Propagate Faculty Chairs

Preeminent Academics Break New Ground

The King’s dream of building a new House of Wisdom has been realized. KAUST is an academic institution which rekindles the virtue of learning that marked the Arab and Muslim worlds in earlier times.

Professorial Chairs will strengthen KAUST’s ability to attract, retain and support world-class researchers and teachers. To be awarded a Chair is a great distinction granted by KAUST to outstanding and innovative researchers whose accomplishments have made groundbreaking impacts in their field.

Your Living Gift towards a professorial Chair will perpetuate the King’s dream.


Types & Nature of Chairs

KAUST offers two types of chairs:

  Chairs: Your donation, for five years, will enable an academic with a stellar research record to advance his/her research at KAUST while, at the same time, influencing and motivating scholars and other faculty members to produce ground-breaking results.
 
  Memorial Chairs: The annual income from your donation of an endowment or waqf will be used to fund a Chair in perpetuity. The dream will live on through the work of the researcher you enable with your donation.

The value of a Chair is reflected in a hierarchy of titles of special merit:

  • President’s Chair
  • KAUST Chair
  • Research Center Chair

KAUST aspires to establish chairs in the areas that are of the greatest concern to the future of our region and the world. Examples of chairs under consideration are:

  • Synthetic Biology
  • High Performance Computing
  • Epigenetics
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Coral Reef Bleaching & Acidification
  • Scientific Visualization
  • Life in Extreme Environments
  • Fluid and Solid Earth Oceanography
  • Air and Water Quality
  • Solar Energy
  • Hydrocarbon Separation

Donor Recognition

Chairs may be named by donors, in their own name or the name of others whom they wish to honor provided they support the University vision, strategy, and academic objectives.

By supporting outstanding faculty and their research infrastructure, your Living Gift will play a significant role in ground-breaking discoveries that tackle the challenges of our time.