Scientific Committe :
Please note that this page is in preparationDivision : Chemistry
Professor Santiago Alvarez
| Dept. Quimica Inorganica Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
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Professor Santiago Alvarez holds a Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the
University of Barcelona. He has carried out theoretical research on bonding,
stereochemistry and magnetic properties of transition metal compounds. In recent
years ha has been involved in the application of shape and symmetry measures to
the study of stereochemistry and structure-property relationships. He is also
active in promoting exploration of the frontiers between chemistry and
humanistic culture through assay papers and the NoSIC (Not Strictly Inorganic
Chemistry) meetings. March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor Didier Astruc
| University of Bordeaux 1, France |
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Didier Astruc (born in Versailles)
did his Ph. D. in Rennes with Prof. R. Dabard and was a NATO
post-doc at MIT with Prof. R. R. Schrock. He has been a
professor at University Bordeaux 1 since 1983, and occupies
the Supramolecular Organometallic Chemistry Chair at the
Institut Universitaire de France since 1995. He has been
known for his concept of electron reservoir and applications
to synthesis, catalysis, electrochemistry and molecular
batteries and the development, in the late 1990’s, of early
organometallic iteration reactions based on proton
reservoirs that had led to giant dendrimers and
gold-nanoparticle-cored dendrimers. His group now searches
applications as green catalysts, redox sensors and in
nanomedicine. He authored inter alia the book “Electron
Transfer and Radical Processes in Transition-Metal
Chemistry” prefaced by 1983 Nobel Laureate Henry Taube (VCH,
1995) and of the standard textbook “Organometallic Chemistry
and Catalysis” (Springer, 2007).
March 2009 - March 2012
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Professor Pierre Braunstein
| University of Louis Pasteur, France |
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Pierre Braunstein is Director of
Research with the CNRS and the Director of the Coordination
Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Strasbourg
(Institute of Chemistry, UMR 7177 CNRS). His main research
interests concern the inorganic and organometallic chemistry
of the transition and main group elements where he has
(co)authored over 400 scientific publications and review
articles. He has co-edited, with L. A. Oro and P. R.
Raithby, the 3 volumes book “Metal Clusters in Chemistry”
(Wiley-VCH, 1999). He is also a member of the French
Académie des Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Chemistry. March 2009 - March
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Professor J. Derek Woollins
| Dept of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK |
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Professor Derek Woollins holds the
Chair of Synthetic Chemistry and is Head of the School of
Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. He is deputy
director of EaStChem (the joint research school of Edinburgh
and St Andrews University Chemistry Depts). Professor
Woollins has developed numerous novel main group molecules
and heterocycles, including S-N and Se-N systems. In recent
years his work has included the development of new P-Se
systems as reagents for selenation of organic molecules; the
most successful of these systems is now known as Woollins'
reagent.
March 2009 - March 2012Professor Woollins has published ca. 400 research articles and two books 'Non Metal Rings Cages and Clusters' and the widely used 'Inorganic Experiments' which is now entering a third edition. |
Division : Computational and Information Sciences
Professor Hans Peter Langtangen
| Center for Biomedical Computing, Simula Research Laboratory, and Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway |
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Introduction text by Prof. Langtangen
March 2010 - March 2013 |
Professor Yvon Maday
| Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France |
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Introduction text by Prof. Maday March 2010 - March 2013 |
Professor Alfio Quarteroni
| EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
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Introduction text by Prof. Quarteroni
May 2010 - May 2013 |
Professor Endre Sulď
| Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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Introduction text by Prof. Endre Sulď
May 2010 - May 2013 |
Division : Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences
Professor Ni Bin Chang
| University of Central Florida (UCF), USA |
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Dr. Ni-Bin Chang received his Master’s and Ph.D. degree from Cornell University
in 1989 and 1991, respectively. His area of expertise is environmental resources
management, sustainable systems engineering, environmental systems modeling,
environmental cyberinfrastructure and remote sensing, environmental informatics,
and industrial ecology. His current research lies on the interfaces between
these topics leading toward achieving the overarching goal of sustainability in
the nexus of natural resources management, technology integration, ecosystem
conservation, risk assessment, and engineering optimization. He owns those
distinctions which are the selectively awarded titles, such as the Board
Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE), Diplomat of Water Resources Engineer
(DWRE), Certificate of Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED),
Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and member of the European
Academy of Sciences (EAS).He has applied the position of Editor-in-chief of the
Annal of the EAS. He has edited, authored and co-authored over 132 peer-reviewed
journal articles, 7 books, 7 special issues of academic journals, 7 book
chapters and 122 conference papers.He is currently an editorial board member, an
editor or an associate editor of 21 international journals in the area of earth
sciences, systems engineering, and sustainability sciences. March 2009 -
March 2012 |
Professor Enzo Tiezzi
| University of Siena, Italy |
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Professor Tiezzi has a Degree in
Chemistry. He is a Postdoctoral Research associate at
Washington University (U.S.A) (1966-1967), at the Department
of Physics ( with Prof. S.Weissman) and at the Department of
Biology (with Prof. B.Commoner). Full Professor of Physical
Chemistry from 1979 at the University of Siena. His
experience in Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, NMR
spectroscopy and Ecological Modelling was acquired in the
course of university appointments in Siena, Florence,
Cagliari and U.S.A. (Washington University). Director of the
Department of Chemistry of the University of Siena, from
beginning till 1987. In 1987 he delivered the Inaugural
Lecture of the Opening of the 746th Academic Year of the
University of Siena. He is author of over 300 scientific
publications and has been invited to deliver lectures at
many international meetings. In 1998 the International
Meeting "Structures, Relations and complexity" has been
organized to celebrate his academic activity, with the
participation of the Nobel Prize winners I.Prigogine and
M.Gell-Mann and S.J.Gould. He is focal point of the IGBP for
Italy. He is in the Editorial Board of Ecological Modelling.
March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor Ioannes Tsekos
| Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Ioannes Tsekos is a Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki. He was a Full Professor of Botany
and Director of the Botany Department from 1975 till 2004;
1982-1984 and 1995-1997 Chairman of the Biological School,
Aristotle University, 1990-1991 Visiting Scholar, University of
Texas at Austin (USA); five years of research work at the
Universities of Hamburg, Heidelberg (Germany) and Austin (USA)
on scholarship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
the Fulbright Foundation and the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst (DAAD). He is the author of 7 books on Botany
and 120 original scientific papers on cell physiology, ecology
of marine algae, the structure and function of subcellular
components and particularly of cell membranes which have been
published in different international journals with referees,
such as Protoplasma, Journal of Cell Science, Plant Systematic
and Evolution, Planta, New Phytologist, etc. His work has been
positively commented by the international scientific community
(900 references in books and original research papers). Many
electron microscopy photographs taken from various papers of his
have been published in journals and books of other authors.
March 2009 - March 2012 |
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Division : Engineering
Professor Professor Alberto Carpinteri
| Chair of Structural Mechanics Politechnico di Torino |
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Professor Alberto Carpinteri is the
Chair of Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Torino
(Italy), since 1986, and Director of the Laboratory of
Fracture Mechanics. He has held different responsabilities
during this period, among which Head of the Department of
Structural Engineering (1989-1995), and Founding Member and
Director of the Post-graduate School in Structural
Engineering (1990-). He has been a Visiting Scientist at
Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA (1982-1983), and a
Member of different Academies: European Academy of Sciences
(2009-), Russian Academy of Engineering (2009-), American
Academy of Mechanics (2003-), and Fellow of the Turin
Academy of Sciences (2005-). Prof.Carpinteri is Deputy and
Acting President of the National Research Institute of
Metrology in Italy (INRIM), since 2006, and President of the
International Congress on Fracture, ICF (2009-2013). He has
also been President of the European Structural Integrity
Society, ESIS (2002-2006), the International Association of
Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures,
IA-FraMCoS (2004-2007), and the Italian Group of Fracture,
IGF (1998-2005). He is a Member of the Congress Committee of
the International Union of Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, IUTAM (2004-2012), a Member of the Editorial
Board of eight international journals, and the author of
over 600 publications, of which more than 250 are papers in
refereed international journals and 40 are books.
