CLASS I (Humanities)
DABIJA, Nicolae
Nicolae Dabija (July 15, 1948, the Republic of Moldova) is the author of the volumes
of poetry: "Third Eye", "Wing under the shirt," "Domesticated Blackbird", "Tear that
sees", "Photographer of the Lightning", "Marathon through bullets", “Love Psalms" etc.,
of the novel" Homework " translated into more than 10 languages, etc.
It's winner of the Grand Prix Festival of Poetry from Trieste (Italy), of the Prize "Maria
Loynaz" of the Festival of Poetry from Havana (Cuba), of the Prize "Poetry Sceptre"
(Macedonia), of the Grand Prix "Nichita Stanescu" (Romania), of the Prize "Mihai
Eminescu" of the Romanian Academy, etc.
It's a director of the weekly newspaper "Literature and Art", it's member of the Academy
of Sciences of Moldova, honorary member of the Romanian Academy, member of the
Academy of Poetry and Arts from Mongolia.
MACH, Zdzisław
Zdzisław Mach is professor of sociology, social anthropology and European Studies at
the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Founder of the Institute for European
Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and one of the main authors of the European
Studies curriculum in Poland. Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies,
Jagiellonian University, where he also holds a UNESCO Chair in Education about the
Holocaust.
His research interests cover issues such as nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, the
development of European citizenship, migration, cultural construction of identities,
collective memory and cultural heritage as well as the development of the idea of
Europe. Professor Mach has been leading teams of researchers in the Polish National
Science Centre and EU supported projects, including 6th Frame Work and a Horizon
2020.
His publications include: Symbols, Conflict and Identity. Essays in Political
Anthropology. Albany: State University of New York Press 1993; Niechciane miasta.
Migracja i tożsamość społeczna. Kraków: Universitas 1998; Poland’s National Memory
of the Holocaust and Its Identity in an Expended Europe [in:] J. Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
(ed.); The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars, Austeria, Kraków 2009: 61–70; Between old
Fears and New Challenges. The Polish Debate on Europe [in:] K. Nicolaidis, and J.
Lacroix (eds.), European Stories. How National Intellectuals Debate Europe, Oxford:
Oxford University Press 2010: 221–240; (with M. Góra), Situating the demos of a
European democracy [in:] E.O.Eriksen and J.E.Fossum (eds.), Rethinking Democracy
and the European Union, London and New York: Routledge, 2012: 159–178; (with
M.Góra and H-J. Trenz), Democtarization and the Struggle for the Recognition of
Memory and Heritage in the European Frame of Reference, [in:] K. Kowalski i B.
Tornquist-Plewa (eds.) The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and
Sweden, Kraków, Jagiellonian University Press, 2016: 265–271; Local Community,
Power and European Integration, (ed.) 2016, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, The Polish elites'
struggle for recognition of the experience of Communism in the European Union, [in:]
A. T. Sindbæk, B. Törnquist-Plewa (eds.), The twentieth century in European memory
: transcultural mediation and reception, Leiden Boston: Bril, 2017: 56–82 (with M.
Góra).
CLASS II (Medicine)
BATTELINO, Tadej
University Children's Hospital Ljubljana, UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tadej Battelino completed his medical degree at the University of Ljubljana in 1990.
He completed a Masters degree, and later a PhD focusing on glucose metabolism in
neonatal endotoxic shock in 1996. He completed his clinical fellowship at Loyola
University of Chicago, and his postdoctoral fellowship at INSERM, Paris.
Professor Battelino is currently Consultant and Head of Department of Pediatric and
Adolescent Endocrinology, UMC Ljubljana, Head, Chair of Paediatrics, and Professor
of Paediatrics at Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. He is PI on several
research projects in the field of paediatric endocrinology and metabolism and was
awarded the Slovene national award for research in 2014, and Gold medal for research
at the University of Ljubljana in 2017. Professor Battelino is on the editorial boards for
the journals Paediatric Diabetes, Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
and was Editor for the European Journal of Endocrinology from 2009 to 2015. He has
authored or co-authored over 200 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals
and participated chapters to several books.
