KAUST was successfully represented at the Young Professional Competition at the International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) in Doha in 2014. The young professional competition is a competition for graduate students and professionals with less than 5 years of work experience to showcase their research results that were evaluated by a panel of judges from Qatar Petroleum, MaerskOil, and so forth. Klemens Katterbauer, PhD Candidate in Earth Science & Engineering under supervision of I. Hoteit and S. Sun, successfully competed against 12 other participants from the oil and gas industry, after having qualified from a pool of more than 60 applicants. Showcasing his research and the practical relevance, Klemens attained the 2nd place in the competition winning a tablet and being amongst the only Saudi representative at the competition
