The outstanding achievements of four members of Academia Europaea have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for 2021.
Evidence for Policymakers conference attracts global audience
Academia Europaea launches new Hub in Budapest
Hybrid Conference: ‘Evidence for Policymakers,’ 15-18 December 2020
President of Academia Europaea, Professor Sierd Cloetingh and AE Vice-President Professor Ole Petersen will be speaking in the Policy Based Evidence session of the ‘Evidence for Policymakers’ conference on 15th December.
Professors Cloetingh and Petersen will be part of the session entitled ‘External and internal evidence-systems for policymaking: How can we optimize the development and dissemination of evidence for policymakers?’ which will take place at 15.00 – 16.15 CET, 14.00 – 15.15 GMT on 15th December.
Academia Europaea announces election of its new President
The Academy’s Board of Trustees has announced that Professor Marja Makarow has been confirmed as the next President of Academia Europaea, taking over the post from Professor Sierd Cloetingh in October 2021.
Professor Marja Makarow will be the seventh President since AE was established in 1988, and the Academy’s first female President. Professor Makarow will take up the role of President-elect in December 2020 and will then assume the Presidency in October 2021.
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to 2 MAEs for work to understand black holes
Members of Academia Europaea, Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS MAE and Professor Reinhard Genzel FRS MAE are among this year’s Nobel Prize winners.
Sir Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford was awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. Professor Reinhard Genzel from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Professor Andrea Ghez from the University of California were jointly awarded “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.”
Three members of Academia Europaea awarded for distinction in their field
September has seen three members of the Academia Europaea awarded for excellence in their field. The Royal Society’s Copley Medal 2020 has been awarded to Sir Alan Fersht, the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics to Sir Martin Hairer and the 2020 Balzan Prize to Jean-Marie Tarascon.
Professor Valerie O’Donnell elected member of Academia Europaea
Val O’Donnell from Cardiff University School of Medicine has been elected in recognition of her academic excellence
Academia Europaea has announced that 361 international scholars have been elected for membership. Valerie O’Donnell is among those receiving the distinction.
About Valerie O’Donnell
Professor Val O’Donnell is co-director of the Systems Immunity Research Institute, School of Medicine at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on discovery and characterisation of inflammatory bioactive lipids involved in cardiovascular disease, dementia and wound healing.
Val O’Donnell is an editor of the open access journal FUNCTION. Her review into the potential of oral mouthwash to reduce Covid-19 transmission in the early stages of infection was the first paper published by the journal. She has recently been awarded Fellowship of The Academy of Medical Sciences.
President of Academia Europaea unveils plans for two more Regional Knowledge Hubs
President of Academia Europaea, Professor Sierd Cloetingh, has announced exciting plans to open two more Knowledge Hubs in Budapest and Munich
The new Hubs will take the total to 7 for Academia Europaea. In addition to the headquarters in London and an information centre in Graz, AE currently has a network of 5 Hubs in Barcelona, Bergen, Cardiff, Tbilisi and Wroclaw.
