Invitation to TWAS Webinar 3: Chemistry and Physics: 19 August @ 1pm (Rome time)

[ICTP/infopoint - Emili Sabina]

Distinguished scientists,  Dear colleagues,

On behalf of TWAS President, Prof. Mohamed H. A. Hassan, and of TWAS 
Council, we are pleased to invite you to the third webinar of the 2020 
TWAS Awards Webinar Series.

The series consists of five webinars taking place online between 10 June 
and 29 October, leading to TWAS Fifteenth General Conference, which will 
be also held virtually from 1 to 4 November. The webinars are focused on 
the winners of TWAS awards and of awards in honour of TWAS Fellows. The 
series will resume next year to comprise presentations by those TWAS 
Awards winners that were not able to convene in 2021.

This is the third event of the 2021 Awards Webinar Series that gives an 
opportunity to TWAS Award winners to deliver brief presentations on 
their accomplishments. A question-and-answer session takes place after 
each presentation, allowing participants to ask presenters their questions.

The third webinar will take place on 19 August, at 1 p.m., Rome time, 
and will focus on chemistry and physics.

Presentations will be made by Raoelina Andriambololona of Madagascar, 
winner of the 2020 TWAS C.N.R. Rao Award for Scientific Research; Tang 
Zhiyong of China, winner of the 2020 TWAS Award in Chemistry; Basant 
Giri of Nepal, winner of the 2020 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in 
Chemistry; and Achyut Adhikari of Nepal, winner of the 2019 
TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry. For more information, bio 
sketches of each scientist can be found at the end of this message.

To register in advance, please, use: 
https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tom72tFjR-KYGfCpqwRD7g 
<https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tom72tFjR-KYGfCpqwRD7g>

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.

To join the live event, please, use: https://youtu.be/xC5a8w_8XoM 
<https://youtu.be/xC5a8w_8XoM>

Participants to the webinar provide their consent to be recorded. 
Participants receive a notification when a recording starts or when they 
join a session that is already being recorded. Participants also 
authorize TWAS to use the recording, in part or entirely, when 
disseminating material related to TWAS activities.

We very much look forward to seeing you online!

Yours sincerely,

Prof. Romain Murenzi
TWAS Executive Director
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UNESCO-TWAS
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in 
developing countries
Trieste, Italy

*Raoelina ANDRIAMBOLOLONA*

Professor*Raoelina Andriambololona* is the founder and Director-General 
of the National Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology in 
Madagascar, where he pioneered thepeaceful uses of nuclear technology 
and micro-nanotechnology. From 1962 to 1968, he worked as researcher at 
the Centre of Theoretical Physics in Marseille, a mixed research unit of 
the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In 1967, he earned 
his PhD in theoretical physics from Aix-Marseille University. In October 
1968, he returned to Madagascar to propel science in a country that was 
lacking scientific institutions. In 1980, Andriambololona received the 
support of TWAS, UNESCO and the International Atomic Energy Agency in 
Vienna to set up the Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Applied Physics 
from scratch in Madagascar. He was President of the African Regional 
Cooperative Agreement for Research, Development and Training related to 
Nuclear Science and Technology (AFRA)-Field Management Committee 
(2002–2003); Deputy Director-General of the International Biographical 
Centre, in Cambridge, UK; and expert of the United Nations Economic 
Commission for Africa, in Addis Ababa.

/He was awarded//"For his development of peaceful uses of nuclear 
sciences and technologies both in Madagascar and Africa and his 
pioneering actions in nanotechnologies in Madagascar.”/

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*TANG Zhiyong *is a**Professor at the National Center for Nanoscience 
and Technology,

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and 
Hierarchical Fabrication, Beijing, China. He received his PhD from the 
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
China, in 2000. Then, he moved to Switzerland, where he worked as a 
research associate at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of 
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. From 2001 to 2003 and 
from 2003 to 2006, he was a research fellow in the departments of 
chemistry and of chemical engineering at Oklahoma State University. In 
2006, he joined the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology 
(NCNST), in Beijing, as a full professor. His greatest accomplishment is 
his study of the self-limiting mechanism for self-assembly from multiple 
types of nanoparticles, which laid the foundations for making 
large-scale and ordered hierarchical structures. Such results further 
pushed the methodology of nanoparticle self-assembly and the practical 
application of nanomaterials.

/He was awarded "//For his contribution to the development of methods 
and theory for controllable synthesis, self-assembly and property 
manipulation of nanoparticles."/

/*******/

*Basant GIRI *is the**Director of International Relations, at the 
Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Basant 
Giri received his first Master of Science (MSc) in chemistry from 
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, and his second MSc in chemistry 
from the Oregon State University, United States. He completed his PhD 
degree in analytical chemistry at the University of Wyoming, United 
States. Subsequently, he co-founded the Kathmandu Institute of Applied 
Sciences, in Nepal, where he currently works as a Director of 
International Relations and Senior Scientist. His research includes the 
development of new technologies and analytical methods—for which he uses 
paper-analytical devices and smartphones—for a wide range of 
applications such as drug, food and water quality testing, environmental 
pollution monitoring, and clinical diagnosis. The ultimate goal of his 
research is to provide common people with such technologies so that they 
can test everyday items before consuming them. Basant Giri is also 
working on science policy and science outreach projects.

/He was awarded "For his outstanding work on the development of low-cost 
analytical tools for biological, chemical, environmental and clinical 
applications."/

/*******/

*Achyut **ADHIKARI *is an**Associate Professor at the Central Department 
of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He is also a 
member of the Advisory Board of the Ministry of Education, Science and 
Technology, Nepal. He is a member of the Interim Board of Study in 
Medicinal Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the Institute of 
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, at the University of 
Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a visiting professor at the Sarsen Amanzholov 
East Kazakhstan University, Kazakhstan. He completed his PhD in natural 
products chemistry in 2010, at the International Center for Chemical and 
Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Pakistan, and his 
postdoctoral research at the Department of Pharmacy, University of 
São**Paulo, in Ribero Preto, Brazil. His current research interest 
includes the discovery of new bioactive natural products, 
standardization of aromatic and medicinal plants, and green synthesis of 
nanoparticles and their application, for which he has received several 
grants and published more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, one 
book, and three US patents.

/He was awarded /////"For his work using natural products chemistry in 
Nepal and other countries, isolating compounds from regional plants that 
can be put to use in medicine or commercial products."//


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