birth_place nationality fields birth_date article_title name alma_mater
sudan sudanese applied geophysics , astrophysics mathematics , plasma physics , environmental modelling , 21 november 1947 mohamed h.a. hassan
 mohamed hag ali hassan university of newcastle-upon-tyne , university of oxford
mohamed h.a. hassan

mohamed h. a. hassan -lrb- محمد حاج علي حاج الحسن -rrb- is co-chair of iap , the global network of science academies , and chairman of the council of the united nations university -lrb- unu -rrb- .
he also serves on a number of boards of international organizations worldwide , including the board of trustees of bibliotheca alexandrina , egypt ; the council of science and technology in society -lrb- sts -rrb- forum , japan ; the board of the international science programme , sweden ; the board of the science initiative group -lrb- sig -rrb- , usa ; and the international advisory board of the centre for international development -lrb- zef -rrb- , germany .
after obtaining his phd in mathematics from the university of oxford , he returned to sudan and later became professor and dean of the school of mathematical sciences , university of khartoum .
he has a long list of publications in theoretical plasma physics and fusion energy , wind erosion , and dust and sand transport in dry lands .
he has also published several articles on science and technology in the developing world .
dr. hassan was the founding executive director of the academy of science for the developing world -lrb- twas -rrb- , president of the african academy of sciences , president of the network of academies of science in africa -lrb- nasac -rrb- and chairman , honorary presidential advisory council for science and technology , nigeria .
among his honours : comendator , grand cross , and national order of scientific merit , brazil ; and officer , order of merit of the italian republic .
he is a member of several merit-based academies of science , including twas ; the african academy of sciences ; islamic world academy of sciences ; academia colombiana de ciencias exactas , físicas y naturales ; académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer , belgium ; pakistan academy of sciences ; academy of sciences of lebanon ; cuban academy of sciences ; and academy of sciences of south africa .
