Born in Huesca (Spain) in 1977, Jorge received his MSc. in Chemistry in 2002 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2006, both at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He was post-doc (2006 to 2009), Assistant Professor (2010 to 2012), Associate Professor (2012 to 2014) and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor (2014 – 2017) of Catalysis Engineering at TUDelft (NL). Since 2017 he is Professor and Director at the KAUST Catalysis Center.

Gascon has co-authored over 300 scientific articles and 15 patents. He is a Clarivate Analytics highly cited researcher (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). For more information: https://advcm.kaust.edu.sa/