KAUST's world-class faculty work with University leadership to support the institution's talented, international students and researchers, as well as guide the development of the University and surrounding community.       Tariq A. Alkhalifa, Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, USA       Imaging and velocity model building for exploring seismic data with special emphasis on media that exhibit anisotropic behavior of wave propagation. tariq.alkhalifah@kaust.edu.sa       Victor Manuel Calo, Ph.D., Stanford University, USA       Computational aspects of geometrical modeling, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, phase separation, fluid-structure interaction, geomechanics, and high-performance computing. victor.calo@kaust.edu.sa       Ibrahim Hoteit, Ph.D., University Joseph Fourier, France       Theoretical developments of advanced data assimilation methods for the estimation of the state of large dimensional nonlinear systems. He is also involved in the development of oceanic and atmospheric data assimilation systems. ibrahim.hoteit@kaust.edu.sa       Sigurjon Jonsson, Ph.D., Stanford University, USA       The use of satellite geodesy, primarily satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) and GPS, to study areas threatened by major earthquakes or volcanic activity. He uses these crustal deformation measurements, along with modeling, to retrieve information about subsurface geophysical processes such as earthquake fault slip, post seismic relaxation, and magma accumulation. sigurjon.jonsson@kaust.edu.sa       Martin Mai, Ph.D., Stanford University, USA       The physics of earthquakes and the resulting complexity of earthquake phenomena, as seen, for instance, through earthquake-source imaging, dynamic rupture modeling, and numerical simulation of the long-term evolution of faults and related earthquake characteristics. His works extends all the way to ground-motion simulation for seismic-hazard and earthquake-engineering applications. martin.mai@kaust.edu.sa       Gerard Thomas Schuster, Ph.D., Columbia University, USA       Seismic imaging applications in engineering, earthquake hazard mitigation, and exploration geophysics. He is the coordinator of the KAUST seismic field laboratory that consists of more than 600 channels of recording geophone stations linked by a state-of-the-art digital network. He is actively pursuing the theoretical and practical development of seismic interferometry. gerard.schuster@kaust.edu.sa       Georgiy Stenchikov, Ph.D., Moscow Physical Technical Institute, Russia       Multi-scale modeling of environmental processes and numerical methods; global climate change, climate downscaling, atmospheric convection; assessment of anthropogenic impacts and geoengineering, air-sea interaction, evaluating environmental consequences of catastrophic events like volcanic eruptions, nuclear explosions, forest and urban fires; and air pollution, transport of aerosols, chemically and optically active atmospheric tracers, their radiative forcing and effect on climate. georgiy.stenchikov@kaust.edu.sa       Shuyu Sun, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, USA       Computational methods for a variety of engineering and scientific applications. His research includes the modeling and simulation of single-phase flow, multi-phase flow and reactive transport in porous media, as well as the numerical analysis of relevant algorithms. shuyu.sun@kaust.edu.sa     © 2009 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved