​One ​year after the start of the group at KAUST, the first experimental publication fully produced at KCC has been published in ACS Catalysis. The paper deals with a new and exciting research topic in the group, the selective activation of carbon dioxide to useful chemical products: Metal Organic Framework derived iron catalysts for the direct hydrogenation of CO2 to short chain olefins. ACS Catal. (2018). A. Ramirez, L. Gevers, A. Bavykina, S. Ould-Chikh and J. Gascon​​