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TWAS 2010 Young Affiliates selected

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Each year, TWAS's five Regional Offices select up to five excellent young scientists (below the age of 40) to be come 'TWAS Young Affiliates'.

TWAS's five Regional Offices have completed the selection of this year's 25 Young Affiliates, bringing the total to 98.

The programme, which began in 2007, seeks to identify the best young scientists in each region of the developing world and provide them with opportunities to network with one another, with TWAS Fellows, and to attend international conferences and other events for young scientists.

The appointments are made for a period of five years (covering five TWAS General Meetings).

TWAS Young Affiliates must be aged 40 or less on 1 January of the year in which they are selected. They must also have demonstrated a good publication record with at least 10 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and should be living and working in a developing country for at least the past two years.

Name	Country	Institution	Regional office
Ismunandar	Indonesia	Dept. of Chemistry, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)	ROESEAP
Li Yin	China	Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	ROESEAP
Santi Maensiri	Thailand	Department of Physics, Khon Kaen University	ROESEAP
Maricor Soriano	Philippines	National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines	ROESEAP
Chin-Ping Tan	Malaysia	Department of Food Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia	ROESEAP
Krishna Prasad Devotka	Nepal	Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University	ROCASA
Balasubramaniam Gopal	India	Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science	ROCASA
M. Jayakannan	India	Department of Chemistry, Indian institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)	ROCASA
Muhammad Kamruzzaman	Bangladesh	Centre for Health and Population Research (ICDDR,B)	ROCASA
Muhammad Raza Shah	Pakistan	H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences	ROCASA
Talal F. Al-Azemi	Kuwait	Kuwait University	ARO
Ahmad Juma Al-Salman	Oman	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University	ARO
Youcef Bentoutou	Algeria	Centre des Techniques Spatiales (CTS)	ARO
Rym Kefi Ben Atig	Tunisia	Pasteur Institute of Tunis	ARO
Amal Amin Ibrahim Shendi Nada	Egypt	National Research Centre	ARO
Chukwuocha Uchechukwu Madukaku	Nigeria	Department of Public Health Technology, Federal University of Technology, Imo State	ROSSA
Ishmael B. Masesane	Botswana	Chemistry Department, University of Botswana	ROSSA
Jeninah Karungi-Tumutegyereize	Uganda	Crop Science Department, Makerere University	ROSSA
Peter C. Okafor	Nigeria	Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Calabar	ROSSA
Christine M. Steenkamp	South Africa	Physics Department, University of Stellenbosch	ROSSA
Mauricio Calderon	Chile	Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Santiago	ROLAC
Jaime Costales Cordero	Ecuador	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador	ROLAC
Yraima Cordeiro	Brazil	Faculdade de Farmácia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	ROLAC
Rogerio Panizzutti	Brazil	Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	ROLAC
Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot	Jamaica	Chemistry Department, University of the West Indies	ROLAC

TWAS Young Affiliates:

will be invited to attend all TWAS General Meetings and General Conferences;
are entitled to attend TWAS General Meetings as observers, i.e. they will be permitted to participate in the discussions, but will not have any voting rights;
will be invited to attend regional meetings of TWAS Fellows organized by the Regional Offices;
will be invited to participate in the activities of TWAS national chapters in their home countries (if such a chapter is active);
will receive copies of TWAS publications such as the TWAS Newsletter, Year Book, Annual Report etc.;
will have their biodata published in an annual Young Affiliates Year Book, to be made available at each TWAS General Meeting;
are eligible for TWAS Prizes (unlike full TWAS members);
are encouraged to provide feedback to TWAS on how the Academy can respond to the needs of young scientists in developing countries;
are encouraged to provide information about TWAS programmes to their students and colleagues;
are encouraged to seek out and nominate excellent scientists from developing countries, especially science- and technology-lagging countries, for TWAS awards;
are encouraged to seek out excellent scientists from science- and technology-lagging countries and recommend their nomination for TWAS membership (via a full member of the Academy).

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TWAS 2010 Young Affiliates selected