These two institutions are among the most prestigious in China. The Institute of Materials at Wuham University is the best in the field of materials among the 4500 institutes in the country and the fifth best institute in China. The Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is considered the second best in all of China in the field of Sciences.
This distinction recognises the academic and research merit of the professor, who has published more than 700 papers during his career and has won more than 14 international and national awards and distinctions for his work over the past 10 years.
In addition to being a professor at NOVA FCT, Rodrigo Martins is Director of the Centre of Excellence in Microelectronics and Optoelectronic Processes of the Institute for the Development of New Technologies (CEMOP/UNINOVA) and President of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and past President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS).
Professor Rodrigo Martins, President of the European Academy of Sciences will be present in the inaugural meeting that takes place in the Southeast University, Nanjing, China, on 21st July 2023. Professor Martins will also integrate the editorial board that accounts with reputed scientists such as Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, professor Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (https://www.chem.ubc.ca/mark-maclachlan) and professor John A Rogers, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, (https://rogersgroup.northwestern.edu/index.php)
Intelligent responsive materials have emerged as a crucial direction in the development of modern high-tech materials, supporting the advancement of future cutting-edge technologies. Responsive Materials, a journal jointly founded by Southeast University and Wiley Press, focuses on various stimuli-responsive functional materials and addresses globally challenging scientific topics in the fields of chemistry, materials science and engineering, energy, environment, medicine, intelligent living, and other emerging areas.
We expect that IAMS will provide a forum for leading chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and junior researchers to present and discuss the most exciting new developments in responsive materials and related fields.
Professor Roger Falconer was honored with the Chinese Government Friendship Award and Medal from Dr Zhu Jiang, Deputy Director, International Economic and Technical Cooperation and Exchange Centre (INTCE), Ministry of Water Resources.
‘The Friendship Award is the highest award to commend foreign experts’ who have ‘made contributions to China’s modernization drive’ and I have benefitted immensely from collaborating with Chinese scholars and practitioners since 1981.
Professor Falconer first started collaborating with China through Tongji University and have since worked with several leading universities and government institutes.
Examples include:
(i) Tongji University: designing harbours and marinas to maximise water quality; (ii) Tsinghua University: developing a model CONTANK to reduce chlorine levels in disinfection tanks; (iv) Tianjin University and Municipal Government: modelling Bohai Bay and Sea to balance economic development of the Bay for increased shipping, balanced with minimal environmental impact; (v) Wuhan University: developing urban models and formulations for stability of people and vehicles in floods; (vi) Hohai University and the Yangtse Institute for Conservation and Presentation: collaborating on global water security and sustainable water management.
Through these collaborations and Honorary Professor appointments at several universities and institutes, Falconer had the opportunity of co-authoring over 120 journal publications with Chinese scholars.
Whilst in China Prof. Falconer also visited the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) to receive the certificate of election as a Foreign Member in 2019 and delivered the second CAE Lead Lecture on ‘Global Water Security: Modelling for Sustainable Flood, Water Quality and Health Risk Assessment’ at a CAE LEADS and IWHR River Dialogue Livestreaming event.
The European Academy of Sciences congratulates Professor Roger Falconer for such a distinguished recognition that honours and enhances Prof’s whole professional career as well as our Academy.
We have the pleasure to announce the Leonardo da Vinci Award and Blaise Pascal Medallists 2023.
The awards will be presented at the Annual Symposium of the Academy on Oct. 23-24, 2023, in Madrid Spain.
Leonardo da Vinci Award – Professor J. N. Reddy
The European Academy of Sciences is very pleased to announce that Professor Junuthua N. Reddy, the Distinguished and Regents’ Professor at Texas A&M University, has been named the recipient of the 2023 Leonardo da Vinci Award, the Academy’s highest honor. Dr. Reddy is being recognized for his original and continuing contributions to research and educational activities related to composite materials and structures. In addition, Dr. Reddy is internationally renowned and highly cited for his research in the fields of applied and computational mechanics.
Blaise Pascal Medallist in Engineering – Professor George Z. Voyiadjis
In recognition of his contributions in Plasticity and Damage Modelling of Material Behaviour, including the bridging of length scales. He presently is the Boyd Chair Professor, the Bingham C. Stewart Distinguished Chair Professor, and the Holder of the Freeport-Mac MoRan Endowed Chair in Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge (LA), USA, and also the Director of Center for GeoInformatics at the same University. Professor Voyiadjis is Foreign Member of different scientific Academies in Europe and Asia, and was the recipient of several prestigious awards: Nadai Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Doctorate hc from Poznan University of Technology, Poland, Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Khan International Medal for outstanding life-long contribution to the field of Plasticity, Nathan M. Newmark Medal from ASCE, Most Cited Author 2005-2008 of the International Journal of Solids and Structures, Elsevier (Gradient Plasticity Theory with a Variable Length Scale Parameter).
