Husam N. Alshareef

Husam Alshareef is the Dean of the Physical Science & Engineering Division at KAUST. He is also a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Founding Director of the Center of Excellence on Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies (CREST) at KAUST. He obtained his BS degree in Ceramics Engineering from Alfred University, (Alfred, USA), and his MS and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. He spent 2 years as postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, United States. He then embarked on a 11-year career in the semiconductor industry, holding positions at Micron Technology and Texas Instruments. There he worked on developing new materials and processes for integrated circuit fabrication. In 2009 he joined King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) as Founding Professor, where he initiated an active research group focusing on developing nanomaterials for energy and electronic applications. The author of 650 journal publications, 100 conference publications, and 80 issued patents, he has been a Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science for several years. He has won numerous awards including the UNDP Undergraduate Fellowship, Seth Sprague Physics Award, North Carolina State University Dean’s Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education Electronic Materials Fellowship, Sandia National Laboratory Post-doctoral Fellowship, the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award (2006), two DOW Sustainability Awards with his students in (2011) and (2014), the AH Shoman Award for Excellence in Energy Research (2016), the KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award (2018), and the Kuwait Prize in Clean and Sustainable Technologies (2018). He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and IEEE Distinguished Speaker in Nanotechnology. He was Chair of the 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston, USA, and has served on various MRS committees. He established the first MRS Student Chapter outside USA at KAUST. He served as associate editor for the Journal of Electronic Materials (2011-2013) and is on the Editorial Board of several high-impact journals including Wiley's Advanced Materials and eScience. His research has been featured in several media outlets. He was Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering program at KAUST from January 2013 till January 2016.