Turki Nabieh Baroud is the founding chairman of the Materials Science and Engineering department at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He also is a champion for several companies at KFUPM, where he is responsible for unifying engagement and forging a sustainable and more meaningful relationship between KFUPM and companies such as SABIC, DOW, BASF, and Sadara. He obtained his undergraduate degree (2010) and his M.Sc. (2012) in Mechanical Engineering from KFUPM. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Emmanuel Giannelis, Vice President for Research and Innovation at Cornell University. His research focus is on pushing the boundaries of science and technology with newly designed materials for clean water and sustainability. A special focus is placed on developing porous functionalized membranes for desalination and water treatment (i.e., membrane distillation, capacitive deionization) and non-precious electrocatalysts for renewable energy and CO2 conversion. His work has been published in top-tier journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Desalination, Carbon, Journal of Power Sources, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. In less than 3 years after finishing his Ph.D, he served as PI/Co-PI on many industrial research grants with a total amount of around 1 million, and his group shared around 600k.