Bruno Aragon, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Matthew F. McCabe, received an outstanding student presentation award (OSPA) from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) during the fall meeting in Washington, D.C., USA on December 10-14, 2018.

​Dr. Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, a research scientist in the KAUST Water Desalination and Reuse Center under the supervision of KAUST Professor Kim Choon Ng, received the "Best Oral Presentation" award at the 2nd Global Conference and Expo on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in October 2018.

The Water Desalination and Reuse Center is proud to announce the center's ‘Environmental Science and Engineering’ graduates for 2018.

Professor Pascal Saikaly and his team developed a new concept to convert industrial CO2 emissions into valuable chemicals.

WDRC congratulates Le Shi for a successful defense of her thesis entitled "Rational Design of Photothermal Material for Clean Water Production Driven by Solar Energy" under the supervision of Prof. Peng Wang.

WDRC hosted the 9th Annual Meeting of the Center Industry Affiliates Program (CIAP) in the campus. The event was attended by over 40 representatives from the center's industry partners and senior executives from KAUST.

An inexpensive hydrogel-based material efficiently captures moisture even from low-humidity air and then releases it on demand.

Babar successfully defended his dissertation entitled, "Early biofouling detection using fluorescence-based extracellular enzyme activity".

Immersion could become the ultimate test for assessing the wetting properties of coating-free microtextured surfaces.

Congratulations to Babar Khan for receiving the best Oral Presentation Award at the International Symposium on Nanomaterials and Membrane Science 2018, held in Marrakech, Morocco on October 11-12, 2018.

Professor Peiying Hong is the recipient of the 2019 James J. Morgan Environmental Science & Technology Early Career Award.

WDRC welcomes Professor Geert-Jan Witkamp as a professor of Process Technology effective September 27, 2018.

Nada Aljassim shares her inspiring journey as a KGSP student until she earns her Ph.D. degree at KAUST.

The KGSP program has become Saudi Arabia's preeminent STEM scholarship and is attracting ambitious students who want to contribute to innovation and development in the Kingdom.

Professor TorOve Leiknes and his team are setting up an aquaponics system at KAUST to trial ways of rearing fish and growing crops using recycled residential wastewater from the university complex. Their project will investigate how to optimize the system, including trialing novel lighting methods and fish feed and improved water-treatment processes.

An eco-friendly coating-free strategy has now been developed to make solid surfaces liquid repellent, which is crucial for the transportation of large quantities of liquids through pipes. Researchers from KAUST’s Water Desalination and Reuse Center have engineered nature-inspired surfaces that help to decrease frictional drag at the interface between liquid and pipe surface.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the recent advancement of three of our faculty members, in recognition of their contribution to scientific scholarship and the goals of WDRC.

Let us all congratulate them on this important milestone in their career!

Associate Professor Peng Wang and Professor Yu Han co-led postdoc Sifei Zhuo in developing and a new approach to growing nanomaterials that have a good electrocatalytic performance for great energy conversion and storage potential for electrochemical applications.

Prof. Kim Choon Ng and his collaborators at the National University of Singapore is the recipient of Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2018 by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES).

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Hong Cheng for winning the most popular poster award at the 15th International Water Association Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies held in Nanjing, China from May 27-31, 2018.

Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour and his group explored the effects of two thermal-based desalination methods with respect to its boron removal capacity. The Air-gap membrane distillation (AGMD), an emerging technology being developed at WDRC has proven its high potential in the production of safe, innovative and cost-effective drinking water that would meet the stringent standards of boron concentration set by Saudi Arabia and the GCC in its water distribution systems. Learn more about boron and its volatile behavior in this latest article.