Instructional Associate Professor
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Georgiy L. Stenchikov

Emeritus Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Fernando T. Maestre

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Jesper Tegnér
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Professor, Bioscience
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Raul F. Tempone

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

James Turner
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Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Athanasios Tzavaras

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Volker C. Vahrenkamp

Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Ivan Viola
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Professor, Computer Science
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Johannes Vrouwenvelder

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Yoshihide Wada
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Professor, Plant Science
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Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Geert-Jan Witkamp

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Peter Wonka
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Professor, Computer Science
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Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Brande Wulff
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Associate Professor, Plant Science
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Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Assistant Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Cafer T. Yavuz
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Professor, Chemistry
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Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Samah Zeineb Gadhoum

Instructional Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering

Professor, Material Science and Engineering

Huabin Zhang
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Assistant Professor, Chemistry
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Froukje M. van der Zwan

Assistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering