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Gernot Döllner. Gernot Döllner (born in 1969) is a German engineer, business executive, and CEO of AUDI AG. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Group. He heads the Progressive Brand Group, which includes Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Ducati. Previously, Döllner served as Chief Strategist and Secretary-General of the Volkswagen Group. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Sauber Motorsport AG.

Education 
Döllner hails from Bückeburg in Lower Saxony. He studied mechanical engineering, focusing on construction and vehicle technology, at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of Waterloo. In 1996, Döllner earned his Doctorate in Engineering.

Career 
Döllner began his career at the Volkswagen Group in Wolfsburg. In 1998, he joined Porsche in Stuttgart. During his time there, he has worked as project manager for the Porsche 918 Spyder and head of the Panamera series from 2011 to 2018. His last role at Porsche was as Head of Product and Concept.

In 2021, Döllner returned to Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, where he took over the management of corporate strategy, product strategy, and the corporate secretariat. He played a crucial role in the company's shift towards electric mobility.

On September 1, 2023, Döllner was appointed as the Chairman of the Audi Board of Management. Additionally, he joined the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Group, where he took charge of the entire Progressive Brand Group, including Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Ducati. He accelerated Audi's electric mobility transition with a significant product initiative. In March 2024, he took over responsibility for the development department of Audi.

In 2023, Döllner was elected to the Supervisory Board of FC Bayern Munich and became the Deputy Chairman of the committee. Audi is a sponsor and shareholder of the Bundesliga football club.

References

External links 
 Audi official website

Chief executives in the automobile industry
Audi people
20th-century German businesspeople
21st-century German businesspeople
People from Bückeburg
1969 births
Living people
Gravity-1. Gravity-1 () is a solid-propellant expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed, manufactured and launched by Chinese aerospace company Orienspace. It can carry a payload of up to  to LEO or  to SSO, enabling the deployment of large-scale satellite constellations. The rocket has a height of 30 meters, a take-off weight of 400 tonnes, a take-off thrust of 600 tonnes, and a fairing diameter of 4.2 meters. Its maiden launch was conducted from a sea launch platform in the Yellow Sea on January 11, 2024, breaking records as both the world's most powerful solid-fuel carrier rocket and China's most powerful commercial launch vehicle to date. Large pieces of debris were seen during the launch, which carried 3 Yunyao-1 meteorological satellites built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, as part of the planned 90-satellite Yunyao constellation.

Gravity-1 consists of seven solid rocket motors (SRB) in total. The first four side-mounted SRBs are ignited on the ground, while three core boosters are air-lit in sequence. The launch cost for Gravity-1 is no higher than US$39 million. Gravity-1 offers a quick-response-time of only five hours between manufacturing completion and launch. Orienspace has signed contracts for the launch of more than one hundred satellites.

List of launches

References

Vehicles introduced in 2024
2024 in spaceflight
Sachidananda Kangovi. Sachidananda Kangovi (born August 25, 1948), also known as Sach Kangovi, is an American technology executive, aerospace engineer, author, and developer of the 'Service Linked Multi-State' system (SLIMS), a part of the Telecom provisioning and activation system. He was also involved in the development of a facility to test exhaust flow from rocket and jet engines, designated by National Aerospace Laboratory.

Early life 
Sachidananda Kangovi, born in the Indian city of Bengaluru on August 25, 1948, earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College and a master's degree from Indian Institute of Science. His doctoral studies were at Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey from where he got his Ph.D. in 1977, under the guidance of Dr. Robert H. Page.

Career
He started his career as a senior scientist at National Aerospace Laboratory in 1971 before moving to the US in 1982, to work on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) at Boeing, and Johnson & Johnson. Later, he worked on information technology at Comcast, AT&T and erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, an India-based global IT Company as the vice president of Telecom sector. He also was an adjunct professor at DeVry University, in its School of Business and Management.

Achievements 
Kangovi designed and developed a test facility called 'Base Flow Facility' to study the effect of exhaust flows from rocket engines and jet engines on thrust as well as control surface effectiveness and this facility has been designated as one of the world's most exceptional and one-of-a -kind testing facilities by the National Aerospace Laboratory. At Comcast as Design Lead and Distinguished Engineer, Kangovi spearheaded a team of designers to develop the Service Linked Multi-State (SLIMS) System, a critical part of Telecommunication provisioning and customer activation system. His work on Service Linked Multi-State (SLIMS) earned him several US and global patents. As a Senior Enterprise Architect at AT&T, Kangovi worked on the end-to-end solution architecture of OSS/BSS system for the MEF standard-based External Network-to-Network Interface (ENNI) project, an AT&T initiative called Velocity IP (VIP) and Fiber Broadband Services (FBS). While at AT&T, he authored a reference book titled Peering Carrier Ethernet Networks published by Elsevier in 2017. His another book The Law of Disorder is being cited by many researchers in their theses/papers.

