Head of Biology and Life Sciences Division
| Professor Gorm Danscher |
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Gorm Danscher is professor in Neurobiology. He became DVM at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen in 1967 and DMSc at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University Aarhus in 1976. His doctoral thesis “Heavy metals in the hippocampal region: Some aspects of localization, function and content with special emphasis on the effect of chelating agents” was instrumental to his lifelong studies of heavy metals in the brain. In particular research in biological and pathological consequences of a pool of zinc ions located in the synaptic vesicles of a vast number of glutaminergic terminals in telencephalic structures has been focused on. Recently he has proved that gold ions are released from metallic gold implants by a process that coined dissolucytosis. He is now analyzing whether metallic gold can release sufficiently high levels of gold ions to cause local anti-inflammatory effects. |
Head of Physics and Earth Sciences Division
| Professor Bernard Barbara | NEEL Institute, Grenoble, France |
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Bernard Barbara is Director of Research at the Neel Institute, Grenoble (CNRS). All along his career he initiated original or pioneering works on different subjects of solid state physics, including magnetism. In 2002, he won with his colleagues the “2002-Agilent Technologies Euro-Physics Prize” (the most prestigious honor given by the European Physical Society). He was elected at the European Academy of Sciences in 2003. He is co-author of almost 350 scientific papers and is very often invited to international meetings and conferences (about 100 fulfilled invitations). He is continuously requested by best scientific journals, universities, foundations, for scientific reports. He also serves as an expert to the French Ministry of Research and New Technologies. |
Head of Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division
| Professor Philippe G. Ciarlet | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) / City University of Hong Kong |
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Philippe G. Ciarlet was Professor at the University Pierre et
Marie Curie (Paris) till 2002, and Head of Laboratory of
Numerical Analysis in the same University. Among other positions, he was also Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris). Since 2002 he is Chair Professor at the City University of Hong-Kong. He is member of Academia Europaea, French Academy of Sciences, and various national and international Academies. He received many distinctions (Poncelet Prize, Grand Prize [Prix Jaffe], Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, French Legion of Honor, etc )and is Doctor Honoris Causa of several Universities. |
Head of Social Division
| Professor Claude Imbert | Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France) |
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Professor Imbert is Doctor in philosophy, specialized in
epistemology , now concerned with problems pervading social
sciences from cognition to anthropology. Emerita Professor at
l'Ecole Normale Superieure-Ulm, where she has been head of the
philosophy Department, now codirector of a seminar (Art,
creation , cognition). She also teaches at Fudan University (Shangaï) and Beijing (since 2002), is Associate professor at Eichstätt Universität, codirector of a research programme at Durham University - Institute of High studies, and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). Publications on history of logic and anthropology (4 books and more than 100 papers in scientific journals, or chapters in collective books). Prix de l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2000),Commandeur dans l’Ordre des palmes académiques (2002) Officier de la Légion d’honneur (2006). |
Head of Engineering and Material Sciences Division
| Professor Enrico Evangelista |
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Head of Chemistry Division
| Professor Herbert Roesky | University of Gottingen, Germany |
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Professor Roesky made outstanding contributions to inorganic
chemistry, catalysis, and materials science. He is well-known
both through his scientific publication (above 700 papers in
internationally reputed journals) and his Science Education
experiments for everybody. His research group (which contains approximately 30 members) is made up of undergraduate, graduate students, post-docs, and scientists coming from all over the world. Prof. Roesky is a Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and French Academy of Sciences. |
