TWAS 27th General Meeting - Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants
1 Samir ABBES 9 Sabah ALMOMIN (FTWAS) 18 Marlene BENCHIMOL Associate Professor Research Scientist Brazilian Academy of Sciences Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Beja Biotechnology Department Rio de Janeiro (ISBB) Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Brazil Habib Bourguiba Street (KISR) BP: 382; Beja 9000 P.O. Box 24885 University of Jendouba Safat 13109 19 Tonya BLOWERS Jendouba 8189 Kuwait OWSD Programme Coordinator Tunisia Organization for Women in Science for 10 Ashima ANAND (FTWAS) the Developing World (OWSD) 2 Ahmed E. ABDEL MONEIM Principal Investigator c/o TWAS, ICTP Campus Lecturer Exertional Breathlessness Studies Strada Costiera 11 Zoology and Entomology Department Laboratory 34151 Trieste Faculty of Science Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute Italy Helwan University P.O. Box 2101 11795 Ain Helwan Delhi University 20 Rodrigo de Moraes BRINDEIRO Cairo Delhi 110 007 Director Egypt India Institute of Biology Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 3 Adejuwon Adewale ADENEYE 11 Asfawossen ASRAT KASSAYE (UFRJ) Associate Professor Associate Professor Rio de Janeiro Department of Pharmacology School of Earth Sciences Brazil Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences Addis Ababa University Lagos State University College of P.O. BOX 1176 21 Federico BROWN Medicine Addis Ababa Assistant Professor 1-5 Oba Akinjobi Way Ethiopia Departamento de Zoologia G.R.A. Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria Instituto de Biociências 12 Thomas AUF DER HEYDE Universidade de São Paulo 4 Ahmed A. AL-AMIERY Deputy Director General Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, n.101 Assistant Professor Ministry of Science and Technology Cidade Universitária Environmental Research Center Department of Science and Technology São Paulo SP. CEP 05508-900 University of Technology Private Bag X 727 Brazil Baghdad Pretoria 0001 Iraq South Africa 22 Ayse BUGRA Bogazici University 5 Fayzah M.A. AL-KHARAFI (FTWAS) 13 Akiça (Akissa) BAHRI (FTWAS) Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish Emeritus Professor National Research Institute for Rural History Kuwait University Engineering, Water and Forestry 34342 Bebek Faculty of Science BP 10, Rue Hédi Karray, ARIANA 2080, Istanbul P.O. Box 21540 Tunisia Turkey Safat 13076 Kuwait 14 BAI Chunli (FTWAS) 23 Franco Martin CABRERIZO President Associate Professor 6 Salma Muhammed Zahran AL-KINDY Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) IIB-INTECH, sede Chascomús (FTWAS) 52 Sanlihe Road Intendente Marino KM 8,2 Dean Beijing 100864 CC 164, C.P. 7130, Chascomús College of Science China Provincia de Buenos Aires Sultan Qaboos University Argentina P.O.Box 36, 15 Yusuf BARAN Postal Code 123 Alkhod Professor 24 CAO Jinghua Muscat Abdullah Gul University Director General Sultanate of Oman Faculty of Life and Natural Sciences Bureau of International Cooperation Sumer Campus, 38080 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 7 Sabah A. Abdul-Wahab AL-SULAIMAN Kayseri 52 Sanlihe Road (FTWAS) Turkey Beijing 100864 Full Professor China Sultan Qaboos University 16 Endashaw BEKELE (FTWAS) College of Engineering Department of Biology 25 Pinakpani CHAKRABARTI (FTWAS) Department of Mechanical and Industrial Science Faculty Senior Professor and JC Bose National Engineering Addis Abba University Fellow P.O. Box 33, PC 123 P.O. Box 1176 Bose Institute Al-Khoud Addis Ababa P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII-M Sultanate of Oman Ethiopia Kolkata 700 054 India 8 Ahmed Abdulrahman Ahmed 17 Jalila BEN SALAH-ABBÈS AL-TABBAKH Associate Professor 26 Srinivasan CHANDRASEKARAN Senior Lecturer Higher Institute of Biotechnology of (FTWAS) Department of Physics Monastir Honorary Professor Al-Nahrain University Avenue Taher Hadded Department of Organic Chemistry Jadiriya BP 74 Indian Institute of Science P.O.Box 64055 Monastir 5000 Bangalore 560 012 - Karnataka Baghdad Tunisia India Iraq TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 2
