Distinguished Scientists

2023 Winners

Prof. Ali Chamkha is a distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at Kuwait College of Science and Technology. He is a renowned scientist in Nanofluids and Energy Transport. He has over 1100 publications with 125 h-index and 51,171 citations. He earned multiple prestigious awards, including Abdul-Hamid Shoman Award, Khalifa bin Zayed Award and the Khwarizmi International Award, and consistently ranked the top scientist in Mechanical Engineering in the Arab World.

Prof. Ioan POP is an esteemed emeritus professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, specializing in applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. With over 1313 published research papers and 11 books, he has made significant contributions to the field. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work in nanofluids and serves as an editor for prestigious journals.

Professor Thabet Abdeljawad is a distinguished mathematics professor at Prince Sultan University. He has co-authored over 600 journal articles in pure and applied mathematics, focusing on areas such as nonlinear analysis, differential equations, fractional calculus, modeling, and fixed point theory. His expertise in fractional calculus and its discrete counterpart has earned him recognition as one of the top 1% scientists by Clarivate World’s Influential Researchers in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Prof. R. El-Mallawany is an esteemed Emeritus Professor of Solid State Physics at Menoufia University, Egypt. He has made outstanding contributions to the field of Condensed Matter Physics, particularly in “New Glassy Materials.” His research has practical applications and has garnered national and international recognition. He has supervised numerous Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses and has published extensively in scientific journals, books, and video lectures. He also serves as the African representative of the IYOG.

Prof. Mohamed Safaa Osman, Faculty of Science at Cairo University, Egypt, is a highly influential researcher. His work has garnered significant attention and recognition, as evidenced by his inclusion as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate in 2022. With over 172 published papers and an impressive h-index of 58, his research has made a substantial impact in his field. Additionally, he has been listed as one of the World’s Top 2% scientists.

Prof. Hassan M. E. Azzazy is a Distinguished University Professor at the American University in Cairo. He has developed innovative anticancer nanoformulations, nanofibrous wound dressings, and bio-/chemosensors. He received two State Prizes in Advanced Technological Sciences, Shoman Prize, Global Innovator Award, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award. Dr. Azzazy was awarded Doctor of Science (Alexandria University) and is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and the African Academy of Sciences. 

Dr. Rahmat Ellahi is a prominent professor at International Islamic University Islamabad Pakistan. He is recipient of Fulbright Award, Highly Cited Researcher Awards, Best University Teacher Award, Productive Scientist of Pakistan Award, PAS Gold Medal, outstanding Paper award and Best Book Award etc. He has more than 300 publications having 91 h-index with 24000+ citations. He has supervised 38 PhD/MS research students. He is an editor of 5 international Impact Factor journals. His innovative ideas include mathematical modeling of real world problems with differential equations.

Prof.  Nasser Metwally is a distinguished scientist who has made significant contributions to the field of Quantum Information . He has established himself as a respected figure in academia. His  expertise and research prowess have been evident through his numerous international publications, showcasing his deep understanding of the subject matter. He  has a significant contributions in many topics of quantum information processing, as teleportation, masking, coding, cloning,  quantum steering ,etc.  Moreover,  he has been listed as one of the World’s Top 2% scientists.

2022 Winners

Sohail Nadeem is a Professor of Mathematics at Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan. He has published more than 600 research papers in international journals. His impact factor is greater than 2000 and are over 20000 citations. He has received many national and international awards. Crediting to his excellent teaching proficiency, he has successfully supervised over 100 M. Phil students and produced 32 Ph.D.

Xiao-Jun Yang   is a professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at China University of Mining and Technology, China. Of particular importance are his conjectures on fractal power-law flow and scaling-law chaos and special functions. He has awarded international medal, awards and prizes, such as Atanasije Stojkovič Medal, Abel Award, Springer Distinguished Researcher Award, Young Scientist Award, Obada Prize for Young Distinguished Researcher, and Highly Cited Researcher Award.

Gehad G. Mohamed is a professor at the Chemistry Department, Cairo University. He has awarded several national and international prizes, such as the State Incentive,  Cairo University Award for Scientific Excellence,  Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Scientists. He has listed in the 2022 Top Chemistry Scientists Seven Place among Chemistry Top Researchers in Terms of Productivity and Impact.

Sheref El-Khamisy is a professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffield, UK.  He is the founding director for the first research Centre in Egypt specialized in genomics and genome integrity and co-founded the healthy Lifespan Institute at the University of Sheffield. He won several prestigious awards including the Wellcome Trust, the State Award of Excellence in Medical Sciences, Shoman Foundation (Jordon) and the Wellcome Trust (UK).

