The new Academy members come from 20 countries, including Mongolia, Oman and Venezuela. Eight new members are women, representing the largest number of women ever elected to TWAS. TWAS membership now totals 880.
The new TWAS members are:
• ABOUTAJDINE, Driss (Morocco). Professor, Head of Laboratory, Chair, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
• BALSEIRO, Carlos A. (Argentina). Centro Atomico Bariloche, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.
• BANERJEE, Srikumar (India). Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. BARBURY, Beatriz Leonor (Brazil). Professor, Instituto de Astronomic Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas, Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil.
• CHATTERJI, Dipankar (India). Professor, Molecular Biology Unit, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India.
• CHE, Chi-Ming (China). Hui-Wai Haan Chair of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• CHEN, Chien-Te (Taiwan, China). Director, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan, China.
• CHEN, Sai-Juan (China). Professor, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• CIARLET, Philippe G. (France). Professor, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• DAAR, Abdallah Salim Said. (Oman). Professor of Surgery and Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• DASGUPTA, Chandan (India). Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• DASGUPTA, Somnath (India). Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
• FANG, Rongxiang (China). Director, State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics/Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. FARUQUE, Shah M. (Bangladesh). Scientist and Head, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• FLAWIA de TORRES, Mirtha Maria (Argentina). Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingenieria Genetica y Biologia Molecular (INGEBI), CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• GARIDKHUU, Jamts (Mongolia). National Chair Professor, Institute of Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.
• GROSS, David (USA). Director, Kavil Institute of Theoretical Physics & Frederick Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. HANDOUSSA, Heba (Egypt). Professor, Cairo, Egypt.
• HUANG, Baiyun (China). Vice Chairman of the China Association of Science & Technology, President of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• IBRAHIM, Muntaser E. (Sudan). Head, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Sudan.
• IZQUIERDO, Ivan A. (Brazil). Professor, Memory Centre, Institute of Biomedical Research, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Parto Alegre, Brazil.
• LEE, Typhoon (Taiwan, China). Research Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
• LEE WU, Yan-Hwa (Taiwan, China). President, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
• MACULAN, Nelson (Brazil). Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• PACIFICO, Maria José (Brazil). Professor Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• PARKER, Mohamed Iqbal (South Africa). Professor and Head of Medical Biochemistry, Institute of Infections Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• PAULRAJ, Arogyaswami J. (USA). Research Professor, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
• PHILANDER, Samuel G. (USA). Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
• RAMESH, Rangaswamy (India). Professor, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmadabad, India.
• RECH, Elibio L. (Brazil). Research Scientist, EMBRAPA Recursor Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estacao Biologica, Brasilia, Brazil.
• REES, Martin J. (United Kingdom). Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• SAMPER, Cristian (Colombia). Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
• SARMA, D.D. (India). MLS Chair Professor of Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
• SHAMSIPUR, Mojtaba (Iran I.R.). Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
• SHUKLA, Padma Kant (Germany). Professor, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany.
• STEINER, João (Brazil). Professor, Instituto de Estudos Avançados, University of Sao Paolo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• STEYN, Pieter (South Africa). Senior Director of Research, Division of Research Development, Stellenbosch University, Uniedal, South Africa.
• SUR, Mriganka (India). Sherman Fairchild Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA.
• VANEGAS, Horacio (Venezuela). Professor, Centro de Biofisica y Bioquimica, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela.
• VEREZ BENCOMO, Vicente (Cuba). Director, Centro de Antígenos Sintéticos Facultad de Química, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba.
• WONG, Chi-Huey (Taiwan, China). President and Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
• XU, Zhiqin (China). Professor, Key Laboratory for Continental Dynamics of MLR, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China.
• ZAGO, Marco A. (Brazil). Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeiro Preto, Brazil.
• ZHANG, Ya-Ping (China). Professor and Vice-Director, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Yunnan, China.
• ZHU, Jing (China). Dean, School of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