27 Dipankar CHATTERJI (FTWAS) 36 María Isabel COLOMBO 45 Gabriella DE MELLO President, Indian Academy of Sciences Group Leader- Investigador Superior Project Manager Molecular Biophysics Unit Instituto de Histologia y Embriologia Brazilian Academy of Sciences/TWAS Indian Institute of Science (IHEM)-CONICET ROLAC Bangalore 560 012 Facultad de Ciencias Medicas Anfilofio de Carvalho, 29/3 andar India Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Rio de Janeiro, RJ Castilla de Correos 56 20030-060 28 CHEN Fang Mendoza 5500 Brazil Professor Argentina Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital 46 Wanderley DE SOUZA (FTWAS) Earth 37 Philip COTTON Head, Laboratory of Cell Structure Chinese Academy of Sciences Vice Chancellor Centro de Ciencias da Saude (CCS) No.9 Dengzhuang South Road University of Rwanda Prédio do Centro de Ciências da Saúde Haidian District UR-Head Office Cidade Universitária, Cep: 21.944-970 Beijing 100094 KK 737st Gikondo Rio de Janeiro RJ China P.O. Box 4285 Brazil Kigali 29 CHEN Guanrong (Ron) (FTWAS) Rwanda 47 DENG Zixin (FTWAS) Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks Dean City University of Hong Kong 38 Robin CREWE (FTWAS) School of Life Science and Biotechnology 83 Tat Chee Avenue Director Shanghai Jiaotong University Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR Centre for the Advancement of Science Building, Xuhui Campus China Scholarship 1954 Huashan Road University of Pretoria Shanghai 200030 30 CHENG Hui-Ming (FTWAS) Pretoria 0002 China Advanced Carbon Division, Shenyang South Africa National Lab for Mater. Sci. (SYNL) 48 Roseanne DIAB (FTWAS) Institute of Metal Research 39 Genya V. DANA Executive Officer Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR Senior Science Policy Officer Academy of Science of South Africa CAS) Office of the Science & Technology (ASSAF) 72 Wenhua Road Adviser to the Secretary of State PO Box 72135 Shenyang 110016 Washington DC 20520 Lynnwood Ridge 0040 China USA South Africa
31 Jayaram N. CHENGALUR 49 Alicia DICKENSTEIN National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Dto. de Matemática, FCEN Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 40 Collet DANDARA Universidad de Buenos Aires Pune Associate Professor Ciudad Universitaria Pab. I - C1428EGA India Department of Clinical Laboratory Buenos Aires Sciences Argentina 32 Sok Ching CHEONG Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Group Leader Cape Town 50 Victorien Tamegnon DOUGNON Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation Anzio Road , Observatory 7325 Lecturer (CARIF) Cape Town Department of Human Biology 2nd Floor, Outpatient Centre South Africa Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi Sime Darby Medical Centre University of Abomey-Calavi No. 1 Jalan SS12/1A 41 Chandan DASGUPTA (FTWAS) Abomey-Calavi 47500 Subang Jaya Professor Benin Selangor Department of Physics Malaysia Indian Institute of Science 51 Mohamed M. EL-FAHAM Bangalore 560012 Scientific Advisor 33 Christopher J. CHETSANGA (FTWAS) India Bibliotheca Alexandrina Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences Center for Special Studies and Programs Tropical Resources Ecology Centre 42 Swapan Kumar DATTA (FTWAS) (CSSP) University of Zimbabwe Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of El Shatby, Alexandria 21526 P O Box MP 1512, Mount Pleasant Crop Science Egypt Harare Visva-Bharati University Zimbabwe PO Santiniketan West Bengal 731235 34 Uchechukwu Madukaku CHUKWUOCHA India Senior Lecturer 52 Hala EL-KHOZONDAR (FTWAS) Department of Public Health Technology 43 Luiz DAVIDOVICH (FTWAS) Electrical Engineering Department Federal University of Technology Director BAS Islamic University of Gaza PMB 1526 Instituto de Fisica P.O. Box 108 Owerri Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Gaza Strip Imo State Cx.P. 68528 Palestinian Aut. Terr. Nigeria 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil 53 Mauricio Federico ERBEN 35 Anthony CLAYTON (FTWAS) CEQUINOR (UNLP-CONICET) Professor of Caribbean Sustainable 44 Fernando G. DE MELLO (FTWAS) Departamento de Química Development Instituto de Biofisica "Carlos Chagas Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Institute for Sustainable Development Filho" Universidad Nacional de La Plata 13 Gibraltar Camp Way Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Bloco "G" Argentina University of the West Indies Cidade Universitaria Mona Campus Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro Kingston 7 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, R.J. Jamaica Brazil TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 3
54 Jean-Pierre Onvêhoun EZIN (FTWAS) 63 Krishnarajanagar Nagapa GANESH 72 GUO Lei (FTWAS) Emeritus Professor (FTWAS) President Institut de Mathématiques et Sciences Director Academy of Mathematics and Systems Physiques Indian Institute of Science Education and Science Quartier Avakpa, BP 613 Research (IISER) Chinese Academy of Sciences Porto-Novo 900, NCL Innovation Park No.55 Zhong Guan Cun East Road Bénin Dr Homi Bhabha Road Haidian District Pune 411008 Beijing 100190 55 Bernie FANAROFF India China Former Director and Strategic Advisor Square Kilometre Array 64 Marie-Christine GASINGIRWA 73 Julius Kofi HAGAN SKA SA Director General Senior Lecturer The Park,, 1 Park Road, Pinelands Science, Technology and Research Department of Animal Science Cape Town, Western Cape 7405 Ministry of Education School of Agriculture South Africa P.O. Box 622 University of Cape Coast Kigali Cape Coast 56 Olaniyi FAWOLE Rwanda Ghana Reseacher Faculty of AgriSciences 65 Yaye Ken GASSAMA 74 Asaf Haji Oglu HAJIYEV (FTWAS) Stellenbosch University Vice President Head of Department Stellenbosch 7602 National Academy of Sciences Institute of Controlled Systems South Africa ANSTS Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Dakar 9, B. Vahabzade str. 57 FENG Kai Senegal Baku, AZ1010 Deputy Director Azerbaijan Division of International Organization 66 Ignace GATARE Programmes Director General 75 Adnan HAMOUI (FTWAS) Bureau of International Cooperation National Commission for Science and Editor-in-Chief, Arabic Edition of Scientific Chinese Academy of Sciences Technology American 'Majallat Al-Oloom' 52 Sanlihe Road Kigali Al-Oloom (The Arabic Language Edition Beijing 100864 Rwanda of Scientific American) China Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement 67 GE Ri-Li of Sciences 58 Habib FIROUZABADI (FTWAS) Director P.O. Box 20856 Safat Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Research Center for High Altitude Kuwait 13069 Chemistry Medicine Department of Chemistry Qinghai University 76 Gaiti HASAN (FTWAS) Shiraz University 16 Kunlun Road, Xining National Centre for Biological Sciences Shiraz 71454 Qinghai 810001 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Iran, Islamic Republic China (TIFR) Bellary Road 59 Daniel FRENKEL (FTWAS) 68 Ratna GHOSH (FTWAS) Bangalore 560065 Department of Chemistry James McGill Professor and Macdonald India University of Cambridge Professor Lensfield Road McGill University 77 Mohamed Hag Ali HASSAN (FTWAS) Cambridge, CB2 1EW Faculty of Education Executive Director, a.i. United Kingdom 3700 McTavish Street The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y2 ICTP Campus 60 Godefroid GAHUNGU Canada Strada Costiera 11 Associate Professor 34151 Trieste Chemistry Department 69 Rajesh GOPAKUMAR (FTWAS) Italy Faculty of Sciences Director and Senior Professor University of Burundi International Centre for Theoretical 78 Arlen HASTINGS BP 2700 Bujumbura Sciences Executive Director Burundi TIFR Centre Building, IISc Campus Science Initiative Group (SIG) Subedarpalya, Malleshwaram Institute for Advanced Study 61 Jean Bosco GAHUTU Bengaluru 560 012 1 Einstein Drive Professor in Physiology India Princeton, NJ 08540 School of Medicine and Pharmacy USA P.O. Box 217 Huye 70 Glenda GRAY Kigali President & CEO 79 HE Lin (FTWAS) Rwanda South African Medical Research Council Director (SAMRC) Bio-X Institutes 62 Lindiwe GAMA Cape Town Head Office, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Deputy Director Parrow Valley Small White House Multilateral Cooperation Cape Town 1954 Hua Ran Road Department of Science and Technology South Africa Shanghai 200030 Private Bag X 727 China Pretoria 0001 South Africa 71 Michelle GREVE 80 Lê Tuân HOA (FTWAS) Senior Lecturer Director Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Institute of Mathematics Hanoi (IMH) University of Pretoria Vietnamese Academy of Science and P. Bag X20 Technology (VAST) Hatfield 0028 18 Hoang Quoc Viet South Africa 10307 Hanoi Vietnam TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 4