Books

See also 

 Network-to-network interface
 Computational fluid dynamics

References

External links 
 
 
 

1948 births
Living people
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
American engineers
American people of Indian descent
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Rutgers University alumni
AT&T people
Comcast people
American engineering writers
American non-fiction writers
No. 5 Squadron RSAF. No. 5 Squadron RSAF is a squadron of the Royal Saudi Air Force that operates the McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle and the F-15D at King Fahad Air Base, Taif, Mecca Province in Saudi Arabia within RSAF 2 Wing.

In the 1950s, the Saudi Air Force began major developments, which led to its first squadrons being established.
In 1958, the No. 5 Squadron RSAF was established in Jeddah Airport, equipped with 20 De Havilland Vampires.

References

05
Ilya Malyshev. Ilya Ilyich Malyshev was a Soviet statesman and Minister of Geology of the USSR from 1946 to 1949.

Biography 
In 1930, he graduated from the Ural Mining Institute with a degree in mining engineering and exploration geology.

From 1930 to 1932, he worked as deputy director of the Ural branch of the Institute of Applied Mineralogy in the city of Sverdlovsk.

From 1932 to 1935, he was a graduate student at the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad and Moscow. From 1935 to 1937 he was a senior researcher at the USSR Academy of Sciences.

From 1937 to 1939, he was the Deputy Head of the Main Geological Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR.

From 1939 to 1946, he was the Chairman of the Committee for Geological Affairs of the USSR, and Minister of Geology of the USSR, he was removed from this position in connection with the Krasnoyarsk Affair.

From 1949 to 1952, he was the head of the North-Western Geological Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Geology in Petrozavodsk.

From 1952 to 1957, he worked at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials as senior researcher and head of the titanium sector.

From 1957 to 1971, he was the Chairman of the State Commission for Mineral Reserves under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Earned a Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences in 1958.

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery. In 2006, a new mineral, Malyshevite, was named in his honor.

Membership in organizations 
1932 - Member of the VKP(b).

Awards
 Order of Lenin
 Order of the October Revolution
 Order of the Red Banner of Labor (three times).

References

External links 
 Malyshev I. I.   (original link is dead but a January 2015 archived version can be found here) - Perm region. Encyclopedia.
 Библиография 

Soviet geologists
20th-century Russian geologists
1904 births
1973 deaths
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
Petropars. PetroPars () is an Iranian oil and gas engineering services company, which is a subsidiary of NICO and a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company.

History
Petropars Company was established in 1997 by the Naftiran Intertrade (subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company) with the aim of implementing the development plan of South Pars Phase 1 as an Iranian capital general contractor company using the buyback method. The company's headquarters is located in Tehran. Petropars' main activity so far has been focused on the development of gas fields, the bulk of which relates to the development projects of Phases 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 19 of the South Pars gas field. Other projects carried out by this company include the development of Kish gas field, the development of Farzad gas field, as well as the development of Cabinda North field and revamping an oil export terminal in Venezuela.

Between 2008 and 2009, Petropars progressed towards privatization, and in the first stage, the Privatization Organization estimated the base price of 61% of its shares, equivalent to 2120 billion Iranian Rial, which was transferred to a consortium consisting of Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters, and Astan Quds Razavi, [8] but after a while, due to non-fulfillment of commitments and invalidity of bank documents, this contract was not implemented.

Notes

National Iranian Oil Company
Iranian companies established in 1997
No. 1 Squadron RSAF. No. 1 Squadron RSAF is a squadron of the Royal Saudi Air Force that operates from King Salman Air Base at King Salman International Airport, Riyadh, Riyadh Province in Saudi Arabia within RSAF 1 Wing.

The squadron uses the:

It used to fly the Boeing 707-320, Lockheed C-140B JetStar, Agusta-Bell 206A and the AS-61A-4.

References

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No. 8 Squadron RSAF. No. 8 Squadron RSAF is a squadron of the Royal Saudi Air Force that operates the Cirrus SR22T at the King Faisal Air Academy, King Salman Air Base at King Salman International Airport, Riyadh, Riyadh Province in Saudi Arabia.

