Waleed Ahmad, PhD

Biography

Waleed Ahmad is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the FASTER group at KAUST. His research focuses on heterogeneous catalysts for photocatalytic and photothermal hydrogen sulfide conversion. His interests include defect engineering, oxygen-vacancy chemistry, metal–support interactions, and catalytic materials for sustainable chemical transformations.

He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Korea, in 2023. Before joining KAUST, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, studying defect-engineered titanium dioxide and supported noble-metal catalysts.

Research projects

• H2S Photo-Thermal Removal

Education

• 2023: Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology (UST), Republic of Korea
• 2016: MS Environmental Engineering,  National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
• 2012: B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), Pakistan