81 Mahouton Norbert HOUNKONNOU 90 JIANG Yiqi 98 Varadachari KRISHNAN (FTWAS) (FTWAS) Deputy Director Bureau of International Co-ordinator President Holder Cooperation TWAS Regional Office for Central and International Chair of Mathematical Division of Asian and African Affairs South Asia (TWAS-ROCASA) Physics and Applications Chinese Academy of Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced (ICMPA-UNESCO Chair) 52 Sanlihe Road Scientific Research University of Abomey-Calavi Beijing 100864 Jakkur P.O. 072 BP 50 Cotonou China Bangalore 560 064 Republic of Benin India 91 Ishenkumba A. KAHWA (FTWAS) 82 Mike HUGHES Deputy Principal 99 Aderemi Oluyomi KUKU (FTWAS) Senior Advisor Science, Technology and Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences President, African Academy of Sciences Innovation The University of the West Indies University of Ibada Ministry of Education Mona Campus Post Office Box 22574, BP 622 Kingston 7 Ibadan Kigali Jamaica Oyo State Rwanda Nigeria 92 Mohamed KAMEL Regional Director 100 Santhi KUMARAN 83 Rabia HUSSAIN (FTWAS) Elsevier College of Science and Technology Distinguished National Professor 90th Street, No. 67 University of Rwanda The Aga Khan University (retired) First Section, City Centre KN 7 Ave, 17/3/A Mohammed Ali Housing Society New Cairo 11835 Kigali Hashim Tabba Road, Off Sharae Faisal Cairo Rwanda Karachi Egypt Pakistan 101 Wook Hyun KWON (FTWAS) 84 Muntaser Eltayeb IBRAHIM (FTWAS) 93 Beth KAPLIN Chair Professor, DGIST Head Unit Ag Director Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science Department of Molecular Biology Center of Excellence in Biodiversity & and Technology (DGIST) Institute of Endemic Diseases Natural Resource Management 50-1 Sang-Ri, Hyeonpung-Myeon University of Khartoum University of Rwanda Dalseong-Gun, Daegu, 711-873 P.O.Box 102, Khartoum Butare Korea, Rep. Sudan Rwanda 102 Jagdish LADHA 85 Etinosa Ogbomoede IGBINOSA 94 Zahurul KARIM (FTWAS) Principal Scientist Department of Microbiology Chairman International Rice Research Institute Faculty of Life Sciences Center for Agri-research and Sustainable Manila University of Benin Development CASEED Philiippines PMB 1154, Benin City House 59, Road 12-A Nigeria Dhanmondi 103 Edward LEMPINEN Dhaka 1209 Public Information Officer 86 Alfredo Noel IUSEM (FTWAS) Bangladesh The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Full Researcher ICTP Campus Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada 95 Frederick Ian Bantubano KAYANJA Strada Costiera 11 (IMPA) (FTWAS) 34151 Trieste Estrada Dona Castorina, 110 Vice Chancellor Italy Jardim Botânico, Mbarara University of Science and Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22460-320 Technology 104 Jacques LEPINE (FTWAS) Brazil P.O. Box 1410 Professor Mbarara Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e 87 Keramatollah IZADPANAH-JAHROMI Uganda Ciências Atmosféricas (FTWAS) Rua do Matão 1226, Cidade Universitária Professor of Plant Pathology 96 Farhana KHANAM 05508-090 São Paulo College of Agriculture Deputy Project Coordinator Brazil Shiraz University Mucosal Immunology and Vaccinology Shiraz Laboratory Iran, Islamic Republic Infectious Disease Division 105 LI Feng-Min International Centre for Diarrhoeal Institute of Arid AgroEcology 88 Mohammad Qasim JAN (FTWAS) Disease Research, Bangladesh School of Life Sciences Adviser (ICDDR,B) Lanzhou University OIC Standing Committee on Scientific 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Yifu Biology Building and Technological Cooperation Mohakhali 222 South Tianshui Road (COMSTECH) Dhaka 1212 Lanzhou COMSTECH Secretariat Bangladesh China 33 Constitution Avenue, G-5/2 Islamabad 44000 97 Monther AbdelJabbar KHANFAR 106 LI Yin Pakistan Department of Chemistry Institute of Microbiology The University of Jordan Chinese Academy of Sciences 89 Haikel JELASSI Amman 11942 No. 1, West Beichen Road, Chaoyang Associate Professor Jordan District National Centre for Nuclear Sciences and Beijing Technologies China 2020 Sidi Thabet Tunis Tunisia TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 5
