Director general, Bureau of Frontier Science and Basic Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Gang Su received his Ph.D. degree from Lanzhou University in 1991. During 1993-1999, he worked as a CEEC research fellow in State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in Köln University, Germany, and a…
Secretary of State, Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia Vukašin Grozdić was born in Belgrade, where he graduated from the Ninth High School “Mihailo Petrović Alas”, majoring in natural sciences and mathematics. He attended undergraduate and master’s studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, during which he received…
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…
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)…
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…