Driss Ben-Sari
FAAS FTWAS (, born 1942) is a Moroccan professor of Geophysics at the Department of Civil Engineering,
Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Life and career
Ben-Sari was born in
Taza
Taza ( ber, ⵜⴰⵣⴰ, ar, تازة) is a city in northern Morocco occupying the corridor between the Rif mountains and Middle Atlas mountains, about 120 km east of Fez and 150 km west of Al hoceima. It recorded a population of 148 ...
,
Morocco in 1942. He obtained his first degree in Geographical Sciences from National Institute of Geography, France in 1965. He received his master's degree in Applied Geophysics from the
French Institute of Petroleum, before completing a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical Sciences at the
University of Grenoble in 1977.
Ben-Sari then returned to Morocco, and he has been a professor of Geophysics at the Department of Civil Engineering,
Mohammadia School of Engineering, Mohammed V University,
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
, since 1978.
Ben-Sari served as Coordinator of the International Centre of Sciences and High Technology, and a Director of the Moroccan Institute of Astronomy, the National alert network for earthquakes, and the National Centre for Research and Planning of Science.
He is member of the
Society for Technical Communication,
International Council for Science
The International Council for Science (ICSU, after its former name, International Council of Scientific Unions) was an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the advancement of science. Its members ...
, and Independent World Commission on the Ocean.
Ben-Sari published his memoirs: ''Vivid memories'' ()'', testimonies and experiences of a lifetime''.
Awards and honours
Ben-Sari was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS) in 1987,
and Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS) in 1988.
Ben-Sari received the Scientific Grand Prize of Morocco.
References
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences
TWAS fellows
1942 births
Living people
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