107 Manuel de Jesus LIMONTA-VIDAL 116 Tshilidzi MARWALA (FTWAS) 125 Dalal NAJIB (FTWAS) Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research Senior Program Officer Director Innovation Library and Post. Grad. U.S. National Academy of Sciences Regional Office for Latin America and the Studies 500 Fifth Street, N.W. - WS 502 Caribbean Faculty of Engineering and the Built Washington, D.C. 20001 International Council for Science (ICSU) Environment USA KM. 23.5 Carretera Federal University of Johannesburg Mexico-Cuernavaca PO Box 524 Casa Tlalpan Ave. Cipreses s/n Auckland Park 2006 126 Ethel NAKIMULI-MPUNGU Col. San Andres Totoltepec Johannesburg Makerere University Tlalpan 14400 D.F. Mexico City,Mexico South Africa College of Health Sciences School of Medicine 108 LIU Zhongfan (FTWAS) 117 Emilia MOLNAR Department of Psychiatry College of Chemistry and Molecular Senior Programme Manager, Research PO box 7072 Engineering Cooperation Kampala, Uganda Peking University Embassy of Sweden Beijing 100871 P.O. Box 6387 127 Ramesh NARAYAN (FTWAS) China Kigali Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Rwanda Natural Sciences 109 Silas LWAKABAMBA Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Vice Chancellor 118 Ali Akbar MOOSAVI-MOVAHEDI Astrophysics University of Kibungo (FTWAS) 60, Garden Street P.O. BOX: 06 Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Cambridge, MA 02138 Kibungo University of Tehran USA Rwanda Iran 128 Joyce NDALICHAKO 110 Claire LYNGÅ 119 Keto Elitabu MSHIGENI (FTWAS) Minister Research Advisor Vice-Chancellor Ministry for Education, Science, Unit for Research Cooperation Hubert Kairuki Memorial University Technology and Vocational Training Swedish International Development P.O. Box 65300 7 Magogoni Street, 11479 Cooperation Agency (Sida) Dar es Salaam P.O. Box 9121 Valhallavägen 199 Tanzania Dar es Salaam S-105 25 Stockholm Tanzania Sweden 120 Sylvie MUCYO Lecturer and Deputy Dean 111 Hemanta Kumar MAJUMDER (FTWAS) School of Agricultural Engineering and 129 Pacifique NDISHIMYE Raja Ramanna Fellow Environmental Management Head CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Kigali Biomedical Department 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Rwanda Institut d'Enséignement Supérieur (INES) Kolkata - 700 032, West Bengal de Ruhengeri India 121 Sunil MUKHI (FTWAS) Rwanda Chair and Senior Professor 112 Shirley MALCOM Indian Institute of Science Education and 130 Hudaa NEETO Director, Education and Human Research (IISER) Lecturer Resources Programs Homi Bhabha Road Faculty of Agriculture American Association for the Pashan, Pune 411 008 University of Mauritius Advancement of Science (AAAS) India Reduit, Moka 80837 1200 New York Avenue NW Mauritius Washington, DC 20005 122 Romain MURENZI (FTWAS) USA Director 131 Viêt Trung NGÔ (FTWAS) Division of Science Policy and Capacity Director 113 Papias MALIMBA MUSAFIRI Building Institute of Mathematics Minister Natural Sciences Sector (SC/PCB) Vietnamese Academy of Science and Ministry of Education United Nations Educational, Scientific and Technology (VAST) P.O. Box 622 Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, 10317 Bo Ho, Hanoi Kigali 7 place de Fontenoy Vietnam Rwanda 75700 Paris 07 SP France 132 Jean-Paul NGOME ABIAGA 114 Ranjan Kumar MALLIK (FTWAS) Deputy Executive Secretary, International Brigadier Bhopinder Singh Chair 123 Allen Rangia MUSHI Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) Professor Director Division of Science Policy and Capacity Department of Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Studies Building Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi University of Dar es Salaam Assistant Programme Specialist for (IIT,D) Dar es Salaam Mathematics and Physics Hauz Khas Tanzania UNESCO New Delhi 110016 7, Place de Fontenoy India 124 Theonest Kahangwa MUTABINGWA 75732 Paris Cedex 7, (FTWAS) France 115 Wendimagegn MAMMO DENEKE Hubert Kairuki Memorial University (FTWAS) 322 Regent Estate 133 Marian NKANSAH Department of Chemistry P.O. Box 65300 Department of Chemistry Addis Ababa University Dar-es-Salaam Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Miazia 27 Square, Arat Kilo Tanzania and Technology KNUST P.O. Box 1176 Ghana Addis Ababa Ethiopia TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 6
