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El-Ashry, Mohamed Taha

El-Ashry, Mohamed Taha

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Egypt
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El-Ashry was senior fellow with the UN Foundation. He has previously held a number of positions: CEO and chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF); chief environmental adviser to the president and director of the Environment Department at the World Bank; senior vice president of the World Resources Institute (WRI); and director of Environmental Quality with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). He has held teaching and research positions at Cairo University, Wilkes University, and Illinois State Geological Survey. He has received numerous international awards and honours including UNEP's Champions of the Earth and The Haub Prize for Environmental Diplomacy. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the African Academy of Sciences.
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Last updated on 15/08/2023

Gingrich, Andre

Gingrich, Andre

Current nationality
Austria
Current country of residence
Austria
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Gingrich is full professor at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the ÖAW. Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Publishing House Committee of the ÖAW. He obtained his PhD in 1979 at the University of Vienna. He has served as a Delegate in the Assembly of the Austrian Science Fund. He was a founding member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and he was a Panel Chair for the European Research Council, Advanced Grant SH2. His awards include the Wittgenstein Prize, City of Vienna Award in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural and Legal Studies.
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Last updated on 02/05/2025

Alberts, Bruce M.

Alberts, Bruce M.

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
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Alberts is a US Natl. Medal of Science awardee (2014). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Science (2008-2013) and as one of President Obama’s first three United States Science Envoys (2009-2011). Alberts holds the Chancellor's Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, to which he returned after serving two six-year terms as the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Dr. Alberts is noted as one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a pre-eminent textbook in the field soon to be in its sixth edition. Alberts has earned many honors and awards, including 16 honorary degrees. He currently serves on the advisory boards of more than 25 nonprofit institutions, including the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP).
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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Abidi, Asad

Abidi, Asad

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United States of America (the)
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Abidi is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his BSc in electrical engineering from Imperial College, London, UK, in 1976, and his MS (1978) and PhD (1981) in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served in many other capacities including: Member, technical staff, Advanced LSI Development Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 1981-84; visiting faculty researcher, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, 1989; and editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, 1992-95. He has received several honours including the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Solid-State Circuits Award; Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award; IEEE Millennium Medal; and membership in the US National Academy of Engineering and IEEE. He specializes in the design of analog integrated circuits, and is credited with single-chip CMOS radios. Abidi is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.
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Last updated on 02/05/2025

Beachy, Roger

Beachy, Roger

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
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Founding Executive Director, University of California, Davis; President Emeritus, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO; Professor, Department of Biology, Washington Univ., St. Louis. Former director Natl. Inst. of Food and Agriculture, US Dept. of Agriculture. Education: BA in biology (1966) Goshen College, Indiana; PhD in plant pathology (1973) Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Previous academic positions: Washington Univ., St. Louis, Missouri; Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Member, US National Academy of Science; Fellow, AAAS and Academy of Microbiology; Foreign Fellow, National Academy of Sciences of India and Indian National Science Academy. Awards include the Wolf Prize in Agriculture; Dennis Robert Hoagland Award, American Society of Plant Biologists; Scientist of the Year, R and D Magazine; and Ruth Allen Award, American Phytopathological Society.
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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Limonta Velazquez, Daniel de Jesus

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Current nationality
Cuba
Current country of residence
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Dr. Daniel Limonta was accepted as Research Assistant (Virologist) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2022. UCSF is one of the best medical schools in the United States. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Nevan J. Krogan. The Krogan lab is based at the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes. One of the main interests of this lab is the development of new therapeutic strategies against RNA viruses of global importance. After completing his PhD in Havana, Cuba, Daniel worked as virologist for over seven years at the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology at the University of Alberta which is among the top-ranking universities in Canada. While in Havana his main topic of research was the immunopathogenesis of dengue virus, at the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology he researched the interactions between zika virus and host cells. Specifically, he developed new ex-vivo infection models of zika virus in the human developing brain for immunopathogenesis studies and anti-viral therapeutic strategies. Furthermore, he did anti-viral research about SARS-CoV-2, the causing agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other RNA viruses.
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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Gunatilaka, A.A. Leslie

Gunatilaka, A.A. Leslie

Current nationality
Sri Lanka
Current country of residence
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Gunatilaka (PhD and DIC 1970-74, Imperial College, London) is professor and director of the Natural Products Center, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, U. of Arizona (UA). His was previously: Academic visitor, Imperial College, London; research associate at Stanford, USA; professor and head, Dept. of Chem., U. of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; visiting professor and Snr. research scientist at Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U., USA. His awards include: Bikaji Framji Kahn Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, U. of Ceylon; Inst. of Chem. (Ceylon) Gold Medal; Sri Lanka President's Gold Medal for Scientific Achievement, UA Asian American Assoc. Outstanding Faculty Award, and UA Leading Edge Researcher Award for innovative research. He is a fellow of the Natl .Acad. of Sciences, Sri Lanka. He has published +250 peer-reviewed papers and delivered +100 invited lectures in 18 countries.
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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Sancar, Aziz

Sancar, Aziz

Current nationality
United States of America (the)
Current country of residence
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Last updated on 12/07/2023
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