Prof.Carpinteri received numerous Honours and Awards: the
Robert L'Hermite Medal from RILEM (1982), the Japan Society
of Mechanical Engineers Medal (1993), the Honorary
Professorship from the Nanjing Architectural and Civil
Engineering Institute, China (1996), and from the Albert
Schweitzer University, Geneva, Switzerland (2000), the
Wessex Institute of Technology Eminent Scientist Medal, UK
(2000), the Griffith Medal from ESIS (2008), the inclusion
in the "Top 100 Scientists" list of the International
Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK (2009), and the ICF
Honorary Fellowship Medal (2009). March 2010 - March
2013 |
Professor Isaac M. Daniel
| Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA |
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Professor Daniel is the Walter P.
Murphy Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and
Director of the Center for Intelligent Processing of
Composites at Northwestern University. He studied at the
National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the
Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His research
encompasses many areas of mechanics and materials with
emphasis on experimental mechanics and composite materials.
In the latter, he has worked on all aspects of the area
including processing, micromechanics, characterization,
fracture and damage mechanics, dynamic behavior,
nondestructive evaluation and life prediction. He has
pioneered test methods for characterization of polymer,
ceramic and metal matrix composites. In recent years he has
been working on processing, characterization and modeling of
nanocomposites. He has four patents. He has lectured at home
and abroad; is the author of over 375 publications and
eleven chapters of books; and co-author of a widely used
textbook entitled "Engineering Mechanics of Composite
Materials," now in its second edition. March 2010 -
March 2013 |
Professor Robert V. Goldstein
| Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
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Robert Goldstein is Head of
Laboratory on Mechanics of Strength and Fracture of
Materials and Structures at the A.Yu. Ishlinsky Institute
for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He is also Professor in Physics
and Soros Professor in Mathematics, Head of the Chair on
Mechanics and Physics of Technological Processes in the K.E.
Tsialkovsky State Technological University – “MATI”. His
research activities have been essentially focused on
mechanics of solids and its engineering applications,
including elasticity, fracture mechanics, mechanics of
materials, mechanics of large scale structures and
components micro- and nanoelectronics, mechanics of ice and
ice cover, rock mechanics International scientific
activities: Invited Scientist at: University of Stuttgart,
Germany; University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI),
France; University of Helsinki, Finland; Politecnico di
Torino, Italy; Clarkson University, Potsdam, USA; Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Editorial duties:
Member of Editorial Board of 6 Scientific Journals,
including the Int. J. of Fracture (1996); the Fatigue and
Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures. An Int. J.
(1997). Executive secretary, the Journal of the Russian
Academy of Sciences “Mechanics of Solids” (2006). Edited
books and Special Issues of Int. Scientific Journals - 17
Awards: Honored scientist of the Russian federation (2008);
State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and
Techniques (2000); Order of Honor (1999); Medal “For Labor
Powers” (1986) Honours, Fellowships, Membership of
Professional Societies: Robert Goldstein was elected as
Corresponding Member of the Russian Ac. of Sci. (2008) and
as Fellow Member of the European Ac. of Sci. (2009).
Vice-President, International Congress on Fracture
(2005-2009); Scientific Secretary, Scientific Council on
Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004); Member,
Executive Committee, International Congress on Fracture
(2001); Member, Executive Committee, The European Structural
Integrity Society (ESIS) (1997); Russian National Committee
on the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1995); Honorary
Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture (1993);
Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (1991);
Int. Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and
Mathematics (1990); Deputy - Head of the All-Union (now
Russian) Scientific Council of Academy of Sciences on
Strength and Plasticity (1985)
March 2010 - March 2013 |
Professor Vitauts Tamuzs
| Institute of Polymer Mechanics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia |
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Vitauts Tamuzs is Professor of
Mechanics at the University of Latvia and head of laboratory
in the Institute of Polymer Mechanics LU. He is
editor-in-chief of journal "Mechanics of Composite
Materials".