Nageh K Allam is a Professor and Director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program, Amircan University, Ehypt.   He has published more than 250 papers. He is the recipient of the TWAS Yong Scientist Award, the Shoman Award, the State of Egypt Encouragement Award in Advanced Technological Sciences, the State of Egypt Excellence Award in Advanced Technological Sciences, and the AUC Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors Award. Dr. Allam is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and Ford Foundation.

Ayman Abdel-Khalik is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. His current research interests include electrical machine design and modelling, electric drives, energy conversion, and renewable energy. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Alexandria Engineering Journal. He also serves as an Associate Editor for several international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IET Electric Power Applications Journal. 

Amir Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science and an ARC DECRA Fellow at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has published over three hundred papers and 13, and 28,000 citations. His H-index is 75. He has been Highly Cited Researcher awardee for five consecutive years, 2017-2021 and has awarded several prestigious prizes such as Walter L. Huber Prize. 

Juan J. Nieto is a Professor at Institute of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN. He continuously included on the list of Highly Cited Researchers and he appears in the list of the 1% of the most cited mathematicians in the world according to the Essential Science Indicators. Editor-in-Chief of Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications and currently Editor-in-Chief of Fixed Point Theory and Algorithms for Sciences and Engineering.

2021 Winners

Prof. Tasawar Hayat, Country: Pakistan, He is a  Distinguished Professor at Quaid-I-Azam University.  His work contributions include the developments of fundamental diversified models for modified Darcy’s law, peristalsis, Cattaneo-Christov theory, fractional calculus, complex network systems and climate change thermodynamics. Recipient of forty two awards and honors including  (Hilal, Sitara and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz) by the President of Pakistan, Khwarizmi International award, ISESCO International award, COMSTECH International Award, TWAS Young Scientist Prize, the Honorary, etc. He is Highly Cited Researcher and Fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences and Third World Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Country: Mauritius, She is a leading biodiversity scientist who also happens to be the first elected female President of Mauritius.  She is a professor of organic chemistry, and published the first inventory of traditional knowledge for Mauritius and for the South west Indian ocean and she has co-authored the first African Herbal Pharmacopoeia. She has been awarded 5 DSc and won several international awards including the L’Oreal Unesco and the African Union Prizes for Women in Science and recently the IAS Prize. Sha was a vice-Pres ident of African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi Kenya. She translated her research in an enterprise and served as the 6th and first Female President of her country.                   https://youtu.be/8hOiu_6Oa-c

Prof. Marleen Temmerman, Country:  Belgium A Kenyan resident, Belgian-trained obstetrician-scientist Professor. She is Professor and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya, Director, Centre of Excellence in Women, Adolescent and Child Health,  and Chairholder in of the AKU-UNESCO Chair of Youth Leadership. She has 45 years postgraduate clinical, research and teaching/mentoring experience in Europe and Africa, working in Kenya since 1987. She leads and co-leads several research projects in the area of women’s and girls’ health and rights, in Kenya as well as in other African countries and regions. She has mentored over 50 PhD students on 4 continents. Recipient of numerous Honours, Prizes, and Grants, the Honorary, Adjunct and Visiting Professorships, gold medals etc. https://youtu.be/gCnKSuu8kwA

Prof. Martin Bohner, Country: USA. He is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri, USA. He received the PhD (1995) from Uni-versity Ulm, Germany, and MS (1992) in Applied Mathematics from San Diego State University. He was a Postdoc, sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, at National University of Singapore (1997) and at San Diego State University (1998). His research interests center around difference, differential and dynamic equations as well as their applications to economics, finance, biology, physics and engineering. He is the author of seven textbooks. more than 300 publications, Editor-in-Chief of five international journals and Editor for several international journals  https://youtu.be/vX2J3zig3II

Prof. Oluwole Daniel Makinde, Country: Nigeria,   A Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch  University, South Africa. He authored 4 Applied  Mathematics Textbooks & Monographs, Edited 8 Advanced Research Textbooks on Heat Transfer in Fluids and published over 500 research papers in reputable journals. He received numerous Awards, Prizes, and Fellowships such as, AU-Kwame Nkrumah Continental Scientific Award, South African NRF-NSTF T.W. Kambule Senior Award, etc.

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Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Country: Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University (KAUST). He is currently particularly interested in addressing the technical challenges associated with the uneven distribution, access to, and use of information and communication technologies in far-flung, rural, low-density populations, low-income, and/or hard-to-reach areas.