Professor Battelino is a member of numerous professional associations including the
European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and the International Society for
Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, for which he served as President for the 35th
Annual Congress. He served on the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
(EASD) council and is co-organizer of eleven annual meetings of the ATTD (Advanced
Technologies and Treatment of Diabetes). Professor Battelino is a regular member of
the Slovene Medical Academy.
ROTIM, Krešimir
Prof. Krešimir Rotim, MD, PhD was born on 23rd of April 1967 in Vukovar, Croatia. He
finished Medical faculty at the University of Zagreb in 1991. He finished his residency
in Neurosurgery in 1998. Krešimir Rotim is Head of the Department of Neurosurgery
at the University Hospital Center Sestre milosrdnice in Zagreb, Croatia since 2006. He
is past president of Croatian Neurosurgery Society (2009. - 2013.), the president of
Southeast Europe Neurosurgical Society (SeENS), president of the Croatian Society
of Spine Surgery and president of Croatian Society for Cerebrovascular Surgery. He
was General Manager of the University Hospital Center Sestre milosrdnice in Zagreb
from 2008-2012. He published seven books, and more than 60 scientific papers in his
career. In 2016, he became the Dean of the University of Applied Health Sciences.
Prof. Rotim performs around 50 surgeries per year.
CLASS III (Arts)
CHILDESCU, Emil
CHILDESCU Emil was born on 07 May 1937, in the Republic of Moldova, Sculeni
Village. In 1956 -1964 he made studies at the Republican School “I.Repin” (now the
Republican College of Plastic Arts “A. Plamadeala”) from Chisinau, Republic of
Moldova.
The outstanding talent of the artist is reflected in such works as "People of My
Village", "Man", "Native Land", "Crimea", "Death of Lapusneanu", "Legends of
Moldova", "Stephen the Great" and other. Master's creation, composition and color
is often serving as a model for those who want to devote their life to the profession
of plastic artist. An intense and warm humanity, a grace and deep sensitivity we
observe in the portraits of "Mother's Face", "Maria Biesu", "Gheorghe Mustea",
"Ghenadie Ciobanu" and other. A remarkable dynamism and power of synthesis is
considered the field of graphics, through which Mr. Emil CHILDESCU imposed
himself alongside the other domains in the numerous prestigious personal and group
exhibitions, in the Republic of Moldova and foreign countries as Austria, Germany,
Great Britain , Bulgaria, Turkey, Russian Federation, Romania, France , Greece,
Lithuania, Spain, United States of America, Ukraine etc.
Prof. Emil CHILDESCU also imposed himself as an illustrator of the books of the
national authors, noting in particular his original vision of the creation of M.
Eminescu, V. Alecsandri, V. Besleaga, Ion C. Ciobanu and others.
The works of Master E. CHILDESCU are also found in the public collections:
museums in the Republic of Moldova, as well as in private collections in most of the
listed countries.
More than 5000 works performed in various techniques (painting, drawing, poster,
monogram and color, aquaforte) are the fruit of the work of the notorious plastic
artist.
ELIA, Marios Joannou
Marios Joannou Elia is well known for his large-scale and extravagant works.
