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Kalendeski, Dr. Issam Gereige, Dr. Taewoo Ryu, Dr. Johanna Beyer, Dr. Mamoon Rashid, Dr. Ali Idris, Dr. Zhonghai Zhang, Dr. Hailin Dong, Dr. Yin Chen, and Dr. Yulia Medvedeva.
Professor Ulrich Stingl
The SEDCO Research Excellence Award, KAUST’s first privately-funded research grant, was awarded to “The Deep-Sea Brine Pools of the Red Sea: From Novel Extreme Organisms to Commercial Applications.” The research project is led by principal investigator Ulrich Stingl (Assistant Professor, CLSE), and co-investigators Jorg Eppinger (Assistant Professor, CLSE), Samir Hamdan (Assistant Professor, CLSE), Vladimir Bajic (Professor, MCSE), and Niveen Khashab (Assistant Professor, CLSE). Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Professor, PSE) was awarded two Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) grants, May 2012.
Professor Suzana Nunes
A sampling of grants SABIC Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards for researchers involved in long-term research relevant to SABIC and Saudi Arabia were granted to Dr. Khalid Quraishi, Dr. Miao Sun, Dr. Elizabeth Tyler, Dr. Min Yoon, Dr. Luke Thompson, Dr. Stoitchko
Suzana Nunes (Associate Professor, CLSE), along with Markus Hadwiger (Associate Professor, MCSE), Ganesh Sundaramoorthi (Assistant Professor, PSE), and Victor Calo (Assistant Professor PSE), was the recipient of the Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Collaborative Award. The three year project, “Visualization and Pore Tuning of Asymmetric Membranes,” began December 2011. Boon Ooi (Professor, PSE) has been awarded a King Abdullah City of Science and Technology (KACST) grant to set up a Technology Innovation Center (KACST-TIC) in solid state lighting at KAUST.
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