March 2009 - March 2012
He is President of Latvian National Committee for Mechanics since 1992. Expert in mechanics of solids, fracture mechanics, mechanics of composites.Member of Latvian Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. |
Division : Materials Science
Professor Yves Bréchet
| Technical University of Grenoble INPG, France |
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Born in 1961 in France, Europe. Did his studies in Paris (Ecole Polytechnique)
then his PhD and Habilitation in Grenoble. His research activities are in the
field of Modelling in in physical and mechanical metallurgy. He has been
interested in phase transformation, plasticity and fracture, materials science
of biological systems. In collaboration with M.Ashby he has worked on Materials
Selection methods and development of hybrid materials. He has published more
than 500 papers, and two books. March 2010 - March 2013 He is currently Professor in Materials Science in The Technical University of Grenoble INP, Adjunct professor at McMaster University, Canada and Senior Research Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France. |
Professor Frantisek Chmelik
| Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Dr. Frantisek Chmelik is Associate
Professor and Deputy Chairman at Department of Physics of
Materials, Charles University Prague. In 1999-2000 and in
2004, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research
Fellowship in Germany. In 2000-2008 he was chairman of the
Department of Physics of Materials (formerly Department of
Metal Physics) at the Charles University. He is also a
member of Editorial Board of the journal Materials Science &
Engineering A and Chairman of the Conference Series ISPMA
(International Symposium on Physics of Materials) held every
three years in Prague. Prof. Chmelik is involved in
organizing postgraduate studies at Charles University and
serves as the head of PhD Board in branch Physics of
Condensed Matter and Materials Research. The classwork of
Prof. Chmelik comprises general physics, physics of
condensed matter, and physics of materials and acoustics.
His research interests are related to physical and
mechanical properties, and microstructure of structural
materials. He is also interested in various aspects of
crystalline plasticity and acoustic methods, mainly the
acoustic emission technique. In this field he published more
than 100 papers in reviewed journals and proceedings.
March 2009 - March 2012
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Professor Herbert Gleiter
| Institute of Nanotechnology , Karlsruhe, Germany |
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Herbert Gleiter is a Professor at the Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT)
which he headed for four years as a member of the Executive Board. About three
decades ago, he pioneered a new class of materials consisting of nanometer-sized
crystals or glassy regions. These nanostuctured materials consitute today one of
the fastest growing areas of Materials Science. He is a member of six Academies
and has received numerous national as well as international prizes and awards.
In 2009 he was one of the receipients of the
Blaise Pascal Medal of EAS.
March 2010 - March 2013 |
Professor Terence G. Langdon
| School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK | University of Southern California, USA |
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Professor Terence Langdon received the Blaise Pascal Medal in recognition of his
outstanding achievements and pioneering research in the processing of
ultrafine-grained metals by severe plastic deformation and for fundamental
investigations into the properties of materials processed by equal-channel
angular pressing and, more recently, high-pressure torsion. Currently, Prof.
Langdon has published more than 500 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals
with more than 300 different co-authors. His publications have received over
18,000 citations. In 2008 he was one of the receipients of the
Blaise Pascal Medal of EAS. March 2009 - March 2012 |
Division : Mathematics
Professor Viorel Barbu
| “Al.I. Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania |
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Professor Viorel BARBU is Professor
of Mathematics at the "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iasi, since
1980. He was Rector (President) of the University of Iasi
(1981-1989) and Vice President of the Romanian Academy
(1998-2002) ; he is Director of Institute of Mathematics of
Romanian Academy in Iasi, since 1990 , and President of
Romanian Academy Iasi Branch (since 2001).
