Archive for January, 2012
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Jan 24
David Fahy
ESOF2012 Programme Director Phone: 00 353 87 6143168 E-mail: david.fahy@chiefscientificadviser.ie
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Jan 24
Dr. Eamonn Cahill
ESOF2012 Programme Manager Phone: +353 1 607 3053 E-mail: eamonn.cahill@chiefscientificadviser.ie
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Jan 24
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was appointed European Commissioner with responsibility for research, innovation and science in February 2010. Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn has responsibility for the 7th EU Research and Technological Framework Programme 2007–2013, which is the largest publicly funded research programme in the world, and recently made proposals for the next Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, which proposes [...]
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Jan 23
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Jan 23
Huanming Yang
Dr. Yang is the co-founder and President of BGI, one of the major genomics centers in the world. He and his collaborators have made a significant contribution to theInternational HGP, HapMap, Cancer Genomeand 1000 Genomes Projects, as well as to the Asian genomes, human pan-genome, ancient genomes, gut metagenomes, exomes and mythylome. BGI has also [...]
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Jan 23
Test Team Member
Test Team Member
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Jan 22
Charles F. Bolden, Jr
Charles F. Bolden, Jr. (major general, USMC Ret.) NASA ADMINISTRATOR Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, retired Marine Corps Major General Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., began his duties as the twelfth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on July 17, 2009. As Administrator, he leads the NASA team [...]
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Jan 21
Alvaro Giménez Cañete
Alvaro Giménez graduated in physics (1978) and obtained a PhD in astrophysics (1981). After additional studies in Manchester, Basel and Copenhagen, he joined the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as a lecturer of stellar astrophysics until 1987 when he moved to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada. Interested in the use of space [...]
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Jan 21
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Elders and the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom [...]
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Jan 21
Jules Hoffmann
2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. J. Hoffmann is Professor at the University of Strasbourg and has spent most of his career working with the French National Research Agency CNRS. The studies of the Hoffmann laboratory have been devoted over the last 30 years to unravelling the mechanisms of antimicrobial defenses in Diptera, namely in Drosophila. They have [...]
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Jan 21
Lars Steinmetz
Dr. Lars Steinmetz is one of the world’s leading scientists at the forefront of genetics and genomics research.He obtained his undergraduate degree from Yale University and a PhD in 2002 from Stanford University. At the age of 27, he started his own research group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2009, [...]
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Jan 21
Kári Stefánsson
Kári Stefánsson, M.D., Dr. Med. founded deCODE in August 1996. Dr. Stefánsson was previously a professor of Neurology, Neuropathology and Neuroscience at Harvard University and Director of Neuropathology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1983 to 1993, he held faculty positions in Neurology, Neuropathology and Neurosciences at the University of Chicago. Dr. Stefánsson [...]
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Jan 21
Regina Palkovits
Regina Palkovits is Associate Professor for Nanostructured Catalysts at RWTH Aachen. She studied chemical engineering at the Technical University Dortmund and carried out her Ph.D. in the group of Prof. FerdiSchüth at the Max-Planck-InstitutfürKohlenforschung. After a research stay in the group of Prof. Bert Weckhuysen at UtrechtUniversity, she returned as a group leader to the [...]
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Jan 21
Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and a founding member of the European Research Council. In 2007 she was elected ERC Vice President and in March 2010 succeeded FotisKafatos as President of the ERC. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, NY. [...]
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Jan 21
Christian Keysers
Department Head, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (KNAW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Full Professor for the Social Brain, Department for Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen. Christian Keysers (1973) is full professor and heads the Social Brain department at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. German and French-born, after a PhD with David [...]
