Center of Excellence for NEOM Research at KAUST
KAUST Preseident and Office of the Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development
Tony Chan
KAUST President
tony.chan@kaust.edu.sa
Jean Frechet
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science
Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development
Member, NEOM Advisory Board
jean.frechet@kaust.edu.sa
Teofilo (Jun) Abrajano
Director, Office of Sponsored Research
teofilo.abrajano@kaust.edu.sa
Rory Jordan
Senior Research Advisor, Office of Sponsored Research
rory.jordan@kaust.edu.sa
Hanaa Youssef
Research Program Administrator, Office of Sponsored Research Strategic Executive
Assistance to the Director of the CoE for NEOM Research at KAUST
hanaa.youssef@kaust.edu.sa
NEOM
Ronald Bowker
Chief of Staff
NEOM
External Collaborators
Ana Deletic
University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research
a.deletic@unsw.edu.au
Florian Dörfler
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
dorfler@ethz.ch
Steve Groom
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Head of Science, Earth Observation Science
Director of the NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service
sbg@pml.ac.uk
Karl Henrik Johansson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Distinguished Professor of the Swedish Research Council
Director, The Stockholm Strategic Research Area ICT The Next Generation
kallej@kth.se
Ali Malkawi
Harvard University, USA
Professor of Architectural Technology
Founding Director, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
amalkawi@gsd.harvard.edu
Hani Mahmassani
Northwestern University, USA
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation
Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center
masmah@northwestern.edu
Robin Morelissen
Deltares, the Netherlands
Senior Researcher/Consultant, Coastal Hydrodynamics
robin.morelissen@deltares.nl
Veljko Prodanovic
University of New South Wales
Research Scientist, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Water Research Center
v.profanovic@unsw.edu.au
Florian Rist
Vienna University of Technology
Senior Scientist at the Department for 3D Modeling and Model Making
The Center for Geometry and Computational Design
florian.rist@tuwien.ac.at
Harry Seah
Public Utilities Board (PUB) Singapore, Singapore
Chief Engineering and Technology Officer and Director of Technology
harry_seah@pub.gov.sg
Luigi Vanfretti
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
vanfri@rpi.edu
KAUST Faculty Participants