Our Faculty
KAUST offers superb research facilities; generous, assured research funding; and internationally competitive salaries. We attract top international faculty and students to conduct fundamental and goal-oriented research to address the world's pressing scientific and technological challenges. Apply now for the open positions and be a part of our community.FILTER BY
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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
Functional Biology
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Salim Al BabiliProfessor, Plant Science | Associate Dean of Faculty, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering
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Ikram BlilouProfessor, Plant Science Chair, Plant Science Program
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Daniele DaffonchioProfessor, Marine Science Chair, Marine Science Program
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Imed GallouziProfessor, Bioscience Associate Director, KAUST Smart-Health Initiative
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Xin GaoProfessor, Computer Science Acting Associate Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center
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David Gomez-CabreroAssociate Professor, Bioscience
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Heribert HirtProfessor, Plant Science
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Robert HoehndorfAssociate Professor, Computer Science
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Leena Ali IbrahimAssistant Professor, Bioscience
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Sahika InalAssociate Professor, Bioengineering
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Simon KrattingerAssociate Professor of Plant Science
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Nouf LaqtomAssistant Professor, Bioscience
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Kyle J. LauersenAssistant Professor, Bioengineering
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Mo LiAssociate Professor, Bioscience
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Magdy M. MahfouzProfessor, Bioengineering
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Peter MarkowichDistinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
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Jasmeen MerzabanAssociate Professor, Bioscience
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Himanshu MishraAssociate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering
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Alexandre Soares RosadoProfessor, Bioscience
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Jesper TegnérProfessor, Bioscience
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Mark TesterProfessor, Plant Science Associate Director, Center for Desert Agriculture Co-founder and CSO, Red Sea Farms LLC
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Rod A. WingProfessor, Plant Science Director, Center for Desert Agriculture
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Brande WulffAssociate Professor, Plant Science