Blaise Pascal Medallist in Physics – Professor Riccardo Betti
In recognition for his outstanding contributions to high temperature plasma physics with applications to nuclear fusion and for the development of the novel “shock ignition” approach to direct-drive inertial confinement fusion. One of the most prominent figures on the international scene of inertial fusion, he is the Robert L. McCrory Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, and Chief Scientist of the UR Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He received the Edward Teller Medal from the American Nuclear Society and the E.O.Lawrence Award from the US Department of Energy. He co-authored over 200 peer reviewed papers. He received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.
Blaise Pascal Medallist in Materials Scince – Professor George Malliaras
In recognition for his contributions as a pioneer in science and technology of organic electronic materials. He is widely considered a founding father of organic bioelectronics, a field that applies organic electronic materials to biology and medicine. Professor Malliaras is one of the world’s foremost researchers in the field of soft electronic devices, who has made major contributions to our understanding of organic electronic and bioelectronic devices. He has made significant impacts in a number of areas including: understanding charge injection at metalorganic interfaces; patterning of organic electronic materials; understanding mixed conduction in organic electronic materials; development of mixed semiconductor devices; and the use of organic devices as brain interfaces.
Blaise Pascal Medallist in Mathematics – Professor Athanassios S. Fokas
In recognition for his exceptional contributions in the field that have solved a number of important problems but have also contributed to a number of important translational fields including engineering and medicine. DR. Fokas has made seminal contributions to the solution of a large class of nonlinear partial differential equations, occurring in a wide range of interdisciplinary applications, from two-phase flow in porous media to nonlinear optics.
The impact of Dr. Fokas’ work in various fields has been phenomenal. He introduced the so-called inverse spectral method which has led to the solution of several physically important equations arising in water waves, in plasma physics and in nonlinear optics. Regarding the transformative Fokas method, the citation in his Aristeion prize noted that this is “the most important development in the solution of partial differential equations since Fourier, Laplace and Cauchy”.
Blaise Pascal Medallist in Medicine and Life Sciences – Professor Patrick Couvreur
In recognition for his widely recognized work as a seminal scientist in the field of nanotechnologies for drug delivery and imaging sciences. Prof. Couvreur has been pioneering the field of biomaterials for nanomedicines. He has introduced for the first time the design of polyacrylamide nanoparticles and nanocapsules for the intracellular delivery of compounds which cannot diffuse into cells. The exceptional inventive contribution of Pr. Couvreur is further demonstrated by the introduction of squalene grafting to drugs, which leads to self-forming biodegradable nanoparticles able to deliver a high amount of drugs to various tissues. At the international level, his a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Medicine (USA), Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA), Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium (Belgium), Foreign Member of the Spanish Academy of Pharmacy (Spain), International fellow of the Japanese Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology (Japan). He has held several ERC grants and been member of the ERC Board.
Professor Mohan Edirisinghe OBE FREng, Bonfield Chair of Biomaterials at University College London (UCL), is to be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Colin Campbell Mitchell Award 2023.
The annual award, which carries a £3,000 prize, goes to an engineer or small team of engineers who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of any field of UK engineering. It will be presented at the Academy’s AGM in London on 19 September.
The Colin Campbell Mitchell Award commemorates the life and work of one of Scotland’s most accomplished marine engineers. Edinburgh-born Colin Campbell Mitchell OBE FRSE (1904-69) had a long and distinguished career with Brown Brothers Engineering, where he pioneered the development of the steam catapult for use on aircraft carriers. Awarded to an individual or team of up to six engineers, either working or studying in the UK, the Colin Campbell Mitchell Award is given for the greatest contribution to the advancement of any field of engineering within the period of the four years prior to the making of the award. A cash prize of £3,000 will be awarded to an individual, up to a maximum of £6,000 for a team.
Professor Edirisinghe, who is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences since 2020, is recognised for his world-leading contribution to the industrial application of polymeric fibres by inventing novel fibre manufacturing vessels and processes. He has pioneered a process called pressurised gyration, which can simultaneously combine flow rate, applied pressure and rotation speed and is applicable to all types of polymers worldwide.
On October 23rd-24th, 2023 the EurASc Symposium 2023 & Ceremony will take place in Madrid by invitation of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España –SPAIN.
The Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España, since its founding Statutes approved by the Royal Order of 25 February 1847, has the task of promoting the study and research of Mathematical, Physical, Chemical, Geological and Biological Sciences, and their applications, as well as to spread knowledge of them. Among its main functions is that of advising the Government on matters within its competence, particularly those of scientific policy that may have a bearing on the country’s scientific and technological development. Similarly, the Academy undertakes other tasks, such as organising meetings and seminars on the aforementioned specialities, publishing its journal and scientific reports, as well as other types of reports or studies, establishing and defining scientific and technical terminology, ensuring the appropriateness of the language, awarding prizes, etc.
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This event promotes the opportunity to discuss and exchange views on the latest discoveries, as well as to strengthen scientific and technical collaborations. In this way, an excellent forum for the dissemination of scientific and technical results.
For all these reasons, we invite you to take part in this international symposium by joining us as a Sponsor.
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Madrid is the capital of Spain, and is home to the Spanish Royal family as well as the Spanish Government. It is a modern metropolitan city and an economical and industrial center of Spain, and, with its population of nearly 3,5 million people, is also the biggest city in Spain.
It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and is surrounded by mountains and natural parks. Although it is located in the centre of the country, it has traditionally been the hub between different areas of Spain and is therefore connected to all major Spanish cities by train, road or air.
The weather in Madrid varies a lot depending on the season, from hot and dry in the summer, with temperature of approx. 29C-¦ / 85F-¦, to cold (4C-¦ / 39F-¦) and with some rain in the winter.
Attractions
Madrid has a lot of interesting attractions that offer both culture and amusement. The city is full of great monuments, like the royal palace, the Plaza Mayor or the many statuettes, and for people interested in art, the museums Del Prado, Reina Sofia or Thyssen have some of the most fantastic collections of famous Spanish painters like Velazquez, Goya, Picasso or Miro.
If you like to be entertained, Madrid has two big amusements parks (including the new Warner Bros park) and there are regular international concerts, big flea markets, parades and other activities going on.
To sport enthusiasts Madrid can offer everything from skiing (only 1 hour away by bus) during the winter, to golf all year round, as well as international sporting events and the possibility to practice nearly any sport at the University facilities.
If you like going out at night, Madrid has a very interesting nightlife throughout the whole week and which is available all year round. You can either go out for a tapa (Spanish snack), eat at a very nice restaurant, go to the cinema or one of the many theatres, or find nearly any type of bar or disco.
Research director at the Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes, where she explores different aspects of chirality.
Jeanne Crassous’ research revolves around enantiomers, pairs of molecules made up of the same atoms, but whose 3D structure is the mirror image of each other. The phenomenon is called chirality. Jeanne Crassous has been following this path since obtaining a doctorate in organic chemistry in 1996. It gradually focused on helicenes. These helical molecules interact with light and modify its polarization, ie the orientation of the electromagnetic wave carried by the beam, and this differently depending on whether their helix turns to the right or to the left. This “chiroptic” property makes them interesting candidates for organic light-emitting diodes, or systems coded like watermarks.
On this, the first anniversary of the Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation, the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) reiterates its original condemnation of this illegal military action:
”Today, February 24th 2022, the world witnessed the start of a war in Ukraine. We have reached a crucial junction for human civilization which calls for efforts towards sustainable development, as the only possibility for lasting global prosperity. As scientists and scholars, we wish to promote values such as dialogue, diplomacy and peace. Our Academy expresses solidarity and support for all those who are affected and reaffirms its aim of using knowledge and education to unite people, nations and cultures towards a peaceful and sustainable future for all living species on our planet.” – A call for dialogue and peace from the European Academy of Sciences – EurASc, February 24th
Frontiers in Agronomy, in collaboration with the Chief Editors Prof. John R Porter and Prof Monica Höfte, is organizing a webinar for International Women’s Day to reflect on challenges and opportunities for women in the field.
The webinar is taking place on March 8th at 10 am CET.
You are invited to nominate candidates for the Blaise Pascal Medals and the Leonardo da Vinci Award. You can nominate members of the European Academy of Sciences or non-members.
Up to 6 Blaise Pascal Medals can be awarded, after proper selection within the scientific committee of each division and only one Leonardo da Vinci is awarded, to be selected by presidium, after propositions made by the different divisions.
The nominations files should be sent each to the head of the concerned division. Each file must be combined in 1 PDF and contain :
CV of the nominee : maximum 5 pages;
Letter(s) of nomination : 1 or 2 pages;
2 support letters : maximum 2 pages for each
(please note that each letter should be written from a different person – the nominator cannot write them all).