March 2009 - March 2012 His research activity is in the fields of partial differential equations, infinite dimensional equations and control theory. His works have been quoted and used by more than 1500 mathematicians in more than 2500 papers. |
Professor George V. Jaiani
| Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi , Georgia |
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George V. Jaiani Graduated from the
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) for
Mathematics and Mechanics, January 1968, Diploma with
Honours in Mechanics. He received his PhD (Candidate of
Sci.) in Mechanics of Deformable Bodies at the Razmadze
Institute of Mathematics of the Georgian Academy of
Sciences, Scientific Advisor Ilia Vekua (1974) and his DSc
in Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics at the
Razmadze Institute of Mathematics of the Georgian Academy of
Sciences (1986). He is Director of the I.Vekua Institute of
Applied Mathematics of TSU and a professor at the department
of Mathematics of TSU. His research interests include
partial differential equations, mathematical modelling and
continuum mechanics. He is author more than hundred papers.
He has also written four monographs. March 2009 - March
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Professor Ta-Tsien Li(Da-Qian Li)
| Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
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Professor of Fudan University(1980-).
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(1995-). Fellow of
the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World(1997-).
Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences(2005-).
Member of the European Academy of Sciences(2007-). Foreign
Member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences(2008-).
Professor Li is now the Co-Director of the Institut
Sino-Francais de Mathematiques Appliquees(ISFMA) since 1998,
the Honorary President of the China Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics(CSIAM) since 2008 and the
Officer-at-large of the International Council for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics(ICIAM) since 2003. He was a visiting
scholar at College de France, Paris, France, from January
1979 to April 1981, the Dean of the Graduate School of Fudan
University from 1991 to 1999, the Vice-Presidant of the
Chinese Mathematical Society from 1996 to 2003, the
Vice-President of the Shanghai Association for Science and
Technology from 1996 to 2006 and the President of the CSIAM
from 2000 to 2008. Professor Li, whose research fields
include partial differential equations, control theory and
their applications, has published more than 200 papers and
18 monograghs and textbooks. March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor Michel Chipot
| University of Zurich Angewandte Mathematik, Switzerland |
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Since 1995, Michel Chipot has been a
professor at the University of Zurich. He graduated in 1981
(thčse d' état) at the University of Paris VI under the
supervision of H. Brezis. His resarch interests in nonlinear
analysis include, variational inequalities, elliptic
equations and systems, parabolic equations, calculus of
variations, numerical methods. He has been the organiser of
more than 40 international meetings. Among them the Metz
Days, the European Conferences on Elliptic and Parabolic
Problems of which he is also the founder. He is member of
the editorial board of 25 journals. He is the editor of 17
books of proceedings and editor of the handbook of
differential equation (Stationary Partial Differential
Equations, 6 Volumes) and the author of more than 150
articles and 5 books.
May 2010 - May 2013 |
Division : Medicine and Life Sciences
Professor Anne Dell
| Imperial College London, UK |
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Anne Dell obtained her BSc in Chemistry from the University of Western Australia
and her PhD in Biopolymer Mass Spectrometry in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently she
was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biochemistry Department, Imperial College
London before taking up a lectureship in the same department in 1979. She was
promoted to a Personal Chair in 1991, was Head of the Department of Biochemistry
(1999 -2001), and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. Her
research focuses on the development of ultra-high sensitivity mass spectrometric
strategies and their application to structural problems in the field of
glycobiology. A key objective is to provide the structural underpinning for
international collaborative programmes of research which are aimed at defining
the biological roles that carbohydrates play in health and disease.
