Professor Huang is an Associate Vice President for Research and a Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST.

Kuo-Wei Huang received his B.S. from National Taiwan University as a Yuan T. Lee Fellow and his Ph.D. from Stanford University as a Regina Casper Fellow. Before joining KAUST as a founding faculty member, he had been an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The research interests of his group include CO2 utilization, hydrogen storage, small molecule activation (particularly on the PN3(P) ligand platform his group has developed and pioneered), and computational and kinetic mechanistic studies of catalysis. He was recently highlighted in “Pioneers and Influencers in Organometallic Chemistry” by Organometallics in 2020.