Congratulations to KAUST Solar Center Director Prof. Iain McCulloch who has been listed on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2017 for both Chemistry and Materials Science.

On November 22nd KSC's Rahim Munir presented his research and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.

Daniel Corzo wins the Science as Art competition

Research into solar energy was a dominant subject in this year’s Saudi Research Science Institute (SRSI).

Thin films for use in solar cells are more effective when simple chemicals called glycol ethers are added to the film-forming mix, a KAUST team has found.

Sara Abbas wins RSC poster prize at 13th International Conference on Materials in Chemistry

Abdulkhaleq Almansaf is a winner of 3M’s 2017 Invent a New Future Challenge, a global case competition from 3M which aims to reward the extraordinary thinking of talented college and graduate students around the world.

11th Grade student, Hamza Mohammed, to gain an insight into KSC research as part of the SRSI program which aims to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

Ahmad R. Kirmani successfully presented his research and defended his PhD thesis.

Hanlin Hu successfully completed his PhD

Find out more about KSC Prof. Stefaan De Wolf's research.

Prof. Derya Baran, was nominated by the Helmholtz Association, Germany, to attend the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry)

The chance observation of crystals forming a coffee-ring effect by Dr Liyang Yu has led to Prof. Amassian and co-workers at KSC making significant advances in controlling crystallization.

This month we are delighted to welcome Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos who has joined KSC as Professor of Material Science and Engineering.

The Solar Center extends a warm welcome to Prof. Derya Baran who joined KSC in January.

KSC students were granted the opportunity to organize a student-led symposium at the recent MRS Fall 2016 conference. Congratulations to the KSC students who successfully ran the event and to all their guest speakers.

ACS Energy Letters' editorial features the KAUST Research Conference held Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2016 and highlights the award recipients. Our congratulations to them all.

​Congratulations to Ph.D. student Maha Ahmed Alamoudi on her prize-winning poster at the MRS conference.

​Last week at a recognition dinner, KAUST honored 12 members of its faculty who have been promoted to the ranks of associate professor and professor.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Osman Bakr was among the five winning Innovators under 35 in the Arab World this year.