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Amr Abdel-Hamid

Instructional Professor, Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Abdulkader M. Afifi

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Susana Agusti
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Adjunct Professor, Marine Science
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Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instructional Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Salim Al Babili
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Professor, Plant Science
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Fahd Al Qureshah

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Bioscience

Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Maryam Alghannam

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Abdulrahman Alhamed

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tariq Alkhalifah

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Jawaher Almutlaq

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Tareq Al-Naffouri

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Majed Alrefae
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Instructional Assistant Professor
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Husam N. Alshareef

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Dana AL-Sulaiman

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Thomas Anthopoulos

Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Jean Marie Basset
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Emeritus Professor, Chemistry
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Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Alfonso Caraveo

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

SUSANA CARVALHO

Research Associate Professor, Marine Science

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Alfredo De Biasio
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Assistant Professor, Bioscience
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Stefaan De Wolf

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Roberto Di Pietro
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Professor, Computer Science
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Instructional Professor, Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Carlos M. Duarte

Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Marine Science

Mohamed Eddaoudi

Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor, Chemistry

Sabine El Khoury

Instructional Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed Elhoseiny
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Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Maurizio Filippone
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Associate Professor, Statistics
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Thomas Finkbeiner

Research Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Andrea Fratalocchi

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Statistics

Noreddine Ghaffour

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Peter Goadsby
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Professor, Bioscience
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Takashi Gojobori

Emeritus Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Bioscience

Alexandra A. Gomes

Instructional Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

David Gomez-Cabrero
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Associate Professor, Bioscience
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Carlos A. Grande

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Thibault F. Guiberti

Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Satoshi Habuchi
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Professor, Bioscience
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Nikos Hadjichristidis

Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor, Chemistry

Instructional Professor, Computer Science

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Sigurjón Jónsson

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

David I. Ketcheson

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Yoji Kobayashi
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Associate Professor, Chemistry
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Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Simon Krattinger
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Associate Professor, Plant Science
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Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Zhiping Lai
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Professor, Chemistry
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Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati

Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Ibn Rushd Assistant Professor, Bioscience

Frédéric Laquai

Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Research Associate Professor, Bioscience

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Gilles Lubineau
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Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Pierre Magistretti

Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Bioscience

Gaetano Magnotti

Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Magdy M. Mahfouz
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Professor, Bioengineering
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Paul Martin Mai

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Petra Marhava
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Assistant Professor, Plant Science
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Research Assistant Professor, Plant Science

Peter Markowich

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Himanshu Mishra

Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Omar F. Mohammed

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Mikhail Moshkov

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

ANDREAS NASCHBERGER
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Assistant Professor, Bioscience
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Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Hernando Ombao
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Professor, Statistics
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Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Tadeusz W. Patzek

Emeritus Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Klaus-Viktor Peinemann

Emeritus Professor, Chemical Engineering

Raquel Peixoto
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Professor, Marine Science
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Cristian Picioreanu

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

HELMUT POTTMANN

Adjunct Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Instructional Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Javier Ruiz-Martinez

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Khaled Nabil Salama

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Udo Schwingenschlögl

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Basem Shihada
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Professor, Computer Science
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Research Associate Professor, Computer Science

Muhammad Shuaib
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Instructional Assistant Professor
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Instructional Associate Professor, Computer Science

Georgiy L. Stenchikov

Emeritus Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Ahmed K. Sultan Salem

Instructional Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Ying Sun
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Professor, Statistics
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Fernando T. Maestre

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Jesper Tegnér
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Professor, Bioscience
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Raul F. Tempone

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

George Turkiyyah

Research Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

James Turner
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Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Athanasios Tzavaras

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Volker C. Vahrenkamp

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Frans Van Buchem

Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Ivan Viola
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Professor, Computer Science
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Johannes Vrouwenvelder

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Yoshihide Wada
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Professor, Plant Science
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Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Plant Science

Geert-Jan Witkamp

Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering

Peter Wonka
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Professor, Computer Science
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Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering

Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics

Huabin Zhang
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Assistant Professor, Chemistry
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Froukje M. van der Zwan

Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science and Engineering