According to the American academic journal Perspectives of New Music, “Elia is
regarded as one of the most important and influential composers of the younger
generation”. His international breakthrough came in 2011, with the première of the
open-air multimedia “Autosymphonic” in Mannheim for 290 musicians and 80 cars at
a 65.000 m2 stage, which was described by the Huffington Post as “one of the world’s
more remarkable symphony concerts”. It won the 2012 Gold Apple award for
Germany’s most innovative cultural event. Elia has composed more than 75 works,
including the opera “Die Jagd” at the Stuttgart State Opera and “Ulmer Oratorium” for
400 musicians, especially composed for the highest church in the world. He is the
creator of “Sound of Vladivostok”, in which an entire city is staged – the Russian media
described it as “a ceremonial sound portrait of the city”. The Japanese city of Kyoto
invited him to implement this same concept in 2018. Elia has received over 35 awards,
including the Lutoslawski and Serocki Prizes in Warsaw, the Edison Denisov Prize in
Moscow, the BMW Prize of Musica Viva in Munich and the Theodor Koerner Prize in
Vienna lauded by the President of the Republic of Austria. He studied at Mozarteum
Salzburg and Vienna’s University of Music and holds a doctorate of philosophy. His
book, “The Concept of Polymediality”, has been recently published by Schott,
Germany. Elia teaches at various Universities, in Salzburg, Leipzig or Seoul, and has
been artistic director of important initiatives, including the European Capital of Culture.
www.mjelia.com / www.soundofvladivostok.ru
CLASS IV (Natural Sciences)
ZHANG, Xiang
Dr. Xiang Zhang is a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China,
and is working in the School of Mathematical Sciences. He got his PhD degree in 1997
from Nanjing University, China. Then he had a postdoctoral position for two years in
CRM, Barcelona, and had worked in Georgia Institute of Technology, USA for one year
for both research and teaching duties.
His research interesting is on Dynamical Systems, especially on the qualitative,
bifurcation and integrability theories. In these fields he published more 130 papers and
three books, parts of his main results had solved several long standing open problems
and conjectures, for instance, the characterization of the invariant algebraic surfaces
of the Loren systems, the Darboux aspect of Liouvillian integrability for higher
dimensional systems, and the week Hibert’ 16 th problem on algebraic limit cycles in the
node case. He is also a pioneer in the study of dynamics of quaternion autonomous
differential equations. These results were published for instance, in American J.
Mathematics, Communications in Math. Phys., Transactions of Amer. Math. Soc., J.
Functional Analysis, and J. Differential Equations and so on.
Prof. Zhang is now the director of Chinese Society of Singular Perturbation, of
Chinese Mathematical Society, and the associate editors of International J. Bifurcation
and Chaos and of Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems. He was often invited to
present plenary talks in international conferences on dynamical systems, which took
place, for instance, in USA, Canada, Spain, France, Germany and so on.
JAMBREK, Peter
Peter Jambrek, born in 1940, graduated at the University of Chicago (USA), where he
obtained Ph.D. degree from the Department of Sociology in 1971. He is currently
professor of constitutional and human rights law at the New University's Graduate
School of Government and European Studies and the European Faculty of Law,
Slovenia. He began his academic career at the Law Faculty of the University of
Ljubljana in 1965, where he also obtained his Bachelor of Law degree in 1962, and
served there until 2000. His visiting professorships and scholarships include University
of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, USA, 1989); University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA,
1982); University of Zambia (Lusaka, Zambia, 1973-1975); and Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University (Boston, 1976). He was a member of the
Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and a
member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice
Commission”, 1991-2008). He served as Judge (1990-1998) and President (1991-
1993) of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia and as Judge of the European Court of
Human Rights (1993-1998). He authored and edited numerous books, monographs
and articles in the fields of Human Rights, European Law and Sociology, and held a
number of academic and professional positions. He contributed to the Slovenian
independence and to inauguration of its constitutional democracy during its democratic
inauguration period of 1987 –1991 as one of the authors of the Slovenian National
Programme (Nova revija, No. 57, 1987), as editor and coauthor of the first drafts of the
Slovenian Constitution (1988-1991) and as one of the key initiators of the plebiscite on
Slovenian independence (1990). He authored a series of five books under the common
title Slovenia 1945-2015 - Sovereignty, Constitutionality and the Future of Slovenia's
National System. Two of them were published by the New University Press (2014) in
the English (Theory of Rights - Behavioral, Social and Normative Approaches; Nation's
Transitions - Social and Legal Issues of Slovenia's Transitions 1945 - 2015) and three
in the Slovenian (Ženska taborišča - "Women Concentration Camps in Slovenia 1949–
1950"; Ustava in svoboda - "Constitution and Freedom - Origins, Foundations and
Development of the Constitutional System of Slovenia"; Demokracija in država -
"Slovenian Democracy – Foundation, Crises and Visions").