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Prof. Salah Obayya  received Ph.D. under joint supervision with City University London, UK. He is Chair-Professor and Founding Director of CPSM, Zewail City. He was the ZC Vice Chairman and Director-General. He took up several academic posts at UK: Brunel University, University of Leeds, UK (tenured Professor, 2006) and University of South Wales. He is an Honorary Special Chair Professor of Photonics, University of Nottingham, UK since 2017. He received DSc degree in Photonics from City University London in 2016 and several prizes and awards

Prof. Ahmed Radwan is a Professor and vice-President of the Nile University, Egypt. He was the Former Director of Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center (NISC), Nile University, and the Former Director of Technical Center for Career Development (TCCD). He received the Cairo University excellence award for research in the engineering sciences, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in basic sciences, the state achievements award for research, the Cairo University achievements award for research in the engineering sciences, and the best researcher awards Nile University  etc. 

Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem is a Professor of Immunology at Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt. His outstanding contributions in the field of Immunology, in particular Cancer Immunology, have led to a deeper understanding of how immune cells can fight cancer and viruses. He was awarded several national and international prizes, including three State Prizes, Khalifa Prize, two of Tanta University Prize. 

Prof. Gamal Esmat is a former vice President of Cairo University. He was the only Arab chosen as President of Int. Association for Study of Liver. His research on Hepatitis C Virus was the cornerstone for treatment of 4 million  by affordable drugs with an efficacy >95%. He invented a new anti-HCV WHO-approved molecule. His research on Schistosomiasis was the landmark for its eradication in Egypt. In 2001, he started with colleagues an ambitious program for liver transplantation. He was awarded State award, Nile award and many achievements awards

Prof. Mohamed Deyab is a Professor at Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute  Recipient of State Medal of Excellence, State Incentive Award for Creativity in Science and Technology, corrosion science Award. He published 150 papers as well as several patents and books. His interest include electro chemistry, nanotechnology, and energy production.  His field is electrochemistry and energy sectors involve the studying the problems of corrosion in the petroleum etc.

Prof. Nasser H. Sweilam is a Professor at the Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt. His contributions in the field of numerical simulations of differential equations and their optimal control, including vibrational inequalities and their optimal control, optimal control of real life mathematical models, ill-posed problems. He has been awarded several national and international prizes, such as  Cairo University Prize for the Distinct Researches in Mathematics (2004),  Cairo University,  Award for Excellence “Basic Science  etc. 

Prof. Amany Mohamed Fekry is a professor of physical chemistry, department of chemistry, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Her research mainly on biological and industrial problems. She has been awarded several prizes and awards: University Encouraging Award (Basic Sciences), Cairo University, 2010; Country Encouraging Award (Basic Sciences), Egypt, 2012 and Scientific Excellence Award (Basic Sciences), Cairo University, 2020. She has granted STDF-IFE (Egypt France Cooperation) and a postdoctoral fellow in GeoResources Lab, Lorraine University – France.

2020 Winners

Prof. Hari M. Srivastava B.Sc. (1957), M.Sc. (1959), Ph.D. (1965), D.Sc.  (h.c., 2006), D.Sc. (h.c., 2007). Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics  Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia. V8W 3R4, Canada. Published more than 954 papers in international journals, with h-index of 56 and 16905 citations. Highly Cited Researcher 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. 

Prof. Khaled Mechaeimer, awarded the highest prize namely State award for Excellence. Also, he has awarded other prizes from Taif university, highly cited author prize for Engineering and Basic Science branch 2012, 2013, and 2014. He leads an active research group with focus on this field. Moreover, his work addresses the physiological transport in eccentric tubes as an application of endoscopy. 

Prof. Ibrahim El-Sherbiny, was awarded State Award of Excellence in Advanced Technological Sciences 2019, COMSTECH Award for Best Patent 2019, ACDEMA Award for best Applied Research Study in 2018 in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gold Medal from 46th International Exhibition of Innovations (Geneva, 2018), the prestigious Shouman Award in Nanotechnology 2018, and the State Incentive Award in Science 2011, 

2019 Winners

Professor Jinde Cao is a Fellow of IEEE, a Member of the Academy of Europe, Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He has been named as Highly-Cited Researcher simultaneously in three disciplines: Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. He has received, among others, Chinese National Innovation Award, Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award, and the First Class Science and Technology Award of China Jiangsu.

Prof. Dumitru  Baleanu is a professor at  the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania  and a visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Turkey. He got his PhD from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Romania  in 1996.  His fields of interest include  the fractional dynamics and its applications in science and engineering, fractional differential equations, discrete mathematics,  soliton theory, Lie symmetry, dynamic systems on time scales and the wavelet method and its applications.

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    October 17, 2021
    2023 Winners Prof. Ali Chamkha is a distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at Kuwait College of Science and Technology. He is a renowned scientist in […]
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    October 23, 2020
    2020 Winners Prof. Hari M. Srivastava B.Sc. (1957), M.Sc. (1959), Ph.D. (1965), D.Sc.  (h.c., 2006), D.Sc. (h.c., 2007). Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics  Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, […]