The GYA warmly welcomes the 45 early-and mid-career researchers who will become GYA members in May 2024 for a tenure of five years. The GYA’s new member cohort includes representatives from 30 individual countries, covering all GYA general disciplines, and includes 25 females, 19 males, and 1 member who prefers not to identify.
The new members were selected by the GYA Membership Selection Committee, under the leadership of Alma Cristal Hernández Mondragón (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico), Velia Siciliano (Italy), Praveen Kumar (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India), Siok Yee Chan (Universiti Sains Malaysia), and Executive Committee member Yensi Flores Bueso (University College Cork, Ireland; University of Washington in Seattle, United States).
In May 2024, when the new cohort is inducted, the GYA’s gender ratio will be 102 female/ 1 non-binary/2 no information given/89 male. 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.
Among other activities, the GYA acts as a facilitator and convenor for the growing global network of National Young Academies (NYAs). 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.
Each of the new members’ applications was evaluated through peer review in multiple rounds, and were scored, first and foremost, based on the excellence of their scientific research, as well as on their demonstrated societal engagement.
The new member cohort officially begins their five-year term during the GYA’s Annual General Meeting and International Conference of Young Scientists, which this year will be held in Washington, D.C., United States from 6-10 May 2024. The conference programme, panel and speaker information can be found here: Annual International Conference of Young Scientists.
Please join the GYA in extending a very warm welcome to the following new members:
Abdulsatar Sultan, Catholic University in Erbil, Iraq
Alexia Núñez-Parra, Chile
Anina Schwarzenbach, Switzerland
Anu Susan Sam, Kerala Agricultural University, India
Asmaa Abusamra, The University College of Applied Sciences, Palestine
Cesar de la Fuente, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Christian Isalomboto Nkanga, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Erin Maloney, University of Ottawa, Canada
Fun Man Fung, National University of Singapore
Ganbaatar Khurelbaatar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Gillian Mahumane, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Hiba N. Rajeha, IÉSEG School of Management, France
Himangana Gupta, United Nations University, Japan
Hussain Wahedi, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan
Hussam Khasawneh, Al Hussein Technical University, Jordan
Inayat Ullah, National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan
Jai Prakash, Aligarh Muslim University, India
João Borges, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Jingyuan Xu, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Kanti Pertiwi, Universitas Indonesia
Kapal Dev, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Lorena Michelle Coronado Vásquez, INDICASAT AIP, Panama
Luisa Maria Diele Viegas, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Maria Melina Florez-Cuadros, Peru
Miriam Cohen, Université de Montréal, Canada
Mohamed Mahmoud, Galala University, Egypt
Mohammad Abdel-Rahman, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
Mujtaba Ali Isani, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan
Natisha Dukhi, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Nesrin Alrefaai, United Kingdom
Noor Shaila Sarmin, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Oluwarotimi Williams Samuel, University of Derby, United Kingdom
Peter Gan Kim Soon, Ministry of Health Malaysia
Pooja Devi, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, India
Reem Abou Assi, Al-Kitab University, Iraq
Rocio Alejandra Chavez-Santoscoy, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Santosh Kumar Gupta, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Shaoshan Liu, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, People’s Republic of China/Hong Kong
Thao Thi Phuong Nguyen, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
Thashree Marimuthu, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Tofik Ahmed Shifa, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Veda Krishnan, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Yalinu Poya, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
Wilson Alavia Medina, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile