MEET OUR TEAM


Supported by an international advisory board, our faculty-led teams apply their wide-ranging expertise to tackle some of the most critical climate issues of our time.

Director

Matthew F. McCabe

Professor of Remote Sensing and Water Security | Director, Climate and Livability Initiative

CLI Faculty

Fernando T. Maestre

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Hylke E. Beck

Assistant Professor, Climate Analytics

Sami Al-Ghamdi

Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Yoshihide Wada

Professor, Plant Science and Environmental Science and Engineering

Advisory Board

Drew Shindell

Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science at Duke University

H.H. Princess Mashael Saud AlShalan

Co-Founder, AEON Collective

Research Interests: climate change policy, socioeconomic development and sustainability

Jeffrey D. Sachs

University Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Johan Rockström

Professor in Environmental Science at Stockholm University

Timothy L. Killeen

President of the University of Illinois System

Collaborators

Carlos M. Duarte

Distinguished Professor, Marine Science | Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology

Francesca Benzoni

Associate Professor, Marine Science

Georgiy L. Stenchikov

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Ibrahim Hoteit

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

J. Carlos Santamarina

Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering | Associate Director, Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center

Jorge Gascon

Professor, Chemical Engineering | Director, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) | Lead, KAUST Circular Carbon Initiative

Maggie Johnson

Assistant Professor, Marine Science

Marc G. Genton

Distinguished Professor, Statistics

Michael L. Berumen

Professor, Marine Science | Director, Red Sea Research Center

Raphaël Huser

Assistant Professor, Statistics

Raquel Peixoto

Associate Professor, Marine Science

Tadeusz W. Patzek

Professor, Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering Director, Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center

Ying Sun

Associate Professor, Statistics

Funded Investigators

Atif Shamim

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Khaled Salama

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | Associate Dean, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering

Kyle Lauersen

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

Mani Sarathy

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering | Associate Director, Clean Combustion Research Center

Nazek Elatab

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Omar M. Knio

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science | Acting Dean, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering

Shehab Elsayed

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Program