Jorge Gascon

Jorge Gascon (born December 1, 1977) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, director of the KAUST Catalysis Center.

Applications comprise membrane and adsorbent development, multifunctional catalysis, Fischer Tropsch Synthesis, methanol to olefins, photo- and electro-catalysis.

He has been the recipient of the prestigious VENI (2010), VIDI (2013) and ERC Starting (2013) personal grants and of the 2013 ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award.

Demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

[9] Professor Gascon was named Doctor Honoris Causa by La Universidad de Alicante in 2021.