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Awards and Grants

Research Award Inquiries and Offers

Any research award inquiries or offers received via email should be checked to verify that they are from an official @nyu.edu email address. For further verification and any questions or concerns about the Research Enhancement Fund, please reach out via nyuad.ref@nyu.edu.

NYUAD researchers secure significant support from local and international sponsors, including: 

UAE Sponsors

  • Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge
  • Abu Dhabi Ports
  • Al Jalila
  • Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre
  • Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences
  • Terry Fox Foundation
  • UAE Space Agency

US / International Sponsors

  • American Chemical Society
  • Centre for Economic Policy
  • Government of Switzerland
  • Hua Xin Chuang Zhi Science Technology, LLC
  • Intel Corporation
  • London School of Economics
  • National Security Agency
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Oxford Policy Management
  • UK Department for International Development
  • US Department of State

Examples of Significant Awards for Faculty Research

PI Sponsor Title Amount (USD)
Pance Naumov The Petroleum Institute and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
 Sustainable and Controlled Inhibition of Asphaltene Precipitation with Non-Covalent Interactions
 $1,808,360
Larry Aber Spencer Foundation The Children Cannot Wait: Advancing Research Methodologies to Improve the Practice of Education in Conflict-Affected Contexts
 $1,000,000
Kirsten Sadler Edepli National Institutes of Health Epigenetic Regulation of Development and Liver Regeneration by UHRF1
 $956,512
Kirsten Sadler Edepli National Institutes of Health The impact of the unfolded protein responses on steatosis $495,000
Ian Dobbs-Dixon National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
 Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres using BART, TEA, and Cloudy-RHD; Theoretical Studies and Observational Implications
 $465,465
David Ludden Henry Luce Foundation Port City Environments in Global Asia $450,000
Joseph Gelfand Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre Collaboration for Astrophysical investigations of Milkyway EvoLution $443,263
Olivier Pauluis Hua Xin Chuang Zhi Sci. Technology LLC Using Advanced Experimental Numerical Approaches To Untangle Rain Enhancement $408,411
Ali Diabat Abu Dhabi Ports Abu Dhabi Ports' berths, cranes, and tugboats scheduling $342,635
Hamidou Tembine Air Force Office of Scientific Research Mean-field-type game theory: foundations, learning and implementation
 $325,427
Joseph Gelfand National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
 Probing the Physics of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Ultra-Relativistic Outflows using Pulsar Wind Nebulae
 $322,217
Samer Madanat UC Berkeley (National Science Foundation) Multi-scale Infrastructure Interactions with Intermittent Disruptions: Coastal Flood Protection, Transportation and Governance Networks
 $311,567
Jonathan Andrew Harris UK Department for International Development Randomized Controlled Trials to Evaluate Strategies to Enhance the Effectiveness of Public Institutions in Developing Countries $262,375
Ozgur Sinanoglu National Security Agency Active Learning Based Learning Modules in Cyber Security $224,353

Internal awards granted by NYU Abu Dhabi and the NYUAD Research Institute are not included here.

NYU Abu Dhabi Research by the Numbers