Academic Council :
Head of Physics 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 Social Sciences and Humanities Division
| Dr. Michel Blay | CNRS, Paris, France |
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Dr. Michel Blay’s research activities focus on issues related to the mathematisation process in physical sciences. Dr. Blay initially concentrated on the emergence, in the late 17th century, of a mathematized theory of the color phenomena, and then expanded his research on the specific part played by mathematics as a dynamic and creative factor. From there, he went on to study how differential calculus was introduced in the science of motion in the late 17th century and early 18th century. His current research work deals with the developments in the fields of optics and hydrodynamics. His interests also span issues regarding the relationships between sciences, technique and society. |
Head of Medicine and Life Sciences Division
| Professor Hubert E. Blum | University of Freiburg, Germany |
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Professor Blum is Full Professor of Medicine at the University
of Freiburg/ Germany, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at
the University Hospital and Clinical Director of the Division of
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology and Infectious
Diseases.
His main research interests are in the field of viral hepatitis B and C, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, his major contributions are in the area of the molecular virology of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), the molecular and immunological pathogenesis of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HCC and the development of in vitro and in vivo models of HBV and HCV infection as well as HCC development. Further, his research unit is very active in developing novel therapeutic and preventive strategies, including molecular therapies for hepatitis B and C by antisense oligonucleotides, ribozymes and dominant negative mutants, HCC therapy or prevention by DNA immunization and the use of HCV pseudoparticles for vaccination against HCV infection. His research activities are documented in more than 400 scientific papers in leading international journals (Science, Mol Cell, J Clin Invest, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, N Engl J Med, Lancet, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, J Hepatol, J Virol and others). His scientific accomplishments have been recognized by many appointments to editorial boards and committees as well as numerous academic honors and awards. |
Head of Mathematics 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 Materials Science 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 Engineering Sciences Division
| Professor Emmanuel Gdoutos | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
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Dr. Emmanuel E. Gdoutos is Professor of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Director of the
Laboratory of Applied Mechanics at the Democritus University
of Thrace, Greece, and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern
University. He is editor-in-chief of "Strain - An
International Journal for Experimental Mechanics," and
President of the European Structural Integrity Society
(ESIS), and the Greek Group of Fracture. He served as
Chairman of the European Association for Experimental
Mechanics (EURASEM). He is Corresponding Member of the
Academy of Athens, the most prestigious academic institute
in Greece, member of the European Academy of Sciences and
Arts, Member of Academia Europaea, Foreign Member of the
Russian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Society of
Experimental Mechanics (SEM), the American Academy of
Mechanics (AAM), the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) and the New York Academy of Sciences
(NYAS), and Honorary Member of the Italian Group of
Fracture. He received the award of merit from the European
Structural Integrity Society and the Theocaris and Lazan
awards from the Society of Experimental Mechanics of USA. He
received M.S. and Ph.D. from the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece. |
Head of Computational and Information Sciences Division
| Professor Michael Griebel | Institut für Numerische Simulation, University of Bonn, Germany |
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Michael Griebel was born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1960. He studied Computer
Science at the Technische Universität München where he received his Diplom in
1985, the Dr. rer. nat. in 1989 and the Habilitation in 1993. Since then he is a
full Professor for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn. He was a
Visiting Professor at the University of California at San Diego, at the
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics of the University of California, Los
Angeles, USA, at the University Paris VII Diderot, France, and at the University
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He also was an International Fellow of
the Australian Research Council (ARCIF). He is presently the Director of the
Institute for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn and the Director of
the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in St.
Augustin. Furthermore, he is the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center
SFB611 “Singular phenomena and scaling in mathematical models” and a member of
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (Cluster of Excellence) at the University of
Bonn where he heads the research area J on “High-dimensional problems and
multi-scale methods“. Michael Griebel works on the fast numerical solution of
partial differential equations discretization techniques, multigrid- and
multilevel methods, high-dimensional problems, the parallelization of numerical
algorithms, high performance computing, visualization, numerical methods for
data analysis and data mining, fluid flow simulations (CFD), and molecular
dynamics simulations (MD), with applications in the Engineering Sciences. He is
the author of seven books and more than 150 articles in international journals,
series- and conference-proceedings and he serves on the editorial board of
Springer′s “Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering” and “Texts
in Computational Science and Engineering”. Furthermore, he edited nine books in
the area of the Computational Sciences and he is the managing editor of the
journal “Numerische Mathematik”. Details can be found on his web page
http://wissrech.ins.uni-bonn.de
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Head of Earth Science and Environmental Sciences Division
| Professor Sven E. Jørgensen | Department of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry Copenhagen Ø, Denmark |
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Prof. S.E.Jorgensen works in the fields of ecological modeling, management of ecosystems, ecosystem theory, ecological engineering and ecological thermodynamics. He is one of the few multidisciplinary researchers that has understood how to integrate several disciplines to solve ecological and environmental problems. Sven Erik Jørgensen has been able to integrate ecology (particularly systems ecology), with management and technological issues (ecological engineering) and thermodynamics and has developed ecological models as an integration tool. |
Head of Chemistry Division
| Professor Herbert Roesky | University of Gottingen, Germany |
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In a career spanning over 40 years, in over 1050 publications
and patents, and four books, Professor Herbert W. Roesky has
established himself as one of the world's leaders in synthetic
inorganic chemistry. He belongs to the generation of chemists
who, in a very real sense, invented modern main-group
organometallic chemistry over the last four decades with unusual
and sustained creativity and originality. By his contribution to
science, inorganic, organometallic and fluorine chemistry in
particular he has influenced as nobody else the development of
Inorganic Chemistry all over the world. Even as an emeritus
professor he is involved very actively in research, and the
quality of this work is always evidenced in the most esteemed
international chemical journals. Besides his encompassing
research his special concern is focused on promoting students
and youngster’s interest in chemistry, which is supported by
several books and a large number of public lectures with
fascinating experiments. Besides his numerous honorary
doctorates he was awarded with the Leibniz Prize, the Grand Prix
de la Maison de la Chimie, the Inorganic Award and the Fluorine
Award of the American Chemical Society. He is member of many
Academies, to mention only a few: l’Académie Française des
Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Romanian Academy
of Sciences, the Argentinian Academy of Sciences.
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