Mohamed Hassan

Mohamed Hassan is Executive Director of IAP, Executive Director of TWAS, President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and holder of the Honorary Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology in Nigeria.

After obtaining his PhD (University of Oxford, 1974), he returned to Sudan as professor and dean of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum. He was TWAS Fellow in Mathematical Sciences in 1985. He received the Comendador (1996) and Grand Cross (2005) of the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit; he is Officer of the Italian Republic, 2003.

Hassan is a member of: Founding Fellow, AAS, 1985; Fellow, Islamic World Academy of Sciences, 1992; Honorary Member, Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 1996; Corresponding Member, Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Belgium, 2001; and Foreign Fellow, Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 2002.