March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor Krister Holmberg
| Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
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Krister Holmberg was born and brought up in Göteborg, Sweden. He graduated with
a MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in
1970 and continued studies towards a PhD degree at the same university. He did
his thesis work in organic chemistry, studying various aspects of the
Diels-Alder reaction under the supervision of Professor Erich Adler. After
having completed his PhD in 1974 he moved to Helsingborg to work as a researcher
at Leo, a pharmaceutical company. At the end of 1976 he moved to Berol Kemi, a
major Swedish chemical company, where he worked as R&D until 1991, first
at Berol Kemi's division for paint binders, then at Eka Kemi and then back at
Berol Kemi, now as Research Director. Between 1984 and 1991 he was Adjunct
Professor of biotechnological surface chemistry at the university. In 1991
Krister Holmberg was offered a position as Director of the Institute for Surface
Chemistry (YKI) in Stockholm, Sweden. Krister Holmberg moved to Chalmers
University of Technology in 1998 to become Professor of Surface Chemistry. Since
2003 he is also the Dean of Chemical and Biological Engineering. In recent years
Krister Holmberg has combined organic and bioorganic synthesis with
nanomaterials. Krister Holmberg has published over 230 research papers, he is
the author or editor of six books and he is the inventor or coinventor of 36
patents. March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor Dino Moras
| Director of IGBMC - laboratoire de Biologie et Génomique Structurales - |
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Dino Moras, Research Director at the
CNRS, graduated in chemistry at the U. Louis Pasteur in
Strasbourg where he prepared his Ph.D. His main scientific
contributions are related to the transfer of genetic
information. March 2009 - March 2012 1) Translation of the genetic code: (i) the partition of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) in two classes, based on structural and functional correlations, (ii) the first structure determination of a class II complex (1990) and the elucidation of the mechanism of aminoacylation in the aspartic acid system, (iii) the mechanisms of editing for class II aaRSs (2000). 2) Transcription regulation by nuclear hormone receptors: The first crystal structures of the ligand binding domains of two nuclear receptors of retinoids (RXR and RAR) in their apo and liganded form respectively (1995) followed by the structure of NR of vitamin D (2000) and several orphan receptors, together with the functional correlations (i.e. mode of action of ligands). |
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Division : Physics
Professor Charles J. Joachain
| Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
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Born in Brussels on May 9, 1937,
Professor Charles J. Joachain obtained his Ph.D. in Physics
in 1963 at the
ULB. From 1964 to 1965 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow
of the Belgian American Educational Foundation at the
University of California in Berkeley and the Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory, and from 1965 to 1966 a Research
Physicist at these institutions. At the
ULB
he was appointed chargé de cours associé in 1965, chargé de
cours in 1968, professeur extraordinaire in 1971 and
professeur ordinaire in 1978. He was chairman of the
Department of Physics in 1980 and 1981. He was also
appointed professor at the
UCL in 1984. In 2002, he became professeur ordinaire
émérite at the
ULB and professeur honoraire at the
UCL. March 2009 - March 2012 The research activities of Professor Joachain concern two areas of theoretical physics: quantum collision theory and the interaction of intense laser fields with matter. He has published over 200 research articles and four books. Professor Joachain has been a visiting professor in several universities and laboratories in Europe and the United States, in particular at the University of California in Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching. Professor Joachain has received many scientific distinctions and prizes, in particular the Prix Louis Empain in 1963 and the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in 1998. |
Prof. Dr. Christian Pedrini
| Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France |
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Doctor Director Christian Pedrini was
during 12 years (1995-2006) Head of the "Laboratoire de
Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents, UMR 5620 CNRS" at
the Université Lyon 1. He is presently Director of Research
Eméritus CNRS. He is graduated and Ph.D (2 thesis in
Physics) from the University of Lyon 1, France. He was also
a Post-doc in Princeton University (1975-76). His main field
of specialization is the luminescence of solids as shows his
current research interest “luminescence and scintillation
mechanisms, charge transfer luminescence, energy transfer,
and excited state dynamics.” His other fields of research
are “solichirs, and scintillators”. He has published 5 books
and more the 330 papers in refereed journals. He has also
made more than 300 communications (many invited talks) in
scientific meetings.
March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor David Sherrington
| University of Oxford, UK |
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David Sherrington is
Wykeham Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of
Oxford, having held extended appointments also in
Manchester, La Jolla, London, Grenoble and Los Alamos. His
research interests have been broadly based throughout
Condensed Matter Theory; including metals, semiconductors,
magnetism, superfluidity and especially statistical physics
of complex systems in which combinations of microscopic
disorder and frustration lead to interesting cooperative
behaviour. A model that he introduced as a soluble spin
glass is the highly-cited paradigm and the stimulus for the
development of concepts and methodologies that have expanded
throughout many examples of complex systems in many
manifestations, in physical systems, computer and
information science, biology, economics and social science.
