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Just bits and pieces of data about Raed Bkayrat, Ghassan Jobbour, and KAUST
The pictures on Brainstorming for Solar are worth taking a look at. It looks like thin film to me.

Raed Bkayrat got his MS in 1994 and his PhD in 1998 at ASU

http://www.meed.com/supplements/2009/kaust/kausts-collaboration-programme-reaching-out-to-enterprise
Case study: Acxiom Corporation
Global marketing services group Acxiom Corporation became a founding member of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology’s (Kaust’s) industrial collaboration programme.
Membership of the programme will grant Acxiom’s Middle East and North Africa (Mena) division – whose regional corporate headquarters is in Jeddah – access to the university’s global collaborative research network, as well as a seat on the Kaust industry advisory board and strategic access to Kaust’s start-ups and seed funding programme. Seed money is typically used to pay for the preliminary operations of a new company, such as market research and product development.
“We may be able to grant intellectual property rights if it leads to the establishment of a business”
Raed Bkayrat, industrial collaboration programme
Bkayrat says companies that have joined the collaboration programme have an opportunity to join pilot project initiatives that have the potential to become a commercial success, and privileged access to information about the Kaust seed fund grant programme.
Issues surrounding intellectual property are an obvious priority for corporate members, who want to gain rights to promising pilot projects at an early stage. Kaust pursues an industry-friendly intellectual property strategy, says Bkayrat.
“The level of openness depends on the benefit this operation or transaction would bring to the region, and to Saudi Arabia,” he says. “We may be able to grant intellectual property rights if this leads to the establishment of a manufacturing or technology business in the kingdom – for example,
http://www.jobsataramco.eu/67/brainstorming-on-solar-energy.htm

Brainstorming on Solar Energy
THUWAL, January 27, 2010 - The world’s biggest energy provider and the world’s newest research university are collaborating on the future of energy.

Saudi Aramco Engineering Services professionals met recently with King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) leaders to brainstorm over research into energy conservation and solar energy
The company was represented by Ahmed M. Al-Zahrani and Ali H. Al-Qahtani of the Process and Control Systems Department (P&CSD), and Ali M. Al-Qahtani and Richard A. Horner of the Research and Development Center (R&DC).
The visitors saw KAUST’s state-of-the-art facilities — the Shaheen Supercomputer; the 3D Visualization Center; and the Nanofabrication, Imaging and Characterization Laboratories. Then, Solar and Alternative Energy Science and Engineering Research Center director Dr. Ghassan Jabbour explained the university’s long-term basic research-and-development interests in the field of solar and alternative energy.
Also on hand for KAUST were business manager Dr. Janne Virtapohja and Economic Development senior management members Omar Abdulhaid, Raed Bkayrat, Talal Bakri and Sami Obaid.
KAUST representatives explained their research road map, which focuses on developing low-cost solar energy solutions based on thin-film materials and advanced material science. That view fits well with Saudi Aramco’s own solar energy outlook, which was explained by Ali H. Al-Qahtani.
Company participants explained how solar energy might help reduce domestic consumption of oil and gas, allowing more hydrocarbons to be exported, and benefit the Kingdom’s fuel flexibility.

A number of potential points of collaboration were identified for further investigation. They included a techno-economic appraisal model, the performance of commercial solar panels, assessing domestic business opportunities, and developing low-cost solar technology for specific Kingdom challenges such as cooling, desalination and pumping.
To expedite their collaboration, KAUST and Saudi Aramco will evaluate and develop a solar energy industry program at the Thuwal campus in the planned Economic Development Park. Follow-up meetings were set for early this year to map out future cooperation in solar energy R&D, education, and technology evaluation and development.
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