Fellow
Diab Roseanne
Emeritus Professor / Special Advisor
Current nationality
South Africa
Current country of residence
South Africa
Past nationality
South Africa
Affiliation / Institution
University of KwaZulu-Natal / GenderInSITE, TWAS
Biodata
Diab is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, the former Executive Officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and currently serves as Special Advisor to GenderInSITE. She obtained her PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, in 1983. She is a fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the South African Geographical Society, the African Academy of Sciences and TWAS, and a member of ASSAf. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and has served on numerous international committees such as the International Ozone Commission. She currently chairs the Gender Advisory Committee of TWAS. She serves on the African Union High-Level Panel on Emerging Technologies and was recently Co-Chair of an OECD Expert Group on Reducing the Precarity of Young Researchers’ Careers.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Tropospheric ozone; air quality; dispersion modeling; climate change.
ELECTED
2011
Place of birth
Durban
Country of birth
South Africa
DATE OF BIRTH
11
November
1949
Section
06. Earth, Climate & Environmental Sciences
TWAS Awards
TWAS Medal lecture (2021)
Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
South Africa
Last updated on 12/07/2023