It used to fly the Cessna 172G/H/M at Riyadh.

References

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Iranian plateau water transfer project. A water transfer project to the central Iranian plateau has been developed by the Iranian government. The program is to bring water from the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf after desalination to 7 to 16 Iranian provinces. It will take drinking water to Sistan and Baluchistan cities water network by 2024. Its current budget is as of 2021 around $285 billion. Around 3700 kilometer pipe has been laid for the program.
There are three phases for the program, phase 4 has been added. 190 corporations are share holders. Phase 1 has been put operational.

Construction / scope
The WASCO Persian Gulf Water supply and transfer corporation has been in charge of the project.
Water pipes network are steel pipes.

Drinking water will be supplied to Kerman.

Criticism
The projects could cause ecological issues.

References

Iranian plateau
Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources. The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) is a national organization in Pakistan that conducts research and provides recommendations on water resources management and quality. The council plays a crucial role in addressing the country's water scarcity issues, ensuring the safety of bottled water, and collaborating with international partners to combat water-related challenges.

History

Act
In 2023, the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources Act underwent a revision. This revision, referred to as the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (Amendment) Act, 2023, was approved by the President on April 11, 2023. The amendment replaced Section 16 of the Act, which details the council's power to hire employees, engage experts, advisers, and consultants, and establish their terms and conditions.

Bottled water safety
The PCRWR consistently checks the quality of bottled water within the country. A recent report from the council revealed that 25 brands of bottled water were deemed unfit for human consumption due to either microbiological or chemical contamination. These unsafe brands were identified to contain excessive levels of sodium, elevated levels of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), high levels of potassium, or were found to be tainted with bacteria.

Collaboration with China
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has also entered into a partnership with China to assist Pakistan in addressing water-related issues. The objective of this Pak-China collaboration is to employ technical methods to manage water resources, which could aid Pakistan in dealing with the impacts of climate change and associated disasters.

Water scarcity in Pakistan

Pakistan is grappling with a serious water crisis, with numerous regions of the country suffering from intense water shortages. By 2025, the country is predicted to shift from being 'water-stressed' to 'water-starved'. Climate change further intensifies the water scarcity, leading to unpredictable weather patterns and severe weather occurrences like floods and droughts.

Addressing the water crisis
Addressing the water crisis necessitates collaborative efforts at various levels. There is an immediate need for the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to the evolving climate, and build resilience against the already occurring impacts. This involves the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices, such as the cultivation of drought-resistant crops, enhanced water management techniques, and improved soil conservation practices. The pressing need to tackle the water crisis has been underscored, with practical suggestions for a sustainable future being put forward.

References

Government agencies of Pakistan
Water in Pakistan
Research institutes in Pakistan
Water organizations

External links
  – official website
Enrica Bordignon. Enrica Bordignon (born 5 April 1975) is an Italian chemist and Chair of Electron Spin Resonance at the University of Geneva. Her research involves the development of electron paramagnetic resonance to study membrane potentials.

Early life and education 
Bordignon was an undergraduate student and doctoral researcher at the University of Padua. Her doctoral research investigated the photo-physical properties of reaction centres in antenna complexes. During her doctorate she worked at Berlin's Max Volmer Laboratory. She completed her undergraduate studies summa cum laude in 1999. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Osnabrück University and ETH Zurich. At Osnabrück Bordignon studied bacterial photoaxis membrane protein complexes (including Neuropeptide S receptors) and ABC-transporters (including Escherichia coli) using spin labelling. At Zurich Bordignon continued to apply spin labelling to investigate the ATP-binding cassette transporters, including BtuCD-F vitamin B12 importer.

Research and career 
In 2013 Bordignon was made a professor of biophysics at the Free University of Berlin. Her research uses site-directed spin labelling EPR to understand the dynamics and conformational changes of membrane proteins. Membrane proteins are the targets of many pharmaceuticals. Transporter membranes move substances in and out of the cellular environment. Bordignon has shown that EPR can be used to study membrane potentials in situ, i.e. in cells.  She has particularly developed double electron–electron resonance (DEER), which can be used to monitor one system of spins while exciting another set of spins at a second microwave frequency. She was the first to use spin-labelled nanobodies to report cellular membrane potentials. She moved to the Ruhr University Bochum in 2016. She was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Geneva in 2021, and made Vice Dean for Science in 2023.

Awards and honours 

 2004 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
 2011 IES Young Investigator Award
 2016 Ampere Prize for Young Investigator

Select publications

Personal life 
Bordignon has one child.

