Global Young Academy welcomes new members from 30 countries around the world and one of them is our YA@UT member D. Fernandez Rivas.
Under the leadership of Mohamed Elhadidy (Zewail City for Science and Technology, Egypt) the 51 member selection committee of the Global Young Academy has finalised the selection of 40 new members to join the GYA in June 2020 for a tenure of five years. Each application was evaluated by at least three selection committee members in two successive rounds of reviews, and scored based, first and foremost, on the excellence of their scientific research, but also importantly, on demonstrated societal engagement.
The new member cohort comes from 30 different countries, from all GYA general disciplines, and includes 23 females, 1 non-binary, and 16 males.
Among other activities, the GYA acts as a facilitator and (virtual) convenor for the growing global network of National Young Academies (NYAs). We are therefore delighted to see that a number of our new GYA members are also members of – or in leadership positions in – their country’s NYA.
Additionally, we are pleased to welcome a number of Young Affiliates of The World Academy of Science (TWAS) among our 2020 membership intake.
Please join us in extending a very warm welcome to:
- Alma Hernández-Mondragón, SECTEI, CDMX, Mexico
- Amy Quandt, San Diego State University, USA
- Andreea Molnar, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Carlo D’Ippoliti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Chandra Sharma, IITH, India
- Chika Ejikeugwu, Ebonyi State University, Nigeria
- David Fernandez Rivas, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Derya Baran, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Devina Lobine, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
- Erna Karalija, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Eshchar Mizrachi, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Estella Carpi, University College London, UK
- Janilyn Arsenio, Manitoba Centre for Proteomics and Systems Biology, Canada
- Jonathan Tennant, France
- Josep Armengol, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Justine Nzweundji, Cameroon
- Karen Cloete, South Africa
- Leila Niamir, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany
- Markus J. Prutsch, European Parliament, Belgium
- Menattallah Elserafy, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt
- Mita Dasog, Dalhousie University, Canada
- Muhammad Farooq, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
- Myrtani Pieri, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
- Nafissa Ismail, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Natasha Gownaris, Gettysburg College, USA
- Nina Yasuda, University of Miyazaki, Japan
- Nurcan Tuncbag, METU Informatics Institute, Turkey
- Patrick Roberts, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany
- Pei Sean Goh, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Prabhat Singh, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
- Pradeep Kumar, Wits University, South Africa
- Prosper Ngabonziza, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
- Ramia Albakain, University of Jordan, Jordan
- Saja Al Zoubi, Christ Church Oxford University, UK
- Sami Miaari, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- Sophie Theriault, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Sri Fatmawati, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia
- Syed Abbas, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
- Victorien Tamègnon Dougnon, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
- Zhen Wang, China
