Husam Alshareef, FMRS

Husam Alshareef is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is also the Founding Director of the newly established Center of Excellence in Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies (CREST) at KAUST. He obtained his Ph.D. at NC State University in 1996, followed by a post-doctoral Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories, USA. He spent eleven years in the semiconductor industry, where he implemented processes in volume production for chip manufacturing at Micron Technology and Texas Instruments. He joined KAUST in 2009, where he initiated an active research group focusing on the development of nanoscale materials for electronic and energy devices. He was a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science for several years. He has published 640 journal publications, 100 conference publications, and has been issued 80 patents. His work has been recognized by over 25 awards, including the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award, two Dow Sustainability Awards, the Kuwait Prize for Sustainable and Clean Technologies, and the KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a Fellow of several prestigious societies, including the Materials Research Society (MRS), American Physical Society (APS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Institute of Physics (IoP), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IMMM). He was Co-Chair of the MRS Fall Meeting in 2014.