References 

Living people
1975 births
University of Padua alumni
Academic staff of the University of Geneva
21st-century Italian chemists
Italian women chemists
Hanne Ludvigsen. Hanne Ludvigsen is an optical engineer. Educated in Denmark and Finland, she works in Finland as senior university lecturer in the Aalto University Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering. Her research involves microstructured optical fibers and their applications in optical sensing and supercontinuum generation.

Education
Ludvigsen earned a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from Aarhus University. She came to the Helsinki University of Technology (now part of Aalto University) for graduate study in engineering and technology, earning a licenciate in 1990 and completing her PhD in 1994. Her dissertation was Diodilasereiden taajuuden stabilointi optisen mittaustekniikan sovelluksiin [Frequency stabilization of diode lasers for applications in optical measurement technology].

Recognition
Optica named her as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for outstanding contributions to the field of photonic crystal fibers and optical sensors".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Danish engineers 
Danish women engineers
21st-century Finnish engineers
Finnish women engineers
Optical engineers
Aarhus University alumni
Aalto University alumni
Academic staff of Aalto University
Fellows of Optica (society)
Envafolimab. Envafolimab is an anti-PD-L1 nanobody used in cancer immunotherapy.  It has been approved in China for the treatment of microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or MisMatch Repair deficient (dMMR) solid tumours. Envafolimab (KN035) has obtained the US FDA's orphan drug designation for advanced biliary tract cancer.

References 

Cancer immunotherapy
Monoclonal antibodies
Abdulla Muththalib. Abdulla Muththalib is a Maldivian politician who is the incumbent Minister of Construction, Housing and Infrastructure.

Education 
Muththalib was born in Fiyoaree in Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll. He studied at Malé English School and Centre for Higher Secondary Education (CHSE). During his time as a student in CHSE, he was the School Captain and scored A during A'levels and won Best All Around award and the President's Scholarship. He holds his PhD in civil engineering from University College London.

Career 
Muththalib previously served as Mohamed Muizzu's deputy during Muizzu's time as Housing Minister during the Yameen Administration. Before he was deputy, he was the Projects Department Head of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

Family life 
Muththalib is married to Shaina, they met during his time as the Deputy Minister, and they have 3 children together.

References

Living people
Government ministers of the Maldives
21st-century Maldivian politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of University College London
Cabinet of Mohamed Muizzu

Malé English School alumni
Centre for Higher Secondary Education alumni
Javier Llorca. Javier LLorca (born February 26, 1960 in Spain) is a Spanish engineer and materials scientist. He is Scientific Director of the Madrid Advanced Studies Institute of Materials (IMDEA Materials Institute]) in Madrid, Spain, and Principal Investigator of the Institute's Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials research group. He is also Professor of Materials Science and the Head of the Advanced Structural Materials and Nanomaterials research group at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).

Education 
LLorca attended the UPM, from which he received an honours degree in civil engineering in 1983 and a doctorate in materials science in 1986.

Career 
Llorca began his academic career after receiving his doctorate from UPM, becoming an associate professor in the university's Department of Materials Science in 1987. From 1989 to 1990, LLorca was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in solid mechanics in the Division of Engineering at Brown University.  In 1995, he became a full professor at UPM.

In 2007, Llorca founded IMDEA Materials Institute. He served as the institute's director until 2017, at which point he took on the role of scientific director.

As of 2024, his scientific publications related to material sciences have received more than 24,000 citations.

In the field of integrated computational materials engineering, LLorca has been recognised for his work in the systematic application of advanced computational tools and multiscale modelling strategies to establish links between the processing, microstructure and mechanical behaviour of structural materials.

This research activity has impacted several fields, including the development of multiscale modelling strategies to simulate the mechanical behaviour of composites for structural and multifunctional applications, which are considered the foundation of the virtual testing techniques to save time and cost in the certification of composite structures.

In 2015, LLorca was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. It was found to be possible to predict the microstructure and mechanical properties of metallic alloys using a cascade of modelling strategies covering different length and time scales.

Honours 
In 2023, LLorca was awarded the Leonardo Torres Quevedo National Prize in Engineering and Architecture by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, before receiving the Morris Cohen Award of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society in 2024. He was elected to the Academia Europaea (Physics and Engineering section) in 2013. He is a Fellow of the European Mechanics Society and in 2019 was the first Spanish researcher elected Fellow at the Materials Research Society.

References 

1960 births
Living people
Spanish academics