Faculty

• Tadeusz W. Patzek, Ph.D.

  Center Director & Professor, Chemical &am...

  tadeusz.patzek@kaust.edu.sa
• Thomas Finkbeiner, Ph.D.

  Research Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum...

  Research Interest: Geomechanics, Drilling, Well completion, Production, Natural fracture systems, Flow, Compaction, Subsidence, Reservoir modeling, F...

  thomas.finkbeiner@kaust.edu.sa
• J. Carlos Santamarina, Ph.D.

  Associate Center Director & Professor,
  ...

  carlos.santamarina@kaust.edu.sa
• Aboud Afifi, Ph.D.

  Professor, Earth Science & Engineering

  Research Interest: Regional geology of the Middle East, particularly the geological evolution of the Red Sea.  Neotectonics and seismicity. ...

  abdulkader.alafifi@kaust.edu.sa
• Shehab Ahmed, Ph.D.

  Professor, Electrical Engineering

  Research Interest: Power Conversion and Distribution, Electromechanics and Applied Magnetics, Subsurface Mechatronics

  shehab.ahmed@kaust.edu.sa
• Hussein Hoteit, Ph.D.

  Associate Professor, Earth Science & Engineeri...

  Research Interest: Reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery,  chemical flood, reservoir simulation, experimental design, compositional model...

  hussein.hoteit@kaust.edu.sa
• Volker Vahrenkamp, Ph.D.

  Professor, Earth Science & Engineering

  Research Interest: Modern & ancient carbonates, diagenesis, chemo stratigraphy, impact of past environmental crisis (OAEs) on shallow marine carb...

  volker.vahrenkamp@kaust.edu.sa