Head of Biology and Life Sciences Division
| Professor Gorm Danscher |
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Gorm Danscher is emeritus professor in Neurobiology at Aarhus University, Denmark and CEO at Berlock ApS. He has in particular studied the biological and pathological consequences of a pool of zinc ions located in the synaptic vesicles of a vast number of glutaminergic terminals in the brain and glutaminergic and GABAérgic terminals in the spinal cord. In 2002 he discovered that macrophages release gold ions from metallic gold implants by a process that he named dissolucytosis. He is now evaluating, experimentally and in clinical trials, whether the bio-released gold ions have local anti-inflammatory characteristics that make metallic gold interesting from a clinical point of view. |
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 | Ancona University, Italy |
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The research activity is devoted to the deformation behaviour and mechanical properties of numerous metals and alloys establishing the relationship with the microstructure. The activity started at the University of Bologna as assistant professor and is continuing as professor at the University of Ancona, supported by grants from national research agencies, industries and EC research projects, establishing over the years collaborative research activities with many leading groups around the world. He has held visiting appointments at numerous universities, including the Concordia University of Montreal in Canada, the University of Trondheim in Norway, the Nihon University in Japan and the Pohang University in South Korea. Currently, he has published more than 250 scientific papers, together with more than 70 different co-authors. Elected Fellow of ASM International, 1995, and member of EAS, 2003. |
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. |