MÜLLER, Andreas
Duale Hochschule Gera Eisenach, University of Cooperative Education Gera
Eisenach
Andreas Müller is Professor of Business Administration,
focused on Human Resource Management and
Organization at the University of Cooperative Education
(Duale Hochschule) Gera Eisenach.
He was born in 1965 in Ebermannstadt, Bavaria. After
finishing highschool in 1984 and absolving his military
service he studied Business Administration at Otto-Friedrich
University in Bamberg. Degree awarded: Master in
Management Science (Diplom-Kaufmann). Subsequently
he worked as an Assistant at the Institute of Economic
Policy Research (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Blum), Technical
University Dresden, doctoral thesis: „An economic
foundation of a theory of morality”.
Besides his education he worked as a Managing Associate of the Otto-Beisheim-
Stiftung (financed by the Metro-Corporation) at the Technical University of Dresden
and as a freelance consultant for different companies. From 1991 to 1995 he was Vice
Chairman of Junge Union Bavaria and in 1994 he was nominated as Top Candidate
of the CSU Oberfranken for the election to the European Parliament (Election result:
1 st one to follow up).
His main scientific interest concerns the field of business ethics, especially the relation
between economic rationality and moral requirements of society.
Last publications:
A comparative examination of Kant's deontic ethics with Aristotelian virtue ethics with
regard to their validity or significance for the European cultural area.
Rivalry and moral psychology – Are rivals the worse humans?
ŠIMONOVIĆ, Ivan
Ivan Šimonović assumed his functions as Assistant-Secretary-General and Special
Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect on 1 October 2016.
From July 2010 to September 2016, Mr. Šimonović headed, as Assistant Secretary-
General for Human Rights, the New York office of the Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights. Before joining the United Nations, from 2008 Mr. Šimonović held
the position of Minister of Justice of Croatia. Previously, Mr. Šimonović was Deputy
Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative to the United
Nations in New York, where he served as Senior Vice-President and President of the
Economic and Social Council from 2001 to 2003. A Croatian national, Mr. Šimonović
worked as a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb, where he
served as Head of the Legal Theory Department, Vice-Dean and Vice-Rector for
international cooperation. He has published extensively in the fields of international
relations, law, human rights, and development of national institutions. In an expert
capacity, he has been a member of the Council of Europe’s Commission for
Democracy through Law (i.e. the Venice Commission) and the European Commission
against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), as well as the Agent of the Republic of Croatia
before the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ). Currently, he is a
Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty (ICDP).
Mr. Šimonović has a graduate degree in law, a master’s degree in public administration
and politics, and a Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb and was a visiting scholar at
Universities of Graz and Yale. He is currently a visiting scholar and Huo Fellow at the
University of Columbia Global Policy Initiative, Bok visiting international professor at
Penn Law School and honorary professor at the University of Queensland.
THEODORAKOPOULOS, Nicholas
Nicholas Theodorakopoulos is Professor of
Entrepreneurship Development and Head of Work and
Organisational Psychology Department at Aston Business
School, Birmingham, UK. He is a member of the Aston
Business School Senior Management Team and Director of
the Aston Centre for People and Organisations. His
specialist areas of research, academic publications and
teaching include strategic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial
learning and development, innovation, and diverse
entrepreneurship. He has received funding from various organisations, including
ESRC, ERDF, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Leicestershire Learning
and Skills Council, Centre for Enterprise and UK Trade and Investment to examine
entrepreneurship in different contexts and deliver impact. Apart from contributing to a
number of books and special issues as an editor, his papers have won prizes in
international conferences and have been published in highly reputable academic
journals, including British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management,
International Small Business Journal, Public Administration, Technovation, and Work,
Employment and Society. He has over 10 years of industry experience in the private
and public sectors, in the UK and abroad, prior to his academic carrier.