134 Antoine NSABIMANA 144 Hejun PAN 153 PIAO Shilong College of Science and Technology Ambassador Sino-French Institute for Earth System University of Rwanda Embassy of China Science KN 7 Ave, Kigali College of Urban and Environmental Kigali Rwanda Sciences Rwanda Peking University 145 Aniruddha Bhalchandra PANDIT Beijing (FTWAS) China 135 Florien NSANGANWIMANA Professor of Chemical Engineering Lecturer Chemical Engineering Department 154 Mohammad QAISER (FTWAS) University of Rwanda Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai Vice Chancellor College of Education Nathalal Parikh Road, Matunga (East) University of Karachi Kigali Mumbai, Maharashstra 400 019 Karachi-75270 Rwanda India Pakistan
136 Atunga NYACHIEO 146 Rahul PANDIT (FTWAS) 155 Frederick RAAB Senior Research Scientist Professor of Physics and Chairman Head Institute of Primate Research (IPR) Division of Physical & Mathematical LIGO Hanford Observatory WHO Collaborating Centre Sciences California Institute of Technology, LIGO P.O. Box 24481-00502 Karen Physics Department Hanford Observatory Nairobi Indian Institute of Science CALTECH Kenya Bangalore 560012 P.O.Box 159, Richland, WA 99352 India USA 137 Timothy Uzochukwu OBI (FTWAS) Professor of Veterinary Medicine 147 Immacolata PANNONE 156 Agepati Srinivasa RAGHAVENDRA Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Head of Scientific and Technological (FTWAS) Umudike Organisms - Scientific Cooperation Unit Dean Umuahia, Abia State Directorate General for Cultural and School of Life Sciences Nigeria Economic Promotion and Innovation Department of Plant Sciences Ministry of Foreign Affairs and University of Hyderabad 138 Emeka Emmanuel OGUZIE International Cooperation Hyderabad 500 046 Electrochemistry and Materials Science Piazzale della Farnesina 1 India Research Laboratory, Department of Rome, Italy Chemistry, 157 A. Venkata RAMA RAO (FTWAS) Federal University of Technology Owerri 148 Massimo PAOLI Managing Director PMB 1526, Owerri Programme Coordinator AVRA Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. Nigeria The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) 54, Sai Enclave, Habshiguda ICTP Campus Hyderabad 500 007 139 Bolanle Ade OJOKOH Strada Costiera 11 India Senior Lecturer 34151 Trieste Department of Computer Science Italy 158 Suryanarayana Sastry RAMASESHA Federal University of Technology (FTWAS) P.M.B. 704, Akure Professor Nigeria 149 PEI Gang (FTWAS) Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit President Indian Institute of Science 140 Francisca Nneka OKEKE (FTWAS) Tongji University 1239 Malleswaram, Bangalore 560 012 Department of Physics and Astronomy Siping Road India University of Nigeria, Nsukka Shanghai 200092 Nsukka China 159 Ramakrishna RAMASWAMY (FTWAS) Nigeria President, Indian Academy of Sciences 150 Daniel PELLICER COVARRUBIAS School of Physical Sciences 141 Samira OMAR ASEM (FTWAS) Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University Director General Centro de Ciencias Matematicas New Delhi 110 067 Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research National University of Mexico (UNAM) India (KISR) Campus Morelia P.O. Box 24885 Apartado Postal 61-3 (Xangari) 13109 Kuwait City C.P. 58089 Kuwait Morelia, Michoacan 160 C.N.R. RAO (FTWAS) Mexico Honorary President & Linus Pauling 142 Esther OROZCO (FTWAS) Research Professor Dean 151 Quoc Khanh PHAN (FTWAS) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Department of Infectomic and molecular Head Scientific Research (JNCASR) pathogenesis