He holds Fellowships of the Institute of Physics, American
Physical Society and The Royal Society. He gave the Royal
Society's Bakerian Lecture (premier prize lecture in the
physical sciences) in 2001 and was awarded the UK Institute
of Physics Dirac Medal and Prize (premier award in
theoretical physics) in 2007. March 2009 - March
2012 |
Professor Alain Tressaud
| Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux, France |
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Alain Tressaud is currently Research Director at CNRS at the Institute of
Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux (ICMCB-CNRS), France. The scientific
activities of Alain Tressaud have been essentially focused on solid state
chemistry and fluorinated materials, first at Laboratoire Chimie du Solide,
Univ. Bordeaux1, (Prof. P. Hagenmuller, Dir.), and later at ICMCB-CNRS. March 2009 - March 2012 International scientific activities: Invited Scientist at: University California, Berkeley, Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany, Kyoto University, Universidad La Laguna, Spain, NPL, New Delhi, Aichi Institute Technology, Japan; Associate Member, Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia (since 1998) Editorial duties: Member of the Editorial Board of J. Fluorine Chemistry, Elsevier (since 1996) / Co-Editor of the book « Advanced Inorganic Fluorides », Elsevier (2000) / Editor-in-Chief of the books series: “Advances in Fluorine Science”, Elsevier, Amsterdam: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2: “Fluorine & the Environment” (2006), Vol. 3: “Fluorine & Health” (April 2008) / Editor “Functionalized Inorganic Fluorides”, Wiley-Blackwell (2009). Awards, Responsabilities & Memberships: - Scientific Administrator of the International Henri Moissan Prize on Fluorine Chemistry, since 2004 - Grand prix CEA-2008 (Atomic Energy Agency), Académie des sciences française - Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2007); “Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europća”, Austria (since 2009); Executive Committee of the American Chemical Society, Fluorine Division (2009). |
Division : Social Sciences and Humanities
Professor Vlado Belaj
| Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, Croatia |
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Prof. Vlado Belaj, Ph.D. is a Full professor of J.J. Strossmayer University of
Osijek, Faculty of Law Osijek. Fields of interest is Civil Law, European Private
Law and Family Law. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences
(Bruxelles), exterior member of the Committee of judiciary in Parlament of the
Republic of Croatia, member of Croatian committee for civil law and practice,
arbiter of Permanent court of arbitrage in Croatian Chamber of Economy,
permanent associate counselor of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
Croatia. He is also a professor of the postgraduate doctorical study at the
Faculty of Law in Zagreb. In 2000. He won Award for scientific activity of
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He published four books and over 50
scientific, review and other papers. March 2009 - March
2012 |
Professor Claude Imbert
| Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, Franc |
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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 (Shangaď)
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).
March 2009 - March 2012 |
Professor Éva Vámos
| Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology, Hungary |
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Dr. Éva Vámos is senior researcher of
the Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology, Budapest,
where she has worked since 1973 and was director general
from 1993 till 2004. .She holds a Ph.D. in history of
science and technology from the Technical University
Budapest where she made her “habilitation” in 2003. At
present she is vice secretary general of the IUHPS .She has been vice president and
president of the Committee on Women in the History of
Science, Technology and Medicine of IUHPS for 16 years. She
has been secretary of the Committee on History of Science
and Technology of the Federation of Technical and Scientific
Associations in Hungary since 1984 and has organized its
annual conferences for the last 25 years. Her main
publications are: German-Hungarian Relations in the Fields
of Science, with Special Regard to Chemistry, Chemical
Industry and Food Industry (in Hungarian with an extensive
English Summary) (Abigél Bt., Budapest, 1995), Bíró László
József (in Hungarian), Műszaki Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1997,
Hungarian letter connections of Justus von Liebig I-II.(in
Hungarian and German) Technikatörténeti Szemle XXV. and XVI.
She has written 170 major papers, partly in English and
German. Her main topics of research, at present, are history
of women in science and engineering in Central Europe, 18th
to 20th century history of chemistry in Hungary. March
2009 - March 2012 |
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