CLASS VI (Technical and Environmental Sciences)
WU, Desheng Dash
Professor Desheng Dash Wu is Distinguished Professor/Professor/Affiliate Professor
at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Stockholm University/University of
Toronto. He served as managing director of RiskLab at the University of Toronto from
2008-2014 and visiting professor at University of Chicago from summer 2010-2012.
He studies mathematical modeling of management and economic systems under risks
and uncertainty, especially for maximizing operational and financial goals using the
methodologies of game theory and large-scale optimization. He published more than
150 papers in SCI-indexed refereed journals such as the Decision Sciences, Risk
Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE TKDE, Production and Operations
Management, IEEE TSMC.
Several of his papers were recognized as some of the best in respective journals.
Twenty of Prof. Wu’s papers are selected as “10 Big Impact Articles”, “TOP25 Hottest
Article in Elsevier Journals”, “Top 20 Most Cited Articles”. There are more than 6400
Google-Scholar literature citations to his publications. He is ranked first (together with
David Olson) of the leading scholars in the area of Enterprise Risk Management based
on their publications on “enterprise risk” between 2005 and 2014. He developed a
comprehensive risk management methodology, which was termed as “W-O” ERM
Model and Methodology by international scholars in existing literature using the first
letter of last names of Prof. Wu and his co-author Prof. Olson.
His overall research excellence has further been recognized by numerous awards and
fellowships. He is elected as Member from several academies including European
Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fields Institute (for research), Global Young Academy.
He is invited as Nominator for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He is an internationally renowned and award-winning scholar and teacher focusing on
the area of risk analysis, with a particular interest in operations and finance interface.
He is the editor of Springer Book Series on “Computational Risk management” (with
David Olson and John Birge). He has been an Associate Editor/Guest Editor for more
than 15 journals including the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Annals of Operations Research,
Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics,
Risk Analysis, and Omega. He is the Chair of the IEEE Analytics and Risk Technical
Committee, IEEE Social and Economic Security Technical Committee, and leads more
than 15 international committees and meetings.
LI, Xuelong
Xuelong Li is a Chair Professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently
a Deputy Director of the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, where he founded the Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and
Learning (OPTIMAL). He is an Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of
Transient Optics & Photonics, an Associate Director of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging Technology, and the Founding Director
of the Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Ocean Optics. e-mail:
xuelong_li@ieee.org He is a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the
Advancement of Science), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), OSA
(Optical Society of America), SPIE (International Society of Optics and Photonics),
IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), IOP (Institute of Physics),
IEE/IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), and BCS (British Computer
Society). He is an elected Member of the AE (Academia Europaea/Academy of
Europe), EASA (European Academy of Sciences and Arts), and GYA (Global Young
Academy), and an Academician of the IEAS (International Eurasian Academy of
Sciences).
SALEM, Abdel-Badeeh
Prof. Dr. Abdel-Badeeh M Salem He is a full Professor of Computer Science since
June 1989 at Faculty of Science , Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. In 1996 he
moved to the Faculty Computer and Information Sciences. Now he is a professor
emeritus since October 2007 . He was a Director of Scientific Computing Center at
Ain Shams University (1984-1990). His research includes intelligent computing, expert
systems, biomedical informatics, and intelligent e-learning
technologies, knowledge engineering and Biometrics . He has
published around 400 papers in refereed journals and
conference proceedings in these areas. He has been involved
in more than 500 conferences and workshops as a plenary
speaker, member of International Program Committees ,
workshop/invited session organizer and Session Chair. He is
author and co-author of 25 Books in English and Arabic
Languages.