Department of Mathematics Jakkur P.O. CINVESTAV IPN International University, Vietnam National Bangalore 560 064 Ave. IPN # 2508 University Hochiminh City India Col San Pedro Zacatenco Linh Trung, Thu Duc Mexico D.F. CP 07360, AP 14-740 Hochiminh City 161 Mohan Chintalagiri RAO (FTWAS) Mexico Vietnam Former Director Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology 143 Sankar Kumar PAL (FTWAS) 152 Hoang Xuan PHU (FTWAS) Uppal Raod Distinguished Scientist Institute of Mathematics Hyderabad 500 007 Indian Statistical Institute Vietnamese Academy of Science and India Machine Intelligence Unit Technology (VAST) 203, B.T. Road 18 Hoang Quoc Viet 162 Thomas ROSSWALL (FTWAS) Kolkata 700 108 Cau Giay District Bellmansgatan 5 India 10307 Hanoi 118 20 Stockholm Vietnam Sweden TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 7
163 Stephen RULISA 172 Yousef SOBOUTI (FTWAS) 181 Jennifer THOMSON Rwanda President OWSD President College of Medical and Heahtlth Sciences Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic University of Cape Town University of Rwanda Sciences (IASBS) Cape Town Kigali P.O. Box 45195-1159 South Africa Rwanda Zanjan 45138 96149 Iran, Islamic Republic 164 Elly Nyambobo SABIITI (FTWAS) 182 Moctar TOURE (FTWAS) Makerere University/Uganda National 173 Ranbir Chander SOBTI (FTWAS) National Academy of Science and Academy of Sciences (UNAS) Vice-Chancellor Technology Department of Agricultural Production Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Rue A X Rue E, Point-E School of Agricultural Sciences, Makerere Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road PO Box 25732 University Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226025 Dakar P.O. Box 7062 India Senegal Kampala Uganda 174 Ajay Kumar SOOD (FTWAS) 183 Sandip TRIVEDI Department of Physics Director and Senior Professor 165 Stefano SALMASO Indian Institute of Science Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Secretary of Legation, Diplomat Bangalore 560 012 Homi Bhabha Road India Colaba Scientific and Technological Cooperation Mumbai 400005 Unit 175 Sudhir Kumar SOPORY (FTWAS) India Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Arturo Falaschi Emeritus Scientist International Cooperation International Centre for Genetic 184 Baljinova TSETSEG (FTWAS) Piazzale Farnesina 1 Engineering and Biotechnology Head Rome Aruna Asaf Ali Road Laboratory of Microbiology Italy New Delhi 110067 Institute of Biology India Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS) 166 Ylann SCHEMM Ulaanbaatar-51 Programme Director 176 Samia SUBRINA Mongolia Elsevier Foundation Associate Professor Radarweg 29 Department of Electrical and Electronic 185 Elioda TUMWESIGYE 1043 NX Amsterdam, NL Engineering Minister The Netherlands Bangladesh University of Engineering and Ministry for Science, Technology and Technology (BUET) Innovation 167 Flavia SCHLEGEL Dhaka 1205 Etoori Johnie Bosco Assistant-Director-General Natural Bangladesh Plot 6 Kimera Road, Ntinda Sciences P.O. Box 6884 United Nations Educational, Cultural and 177 Kalulu TABA (FTWAS) Kampala Scientific Organization (UNESCO) University of Kinshasa Uganda 7 place de Fontenoy Faculty of Sciences 75700 Paris 07 SP B.P. 190 France Kinshasa XI D.R. Congo 186 Vaughan TUREKIAN 168 Giusto SCIARABBA Science and Technology Adviser to the Advisor to Executive Director, TWAS 178 TAN Tieniu (FTWAS) Secretary of State The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Vice President, Chinese Academy of U.S. Department of State ICTP Campus Sciences 2201 C St. NW, Suite 3240 Strada Costiera 11 CAS Institute of Automation Washington DC 20520 34151 Trieste 95 Zhong Guan Cun East Road USA Italy Beijing 100190 China 187 Ramamurty UPADRASTA 169 Mohammad SHAMSHER ALI (FTWAS) Department of Materials Engineering Immediate Past President 179 Abdel Nasser TAWFIK (FTWAS) Indian Institute of Science Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Director C.V. Raman Avenue Road Southeast University Egyptian Center for Theoretical Physics Bangalore 560012 House 64/B, Road 18 MTI University India Banani, Dhaka 1213 Al-Hadaba Al-Wusta