Sir Demis Hassabis, member of the Academia Europaea Informatics section, has been awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, jointly with John M. Jumper, for their groundbreaking work on protein structure prediction.
Professor Michael Udvardi, recipient of the The Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research 2023, shares why this award is special to him and his research into sustainable agriculture.
Professor Eugene Yeo, inaugural recipient of the Academia Europaea Sydney Brenner Medal, speaks on his personal connection with Sydney Brenner and continuing his legacy as a mentor.
Professor Jean Pierre Changeux MAE, recipient of Academia Europaea’s Erasmus medal, shares what the award means to him and discusses key aspects of his research.
Astronomer Royal, Professor Martin Rees, Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM FRS MAE, has been awarded the Royal Society’s oldest and most prestigious award.
Lord Rees joined our recent celebration to mark 30 years of the European Review, the journal of Academia Europaea, at Wolfson College Cambridge (July 2023). Lord Martin Rees (left) with AE Cardiff Hub Director, Ole Petersen CBE MAE ML FRSContinue reading “Lord Martin Rees awarded Royal Society’s Copley Medal”
Professor Sierd Cloetingh MAE, recipient of Academia Europaea’s 2022 Gold Award, gives us his reaction and tells us about some of his activities on behalf of AE.
About Sierd Cloetingh MAE
Professor Sierd Cloetingh is the 2022 winner of Academia Europaea’s prestigious Gold Medal award. A Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University, he was President of Academia Europaea from 2014 – 2021. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council from 2009-2015 and Vice-President from 2014-2015. He served as President of the Association for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) from 2017-2019.
Professor Cloetingh is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona, Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, the Heidelberg Academy, the Bavarian Academy and the German Academy for Technical Sciences, acatech. He is also an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
AE Cardiff Hub Director, Professor Ole Petersen CBE FRS, has received the 2022 Palade Prize and medal by the Council of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) “in recognition of his outstanding research contribution to Pancreatology”.
Dr Pramod Garg, Secretary General of IAP, presents the award to Professor Ole Petersen. From left to right: Professor Ole Petersen, Dr Pramod Garg, Secretary General of IAP and Professor Yoshifumi Takeyama, President of the IAP.
Professor Petersen received the Palade Prize and Medal, and gave the Palade Prize Lecture on 7th July in Kyoto, Japan, at the Joint Meeting of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) and the Japan Pancreas Society (JPS).
AE Cardiff congratulates and thanks Professor Sierd Cloetingh who will complete his term as President of Academia Europaea on 31st December, having served the Academy for 7 years.
Photo: Tamás Szigeti / MTA
To mark the end of his tremendous presidency, Professor Cloetingh delivered his Valedictory Presidential Lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest in a session chaired by the Hungarian Academy’s President, Professor Tamas Freund MAE. Members of the Academia Europaea Board of Trustees and distinguished guests were in attendance. The lecture was also followed online by many members of Academia Europaea.
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