News of the Global Young Academy

Under the leadership of Menattallah Elserafy (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) the 71-member Selection Committee of the GYA has finalised the selection of 39 new members to join the GYA in June 2022 for a tenure of five years. The GYA new member cohort includes representatives from 24 individual countries, from all GYA general disciplines, and includes 19 females, 19 males and 1 who prefers not to say. 

In June 2022 when the new cohort is inducted, the gender ratio will be 101 female/98 male/1 non-binary. Such gender balance is a development that the GYA has been moving towards for the last few years, and is a reflection of the excellent female/non-binary applicants to the GYA. 

In addition to helping the GYA maintain its gender parity benchmarks, the new member cohort has increased GYA international representation by 2 countries. The newly-added countries include Mongolia and Greece. 

Among other activities, the GYA acts as a facilitator and (virtual) convenor for the growing global network of National Young Academies. The GYA is therefore delighted to see that a number of new members are also members of – or in leadership positions in – their respective country’s NYA. 

Additionally, the GYA is pleased to welcome a number of Young Affiliates of The World Academy of Science (TWAS) among the 2022 new member cohort. 

Each application was evaluated by at least three Selection Committee members in two successive rounds of reviews, and were scored, first and foremost, based on the excellence of their scientific research, as well as on their demonstrated societal engagement. 

Please join the GYA in extending a very warm welcome to the following new members: 

Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, North-West University, South Africa 

Amarjargal Dagvadorj, Parliamentary Research Service, Secretariat of Parliament of Mongolia, Mongolia 

Amurabi Oliveira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil  

Ana Ochoa Sánchez, University of Azuay, Ecuador  

Assaf Zinger, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel  

Carina Geldhauser, Lund University, Sweden  

Carlo Altamirano-Allende, Independent Researcher, Mexico  

Dominika Latusek-Jurczak, Kozminski University, Poland  

Edmond Sanganyado, Northumbria University, United Kingdom 

Éva Dékány, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics and Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary  

Gary Kerr, Edinburgh Napier University Scotland, United Kingdom  

Graham de Ruiter, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel  

Jane Yau, DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany  

Jovana Milić, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland   

Jude Kimengsi, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and The University of Bamenda, Cameroon 

Lalit Khandare, Pacific University, United States  

Laura Zimmermann, University of Georgia, United States  

Lin Wang, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom  

Lydia Rhyman, University of Mauritius, Mauritius  

Mark Angelo Balendres, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines  

Meng Wang, China Academy of Sciences, China  

Mohammed Almahfali, Lund University, Sweden  

Muhammad Ali, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany and National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan  

Nafisa Tanjeem, Lesley University, United States  

Natalia Kucirkova, University of Stavanger, Norway and The Open University, United Kingdom 

Ofra Amir, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel  

Ovie Edegbene, Federal University of Health Sciences, Nigeria  

Qilin Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia  

Rafał Majka, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland 

Rita Orji, Dalhousie University, Canada  

Ruchi Gupta, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom  

Sabrina Elias, Independent University, Bangladesh 

Shankar Kausley, Tata Consultancy Services, India  

Sibel Eker, Radboud University Nijmegen School of Management, Netherlands  

Stella Tsani, University of Ioannina, Greece  

Stephanie Jurburg, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany  

Thomas Burelli, University of Ottawa, Canada  

Tomislav Meštrović, University North, University Centre Varaždin, Croatia  

Upasana Ray, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India 

The new member cohort officially begins their five-year term during the Annual General Meeting and International Conference of Young Scientists, which this year will be held online from 14–17 June 2022. The conference programme, panel and speaker information can be found here: Annual International Conference of Young Scientists.