He was one of the founders of the following events, First
Egyptian Workshop on Expert Systems 1987, Int. Cairo
Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications in 1992 and
Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems 2002, and one of the main
sustainers of annual Int. Romanian Internet Learning Workshop Project (RILW), 1997.
In addition he was Secretary of Egyptian Computer Society (1984-1990), Member of
National Committee in Informatics – Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
(1992-200), Member of Egyptian Committee in the Inter-Governmental Informatics
Program, IIP-UNISCO, Paris (1988-1990) and Coordinator of the Annual International
Conference for Statistics, Scientific Computing, and Social and Demographic
Research (1983-1990). In addition he was a partner of a MEDCAMPUS Projects on
Methodologies and Technologies for Distance Education in Mediterranean (1993-
1995). In addition He is a Member of the Editorial Board of 50 international and national
Journals in the following countries: Canada; Italy, Romania, Japan, Turkey, UK and
Egypt. Also, He is member of many Int. Scientific Societies and associations in USA,
UK, Switzerland, Austria, Canada and Egypt.He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health (IJBMIeH),India,
Egyptian Computer Science Journal (ECSJ) and Associate Editor of International
Journal of Applications of Fuzzy Sets and Artificial Intelligence (IJAFSAI),Greece.
Elected member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS),
September 25, 2015 ,Athens, Greece. Member of Alma Mater Europaea of the
European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, January 2016.
YING, Yibin
President, Zhejiang A&F University
Professor, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Sciences, Zhejiang
University
Dr. Ying was born in March 1964 in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province. He received his
bachelor, master and Ph.D. degree from Jiangsu University, Zhejiang Agricultural
University, and Northeast Agricultural University in 1984, 1989, and 1999, respectively.
He worked in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jiangsu University from
August 1984 to September 1986. He joined the Department of Agricultural Engineering
at Zhejiang Agricultural University in August 1989. Since January 1995, he served as
Associate Dean and Dean of College of Agricultural Engineering at Zhejiang
Agricultural University, Executive Associate Dean of College of Biosystems
Engineering and Food Science, Associate Dean of Faculty of Agriculture, Life and
Environment Sciences, and Executive Associate Dean of Chu Kochen Honors College
at Zhejiang University. He was appointed as the Assistant President of Zhejiang
University in October 2013. He had been Executive Vice Dean of the International
Campus at Zhejiang University from April 2014 to April 2016. He served as the Vice
President of Zhejiang University from June 2015 to August 2017. In April 2017, he was
appointed as the President of Zhejiang A&F University.
Dr. Ying’s research is highly interdisciplinary. His research interests and activities focus
on the area of nondestructive sensing technology for
quality and safety evaluation of agro-products, and
robots for bio-production systems. He acts as Associate
Editor or Vice Chairman of 7 key academic journals. He
is a Cheung Kong Scholar, National Excellent Professor
and the winner of National Natural Science Funds for
Distinguished Young Scholar. He received the First Prize
of National Award for Teaching Achievement in 2009 and
2014, respectively; the Second Prize of National Award
for Technological Invention in 2008; advisor for National
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2009; advisor
for three nominations of National Excellent Doctoral
Dissertation Award in 2008, 2010, and 2011, respectively. He was honored with AOC
Distinguished Career Award in 2014 and the AOC Fellow in 2017 by the Association
of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological, and Food Engineers(AOC). Dr. Ying has
been continuously awarded "Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Scientist" for four years
since 2014.
CLASS VIII (Corporate and Public Governance)
LOX, Egbert
Egbert Lox earned his MSc (1982) and PhD (1987) in Chemical
Engineering at the University of Ghent (Belgium).
