Chair of the Ghana committee for the celebration of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development Aba Ayisa Bentil Andam, FGA, FInstP, FGhInstP, is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics, the Ghana Institute of Physics, and the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which she was President from 2017-2018. She…
President, International Association of Physics Students Cyrus Pan Walther serves in his second term as the President of the International Association of Physics Students, representing the global community of Physics students and their interests. Moreover, he is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Commission on Data (CODATA) of the International Science Council,…
Head of the Global Science Forum Secretariat, OECD Carthage Smith is responsible for working with national members of OECD to define the overall strategy and priorities for the Global Science Forum. This includes policy work on research infrastructures, Open Science, research funding mechanisms, science advisory processes and research careers. He joined the OECD in June…
Associate professor and deputy director of Ultrafast Laser Optics and Precision Metrology group, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shaobo Fang was selected in Chinese Academy of Sciences Interdisciplinary Innovation Team and CAS Key Technology Talent Program. He focus on the frontier research of ultrafast laser original technology and development of related laser research…
Former President of the French Academy of Sciences (2021-2022), emeritus CNRS senior scientist, ENS de Lyon Patrick Flandrin is working within the Physics Department of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. His research interests include mainly nonstationary signal processing, time-frequency/wavelet methods, scaling stochastic processes and complex systems. He was awarded the Philip Morris Scientific Prize…
Secretary-General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization Trained as a mathematician and hydrologist, Pavel Kabat has worked in the field of earth system sciences since the early 1980s, with a focus on transdisciplinary approaches, land-atmosphere interactions and biogeochemical feedbacks. In July 2020, he was appointed Secretary General of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO)…
Minister of science, technological development and innovation, Republic of Serbia Jelena Begović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After studying for a time at the University of British Columbia in Canada, she graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Biology…
Secretary of State in the Office of Science, Technology and Innovation, Republic of Honduras
President of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly Csaba Kőrösi is a Hungarian diplomat. He as President of the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations between September 2022 and September 2023. He was previously Director of Environmental Sustainability in the Office of the President of Hungary. Csaba Kőrösi joined the Ministry…
Assistant Director General, Natural Sciences, UNESCO Lidia Arthur Brito (Mozambique), a former minister, was appointed to the position of Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences on 2 November 2023. Lidia Arthur Brito obtained a bachelor’s degree in forestry engineering (1981) from Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) before obtaining a master’s degree (1990) and a doctorate in forestry…
