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Verma, Inder Mohan

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Verma obtained his MSc in 1966 from Lucknow University, India and his PhD in biochemistry at The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; adjunct professor in the department of biology at UC San Diego; Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). His honours include: Medal of Outstanding Scientist, North American Scientists of Indian Origin; NIH Merit Award; NIH Outstanding Investigator Award; and the American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology. His membership includes: National Academies of Sciences, USA; Institute of Medicine; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Indian National Science Academy; and the American Philosophical Society.

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Last updated on 13/03/2024

Sreenivasan, Katepalli Raju

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Sreenivasan is professor of physics, mathematical sciences and engineering at New York U. and pres. and dean of its Polytechnic School. He taught at Yale for 22 years where he was the Harold W. Cheel prof.; dist. u. prof. and dir., Inst. of Physical Science and Tech., U. Maryland; and Abdus Salam professor and dir. of the Intl. Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. He is a member of the US Natl. Acad. of Sci.; US Natl. Acad. of Eng.; Accademia dei Lincei; American Acad. of Arts and Sci.; Indian Acad. of Sciences; Indian Natl. Science Acad.; Indian National Acad. of Eng.; and African Acad. of Sciences. His honours include the Guggenheim Fellowship; Otto Laporte Award and Dwight, American Physical Society; Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Inst. of Science; Intl. Panetti-Ferrari Prize and Gold Medal, Torino Acad. of Sciences; and Natl. Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil.

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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Patel, Chandra Kumar Naranbhai

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Patel (PhD, Electr. Engg., Stanford, 1961) is Em. prof. of physics and astronomy, electrical engineering and chemistry, UC Los Angeles. University Distinguished Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; He is also President and CEO of the Board, Pranalytica, Inc. In 1961, he joined Bell Laboratories where he managed all research in physics and materials science and engineering. In 1993 he joined UC Los Angeles as vice chancellor for research and assumed his present positions in 2000. He has received many scientific society prizes including the highest prizes of the IEEE (Medal of Honor) and the Optical Society of America (Ives Medal) and the Natl. Medal of Science awarded by the US President (1996). He was elected to the Natl. Acad. of Sciences, the American Acad. of Arts and Sciences and the Natl. Acad. of Engineering. In 2013, he was inducted into the Natl. Inventors Hall of Fame. He was pres., American Physical Society (1995) and Sigma Xi (1993-95).

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Jamshidi, Mohammad Mo

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Jamshidi is LB Endowed chaired prof. of ECE and dir., ACE Lab., U. of Texas, San Antonio, regents prof. em., U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque and hon. prof., Birmingham U. (UK) 2012-2017. He was adv., NASA, and sr. res. adv., US Air Force Res. Lab and US DOE. Awards include: IEEE's Norbert Wiener Res. Award; Centennial Medal; CSS Dist. Member Awd., and IEEE-USA Sys Engr. Awd.; member, 5 honor societies; Best Res. Awd., Min. of Sci. and Higher Ed., Iran; Edison Natl. Res. Awd., Min. of Energy, Iran; Dist. Res. of the Year, UNM College of Eng.; and 3 hon. doctorates from u. in Azerbaijan, Canada and Greece. NASA Natl. service awd.. His membership includes: fellow of IEEE, ASME, NYAS, AAAS; assoc. fellow, AIAA; Hungarian Acad. of Eng.; Russian Acad. Nonlinear Sci.; U. of Texas System Chancellor’s Council (2011-). He has published 730 pieces of work including 68 books, some translated into Russian, Mandarin among others.

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Abdel-Massih, Roula

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Roula M. Abdel-Massih is a community educator (volunteer) at Central Michigan University and a consultant at GBAC. She was a former professor at the University of Balamand in Lebanon (2003-2021) and served as Chairperson (2008-2011). Roula holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Glasgow (2001). Her research focuses on identifying bioactive (antibacterial and anti-proliferative properties) components from plant extracts. Roula has published over 40 papers in international journals, 2 book chapters, and presented conference proceedings in 50 International conferences. She was elected as a TWAS Young Affiliate (2011-2015), selected by The New York Academy of Sciences and STS to participate in the 2015 Future Leaders program, and selected as an education fellow in the US National Academies in the Life Sciences (2015-2016). Roula obtained a Certificate of Completion for the APLD Program (May 2016) at Harvard and was granted the TCGA Grant Award (Emory, 2019). She is an IFBA Certified Professional in Biorisk Management since 2019. Roula was selected as co-chair of TYAN Executive Committee (Nov. 2021).

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College of Medicine-Central Michigan University-Mt Pleasant-USA

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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Teixeira, Eduardo

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Eduardo Teixeira is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA. His research interests include free boundary problems and regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations. Before joining UCF, Teixeira was a Professor of Mathematics at Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), in his hometown Fortaleza, Brazil. During nearly ten years that Teixeira was associated with UFC in Brazil he founded and directed one of the major research groups in nonlinear PDEs in Latin America. Teixeira was awarded the 2013 Mathematical Congress of the Americas Prize and the 2017 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize. He was elected permanent fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2015.

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Last updated on 12/07/2023

Marques, Fernando Coda

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Fernando Coda Marques is Full Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2014, after being a Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for 11 years. He obtained his BS in mathematics at the Federal University of Alagoas, MS in mathematics at IMPA, and PhD in mathematics at Cornell University, USA. He is mainly interested in the interplay between differential geometry and nonlinear analysis. He is known for work on the Yamabe Problem, counterexamples for the Min-Oo's Conjecture of 1995, the solution of the Willmore Conjecture of 1965, and the proof of Yau's Conjecture about minimal surfaces (of 1982) for generic metrics. For his achievements, he has received several honours including the UMALCA Prize (2012), the Ramanujan Prize (2012) of ICTP, the TWAS Prize in Mathematics (2012) and the Veblen Prize (2016) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2014 and a Fellow of the AMS since 2018. In 2010 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Hyderabad, India and a plenary speaker of the ICM in 2014, in Seou

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