He joined the central research laboratories of Degussa AG
(Germany) in 1987, where he built up the R&D group for automotive
emission control catalysts and assumed consecutive management
levels in that area till 2006. From 2006 to 2012 he took care of the
management of the corporate R&D team of Umicore, which deploys
its activities in Belgium and in Germany. Since 2013 he assumes
the position of Senior Vice President Government Affairs, based in
Umicore’s headquarters in Brussels (Belgium).
He is chairman of the Board of Directors of Innotek and represents Umicore in the
Board or Executive Committee of several industry associations.
He lectures on automotive emission control catalysts amongst others at the
Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
in Germany. In 2015 he was granted the honorary professorship at this university. He
is member of several university advisory councils and served as jury of PhD-Thesis’s
at universities across the EU. Furthermore he interacts with various RTO’s by being
member of the advisory board and/or strategic evaluation & audit teams.
He is author or co-author of about 130 technical papers; he is also co-inventor of more
than 90 patents in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and is the co-recipient of the
1998 A.T. Colwell Merit Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). He is a
permanent member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts
(KVAB)
PRAET, Michel
Head of the EU Relations Office
of the European Space Agency
After graduating in economics in the Université libre de Bruxelles
and completing the International Executive Programme (INSEAD),
Michel Praet started his career as adviser to Deputy Prime Minister
De Clercq in 1982. After briefly working in the private sector, as
Business Development Manager with Bull, he returned to the public
sector and served as adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Verhofstadt.
He thus became Head of the Space, EC and Eurêka departments
of the Science Policy Office in the Belgian administration as well as
Chairman of the International Space Station Programme Board. In
1993, he became Deputy Director for marketing and sales at Alcatel
Space in Europe. In 1999, he took the head of the European Space Agency DG’s
Cabinet in Brussels. He joined the private office of the President of the European
Council, Herman van Rompuy, in February 2010, where he was, among other tasks,
in charge of R&D, innovation, information society and culture. As from December 2014
he has been Head of the EU relations for ESA. In addition, Mr. Praet is vice-president
of the Museum for Europe and vice-president of the Palace of Fine Arts of Bel
Region Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Hubert Braun
Prof. Dr. Angelika C. Wagner
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Christoph Zeidler 6. März 2018
Wissenschaftlicher Stammtisch
Bericht und Termin
Liebe Kolleginnen, liebe Kollegen,
der Wissenschaftliche Stammtisch am 7.2.2018 zum Thema „Europa und die Idee der Nation“ war
besonders zahlreich besucht und ein unvergesslicher Abend.
Der Referent, Herr Dirk Reimers, ehem. geschäftsführender Vorstand der Deutschen Nationalstif-
tung, gestaltete einen für alle Beteiligten hoch interessanten Abend. Vor dem Hintergrund des Be-
griffs der Nation führte er in die Problematik der Realisierung eines geeinten Europas ein. Der Vor-
trag war eine vorzügliche Einführung in unser neues Rahmenthema „Europa“. Eine Zusammenfas-
sung des Vortrags hat der Referent uns freundlicher Weise zur Verfügung gestellt (vgl. Anlage), in
der die wichtigsten Gedanken des Referenten nachvollzogen werden können. – Dem Vortrag folgte
eine anregende, kritische und ausführliche Aussprache.
Der nächste Wissenschaftliche Stammtisch findet am 6. Juni 2018 um 18.00 im Tagungsraum „Bern“
des Hotels Baseler Hof statt. Referent ist unser Mitglied Prof. Dr. Konstantin Floros. Er wird zu unse-
rem Rahmenthema mit dem Referat „Europäische Perspektiven: Richard Wagners Parzival und der
Pazifismus“ einen von Beispielen begleiteten musikwissenschaftlichen Beitrag leisten.
Wir sind uns sicher, dass dieser musikwissenschaftlich orientierte Vortrag zu unserem Rahmenthema
auf besonderes Interesse stoßen wird, und bitten, den Termin vorzumerken.
Mit herzlichen kollegialen Grüßen
Für die Arbeitsgruppe
Ihr Hubert Braun