Masdar Institute’s world-class scientific and technological faculty takes an integrative, multidisciplinary approach to its research and teaching.

During the first five years of Masdar Institute’s establishment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is assisting in the scholarly review of potential faculty members for the Institute. Once appointed, full-time faculty spend up to one year at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working with MIT faculty members on joint research projects - on topics of relevance to Abu Dhabi - and audit graduate level classes that they will eventually teach in Abu Dhabi. 

The year at MIT will: 

• Allow the Masdar Institute faculty members to acquaint themselves with MIT’s high standards of excellence in graduate education
• Assist them in preparing for their own curricula
• Enable them to participate in joint research projects with an MIT counterpart
• Encourage them to develop a strong entrepreneurial spirit, which they will take back with them to Abu Dhabi