Bangladesh Al-Mukattam 188 Bishal Nath UPRETI (FTWAS) Cairo Academician Nepal Academy of Science 170 SHI Yong (FTWAS) Egypt and Technology Director Department of Geology The Key Lab of Big Data Mining and 180 George THOMPSON Tribhuvan University Knowledge Management, Chinese Head 205, Dhobidhara, Kumari Marg Academy of Sciences Office of Strategic Planning and Dillibazar, Kathmandu-33 No. 80, Zhongguancun East Road, Education Nepal Haidian District, Beijing 100190 Abdus Salam ICTP China Strada Costiera 11 189 Claudine UWERA Trieste College of Business and Economics 171 Bijay SINGH Italy University of Rwanda Principal Investigator/Member of Board of Kigali Directors Rwanda Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology (RIBB) Baburam Acharya Sadak, Sinamangal, Kathmandu Nepal TWAS 27th General Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda, 14-17 November 2016 List of Participants - Page 8
190 Annette UWINEZA 198 XIAO Feng 206 ZHENG Xiaojing (FTWAS) Lecturer in Clinical Biology Associate Professor President School of Medicine State Key Laboratory of Environmental Xidian Univeristy College of Medicine and Health sciences Aquatic Chemistry n. 2 South Taibai Raod University of Rwanda Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Xi'an 710071 Kigali Sciences China Rwanda RCEES, CAS 18# Shuangqing Road 207 ZHENG Xiaoying 191 Ashok Kumar VIJH (FTWAS) Haidian District Director Maître de Recherche Beijing 100085 Institute of Population Research Hydro-Quebec Institute of Research China WHO Collaborating Center of 1800 Blvd. Lionel Boulet Reproductive Health and Population Varennes, Quebec 199 XIE Yi (FTWAS) Sciences J3X 1S1 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Peking University Canada Sciences at Microscale Beijing 100871 Department of Chemistry China 192 Spenta Rustom WADIA (FTWAS) University of Science and Technology of Distinguished Professor China 208 ZHOU Xingjiang International Centre for Theoretical Hefei, Anhui 230023 Institute of Physics Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) China Chinese Academy of Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Beijing 100190 (Bangalore) 200 Ganapati Dadasaheb YADAV (FTWAS) China Survey No 151, Shivakote, Hesaraghatta Vice-Chancellor Bengaluru, Karnataka 560089 Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) India Nathalal Parekh Marg Matunga, Mumbai 400 019 193 WANG Shouyang (FTWAS) India Vice President Academy of Mathematics and Systems 201 Emad Al-Sarraj YOUSIF Science/Center for Forecasting Science Associate Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences Department of Chemistry Zhongguancun East Road No.55 College of Science Beijing 100190 Al-Nahrain University China Baghdad Iraq 194 Annica WAYMAN Division Chief 202 YUAN Yaxiang (FTWAS) U.S. Agency for International Academy of Mathematics and Systems Development (USAID) Science 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Chinese Academy of Sciences Room 5.7-116A Zhong Guan Cun Washington, DC 20523 Beijing USA China
195 Stanley WHITCOMB 203 Khatijah Mohamad YUSOFF (FTWAS) Chief Scientist Dean LIGO Laboratory Faculty of Biotechnology and California Institute of Technology Biomolecular Sciences M/S 100-36, Pasadena, CA 91125 Universiti Putra Malaysia USA 43400 UPM, Serdang Selangor DE 196 Christian Andrés Marcelo WILSON Malaysia MOYA Assistant Professor 204 Patricia ZANCAN Laboratorio de Bioquímica Associate Professor Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Laboratório de Oncobiologia Molecular – Farmacéuticas LabOMol Universidad de Chile Departamento de Biotecnologia Santos Dumont 964, Independencia Farmacêutica 8380494 Santiago Faculdade de Farmácia Chile Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ 197 WONG Henry Nai Ching (FTWAS) Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373 Head of New Asia College Rio de Janeiro – RJ – 21941-902 Head's Office, New Asia College Brazil The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories 205 ZHAO Dongyuan (FTWAS) Hong Kong SAR Professor China Department of Chemistry Fudan University 220 Handan Road Shanghai 200433 China