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Mohamed H.A. Hassan (bio)
Brief biodata of Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Executive Director of TWAS.
He was born in the Sudan in 1947, and holds a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the University of Oxford, UK (1974). A former professor and dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum, he received the order of scientific merit of Brazil and the order of merit of Italy. He is a fellow of TWAS, AAS, and the Islamic Academy of Science; honorary member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and the Palestine Academy of Science and Technology; corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Overseas Academy of Sciences; foreign fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences; foreign member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research areas include plasma physics, environmental modelling of soil erosion in drylands, geophysics, astrophysics and space physics.
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