11 May, 2022
Desalination Journal selects Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour as Co-EditorThe Desalination is an interdisciplinary journal publishing high-quality papers on desalination materials, processes, and related technologies with an impact factor of 9.501.
13 April, 2022
Himanshu Mishra is the 2021-2022 "Golden Jubilee Visiting Fellowship Endowment" RecipientCongratulations to Professor Himanshu Mishra!
23 January, 2022
Interfacial Lab Wins Second Place at WEP 2022 -Women to Impact ChallengeWDRC’s Professor Mishra and his students Adair Gallo Jr. and Batool Albar won second place (Cash prize US $ 7000) in the Women to Impact Challenge organized during the Winter Enrichment Program (January 2022).
19 January, 2022
Wetskills Challenge Announces WinnerCongratulations to Ph.D. student Laura Pulido Beltran for being part of the winning team at the Wetskills Challenge!
16 November, 2021
DiplomaticQuarter: Austrian Embassy honors Saudi winner of Energy Globe AwardThe Austrian Embassy honored the winner of the Energy Globe Award Saudi Arabia 2021 at a business circle event titled “Green Tech Austria”.
24 October, 2021
Changzhi Wang wins Best Poster Award at MEWE 2021Changzhi Wang's poster entitled “Metagenomic investigation of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factor genes in extracellular DNA across wastewater treatment processes” wins the “Best Poster Award" at the 9th IWA MEWE Specialist Conference held in the Netherlands.
06 October, 2021
Novel ventilator delivers more than oxygenVENTIBAG prototype is finally ready. Congratulations, Dr. Adnan Qamar!
14 September, 2021
A cool solution for water collectionNature Middle East features Professor Noreddine Ghaffour and Dr. Yong Jin's latest work! The team developed a salt-solution-infused thin-film condenser (SSTFC) system, which could contribute more than 50% energy savings compared with conventional defrosting systems.
01 September, 2021
Journal of Materials Chemistry A September Issue features Dr. Faheem Akhtar's researchJournal of Materials Chemistry A September Issue features Dr. Faheem Akhtar's research on adsorbents for moisture removal.
31 August, 2021
Adair Gallo Jr.'s research on liquid marbles is the September cover of Soft Matter JournalLearn more about liquid marbles. This study led by Adair Gallo, Ph.d. student and Prof. Himanshu Mishra is the September cover of Soft Matter Journal.
07 July, 2021
KAUST researchers attend 70th Lindau Nobel MeetingAdair Gallo Jr. , a Ph.D. student is one of the KAUST participants at the prestigious 70th editing of the Lindau Meeting this year.
24 June, 2021
Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour is guest editor of "Special Issue on Membrane Distillation"WDRC Professor Noredine Ghaffour is selected as one of the guest editors of the "Special Issue on Membrane Distillation".
27 April, 2021
WDRC scientists selected as Special Issue Editors of "Water Treatment Processes."The Membranes Journal selected Dr. Szilard Bucs, Dr. Nadia Farhat, and Dr. Luca Fortunato as the guest editors of a special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375), entitled "Water Treatment Processes."
12 March, 2021
Polymeron selected as one of the 2021 Taqadam WinnersCongratulations to the founders of Polymeron, Rodrigo Jimenez Sandoval (Ph.D. student), Noor Zaouri (alumna), and Martin Ibarra (KAUST Ph.D. student)!
01 March, 2021
Latest paper of Prof. Mishra is the March cover of Quantum ChemistryProf. Mishra's paper on treating wastewater is the March cover of Quantum Chemistry!
03 January, 2021
Hybrid MEDAD wins MEED Sustainability Medal 2020Hybrid MEDAD received the "Sustainability Medal 2020" for the project "An Innovative Hybrid Solar Desalination Cycle" at the MEED Project Awards held December 16th in Dubai, UAE.
23 November, 2020
WDRC Faculty rank amongst the world's top scientists and engineersSix of our Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) faculty have been ranked among the top 2% of researchers globally, according to a list recently published by Stanford University.
11 November, 2020
Dr. Muhammad Saqib Nawaz wins best oral presentation awardDr. Muhammad Saqib Nawaz, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour's group, won the best oral presentation award at the Virtual Pak Water & Energy Exhibition & Webinar event on November 3-5, 2020.
20 October, 2020
Dario Rangel Shaw receives the 2020 ISMET Discovery AwardCongratulations to Dario Rangel Shaw, a Ph.D. student in Prof. Pascal Saikaly's group for receiving the prestigious Discovery Award for Best Scientific paper from the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET).
01 October, 2020
Professor Peng Wang receives the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for WaterProfessor Peng Wang is the 9th Award recipient of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) on the Alternative Water Resource category. Congratulations!