Aretxaga is a class-C researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico, a member of the Mexican National Researcher System (equivalent to Full Professor), and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC). Since her arrival in Mexico in 1998, she has built her research group on galaxy formation and evolution and contributed to the development of the astronomy community. In 2011–2016 she was Head of Department of Astrophysics at INAOE. In 2006–2013, she coordinated the astronomy section of AMC. Since 2016, she has directed the International Schools for Young Astronomers of the International Astronomical Union, that bring education, development and networking opportunities to graduate students in isolated areas. The main focus of her research is to unravel the importance of massive star formation around supermassive black holes and their role in galaxy formation and evolution. She has coauthored over 140 research papers in Q1 journals, and has been invited more than 100 times to international conferences and other research institutes as a speaker. She also has an active outreach programme of talks, articles and pieces in social media.
Jagadish is a Distinguished Professor and the Head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group at the Australian National University. In 2021, he has been appointed President of the Australian Academy of Science, the latest of a long list of prestigious leadership activities. He has covered important editorial position in over 10 scientific journals. He published more than 650 journal papers, holds five US patents, and contributed, as co-author or co-editor, to over 15 books. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science; a Distinguished Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, UK; a Distinguished Chair Professor for Research at the National Taiwan University, among many other positions. Among his awards are: the Lloyd Rees Memorial Lecture by the Australian Academy of Science (2020); the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal by the Australian Academy of Science (2019); and UNESCO Medal for contributions to the development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2018).
Guharay (Ph.D.,1982, University of Nottingham), is currently Advisor Projects and Services with a Mesoamerican Information Services for Sustainable Agriculture, SIMAS. Earlier he served as Program manager Climate Smart Cocoa World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), Scientist Research for Development, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); Programme Leader for Integrated Pest Management and Agroforestry, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Professor of Plant Protection, National Agricultural University, Nicaragua (UNA) and Research Assistant Professor Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a member of the Latin American Society of Agroecology. He elucidated the biophysical basis of mechanoreception by discovering stretch-activated ion channels. His research helped to scale the biological control of vectors of Malaria in Nicaragua and laid the foundation of ecological management of agroforestry systems in Mesoamerica. He was awarded National Scholarship for Ph.D. studies by Govt. of India in 1978, the Research Scientist of the year by CATIE 2003, and the Coffee personality of Nicaragua by RAMACAFE 2006.
Akram's research output is very impressive. Her work has been continuously cited every year since 2006, when she had her first publication. Now she has to her credit more than 115 publications including 13 review articles and 3 chapter in an edited book and a few accepted for publications in well known International journals. The quality of her research work could be assessed not only from publications in high quality journals, but also from the citations of those publications. Dr. Akram’s publications impact factor is now over 160 and citation index over 1200.
Nathalie Casanova-Morales has been an assistant professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, at Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago, Chile since 2020. She is specializing in experimental physics with an interdisciplinary approach, playing a pivotal role in establishing the local Interdisciplinary Physics Laboratory, easing and promoting access to physics tools from different areas. She holds a bachelor's degree in applied physics from the University of Santiago, Chile, and a degree in engineering physics, both from the same institution. In 2012, she obtained a PhD from the University of Montpellier, France. She has implemented her academic competencies by working in several postdoctoral positions in Chile. Through the application of an interdisciplinary lens to physics, biology, and chemistry, she leverages her experimental expertise to employ physics techniques and innovative processes. This enables her to comprehend crucial parameters in bioprocesses within an interdisciplinary framework. Committed to expanding her expertise, she concentrates on biophysics, microbiology, parasitology, nanotechnology, and biochemistry, all disciplines that are vital for interdisciplinary research.
Sri Fatmawati completed her Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia, and obtained her master's and PhD degrees from Kyushu University, in Japan. Her research is primarily focused on the exploration of Indonesian natural products. For her significant contributions to science and development she was a co-recipient of the 2013 International Rising Talents of L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science. In 2016, she received the Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World.
She is also renowned for her leadership role within scientific organizations. In 2018, she founded the Indonesia National Chapter of the Organization for Women in Science in the Developing World, which she is currently chairing. She served as the president of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (2020–2022) and serves in the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy for the term 2022–2024. She attended the 2023 World Laureates Association International Forum in Shanghai, China.
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Indonesian natural products
DATE OF BIRTH
3
November
1980
TWAS Regional Office
TWAS Central and South Asia Regional Partner (TWAS-CASAREP)
Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Department of Physics, College of Sciences Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
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Ridha Horchani is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Sultan Qaboos University, in Oman, where he teaches physics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Horchani holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degrees in physics from the Paris-Saclay University, in France. He earned a PhD degree in physics from Paris-Saclay University, in France, after which he went to the University of Aarhus, in Denmark as a postdoctoral research assistant.
His research interests include atomic and molecular spectroscopy, atomic quantum gases, theoretical physics, and plasmonic nanostructures. In recognition of his contributions to science and development, Horchani received, in 2022, the Best Researcher Award from Sultan Qaboos University.
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