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TWAS-Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Award

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TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2025 Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.

Self nominations (i.e. applications) WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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Nominations for the 2025 award are invited in Medical Sciences.

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Djagoun, Chabi Adéyèmi Marc Sylvestre

Djagoun, Chabi Adéyèmi Marc Sylvestre

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Benin
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Benin
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Dr Chabi DJAGOUN is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey Calavi and a member of the Laboratory of Applied Ecology. He is a specialist in wildlife conservation and protected area management and has more than 15 years of professional experience in this field. His research work can be summarized in three axes: (i) Eco-systemic impact and sustainability of bushmeat exploitation in Benin's forest islands (ii) Ecohealth and sustainability of hunting in Benin (iii) Application of stable isotopes in the feeding ecology and habitat use of herbivores. Dr DJAGOUN is a member of the Academy of Young Scientists of Benin and a young affiliate of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) since 2014. Author and co-author of about 60 scientific articles published in internationally renowned journals, he is also a member of several international associations, including the World Commission on Protected Areas; the International Union of Forest Research Organisation. Dr. Djagoun received in 2018 the "Marsh Award for Ecologists in Africa", awarded by the British Ecological Society in recognition of the quality and impact of his scientific research in Africa.
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Hounkonnou, Mahouton Norbert

Hounkonnou, Mahouton Norbert

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Benin
Current country of residence
Benin
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Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou is a full Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. His works deal with noncommutative and nonlinear mathematics, and complexity. He authors books. He serves as a member or associate editor of editorial boards for renowned book series and journals in mathematics and mathematical physics. He supervised 37 PhD and 40 M. Sc. students from various continents. He was awarded a series of recognitions for the excellency of his works such as the Prize of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 1996, the Tokyo University of Science President Award in 2015, and the 2016 World Academy of Sciences C. N. R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research "for his incisive work on noncommutative and nonlinear mathematics and his contributions to world-class mathematics education ";. He is the President of the Network of African Science Academies, former President of the Benin National Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. His membership extends to African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science of South Africa, Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques du Maroc, InterAcademy Partnership Advisory Committee, etc.
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Ezin, Jean-Pierre Onvêhoun

Ezin, Jean-Pierre Onvêhoun

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Benin
Current country of residence
Benin
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Jean-Pierre EZIN is Emeritus Professor of mathematics of Université d'Abomey-Calavi. He held doctorat d'Etat in Geometric Analysis at Université Lille I, France. He has been Professor at Université Nationale, Bénin since 1982 ; senior lecturer at Université Lille I (1973-1982). He has been researcher at Abdus Salam ICTP,Trieste, Italy (1986-1988).He also was Commissioner of Economic Community of West African States for Education,Science and Culture from 2014-2016 and Commissioner of African Union for Human Resource,Science and Technology from 2008-2013. He is Founding Director of Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques, Bénin from1988-2008. In between he was Recteur Université Nationale, Bénin (1990-1992).As other implications, he was member of Board of Council Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) of NSF, USA, and of Board of Council International Science Programme (ISP), Sweden from 2010-2013 and from 2011-2015 Chairperson of Agence Inter-établissement de Recherche pour le Développement (AIRD),France. He is initiator and founding member of Bénin Academy of Science. In 2014 he was honored by TWAS special Award " for building science capacity in Africa".
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Assogbadjo, Achille Ephrem

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Current nationality
Benin
Current country of residence
Benin
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Professor Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo is, an agronomist and forester and hold a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences (Ghent University, Belgium). He is a Full Professor at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Republic of Benin. He doubles as a visiting Professor at Université Félix Houphouët Boigny in Côte d’Ivoire, University of Costa Rica in Costa Rica, University of Florianopolis in Brazil and Chuo University in Japan. He has been awarded more than 21 research grants and 11 at regional or international levels. He is a talented and well-established scientist, consistently motivated by the need to produce innovative research and technologies for positive change in the society. He is belonging more than 10 international scientific groups and is currently the Permanent Secretary of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, and also the Coordinator of the Doctoral Training in Natural Resources at the University. To date, he has (co)authored at total of 215 scientific articles in peer review journals, 26 books and/or book chapters; 11 proceedings and 9 technical reports. He won 11 international prizes.. Three words that describe him are rigor- perseverance-hard work.
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Glele Kakai, Romain Lucas

Glele Kakai, Romain Lucas

Current nationality
Benin
Current country of residence
Benin
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Romain Lucas Glele Kakaï is a Full Professor in Biometry and Forest modeling at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. He obtained his bachelor's in Agronomy and engineer degree in Forestry in the same University. He completed his MSc and PhD in Biostatistics at the Gembloux Agricultural University in Belgium. His interests are (i) Biological modeling, (ii) Artificial Intelligence based problem-solving in agricultural, (iii) Forest estimations. So far in 2020, his research works yields more than 200 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals, the “Biometrie88” Prize of the best Young French Biometrician in Belgium by the National Association of French Belgian Biometricians in Belgium (2002), the “Heinz and Johannes” Prize in 2007 of the best research Paper in Ecology by the Support Africa International (Germany, 2007), the “Jan Tinbergen Prize” of the best Young Statistician from Emerging and Developing Countries by the International Statistical Institute (ISI, 2007). He has also been Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) for outstanding achievements in research.
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TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry

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TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2025 Award.

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TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal

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Any country
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Personalities awarded with the TWAS-Abdus Salam Medal:

  • Federico Mayor, Spain (1995)
  • M.G.K. Menon, India (1996)
  • Thomas R. Odhiambo, Kenya (1998)
  • José I. Vargas, Brazil (2000)
  • Paolo Budinich, Italy (2002)
  • Lu Yongxiang, China (2005)
  • C.N.R. Rao, India (2008)
  • Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Sudan (2012)
  • Jacob Palis, Brazil  (2015)
  • Fernando Quevedo, Guatemala (2018)
  • Chunli Bai, China (2022)
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