Mohamed Hag Ali Hag el Hassan

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Early life

Hassan was born in Elgetina, Sudan, on the 21st of November 1947. He obtained a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) with special honours from the

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in 1968, followed by an M.Sc in Advanced Mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1969. He then obtaining his

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in Plasma Physics from the

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in 1974.

Career

Hassan returned to Sudan later became Professor and Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences,

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from 1985 to 1986. Frustrated by scientific stagnation in Sudan, and at the request of his father, Hassan visited Italy, and was then motivated to re-peruse science again by

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laureate,

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who was (at time) working at the

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(ICTP),

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offered Hassan an associate membership at

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to provide a conducive environment for research. Hassan has a long list of publications in theoretical plasma physics and fusion energy, environmental modelling of soil erosion in drylands, and geophysics, astrophysics and space physics. He has also published several articles on science and technology in the developing world. Hassan was the founding Executive Director of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (TWAS) in 1983, President of the

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in 2000, President of the Network of Academies of Science in Africa (NASAC) in 2001 and Chairman, President of the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences, Director of Secretariat of

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(IAP) in 2001, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology, Nigeria in 2001, and Chair of the Governing Council of the United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries. He also is a founding member of the

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. He is a member of several merit-based academies of science, including

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, the

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, Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer,

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;

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, and Academy of Sciences of South Africa. Hassan is the co-chair of resident of the

(IAP), and chairman of the Council of the

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(UNU). He also serves on a number of Boards of international organizations worldwide, including the Board of Trustees of

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, Egypt, the Council of Science and Technology in Society (STS ) Forum, Japan, the Board of the

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, Sweden, the Board of the Science Initiative Group (SIG), USA, the International Advisory Board of the Centre for International Development (ZEF), Germany, the advisory group of the

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Awards and honours

Hassan is Comendador (1996) and Grand (2005) Cross of the Brazilian

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, Officer of the

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(2003), and he is the recipient of the G77 Leadership Award and of the

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for Science and Technology. Hassan is a Founding Fellow of the

(1985), a Fellow of

(1985), a Fellow of the

(1992), an Honorary Member of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales (1996), and a Foreign Fellow of the

(2002).

Personal life

Hassan is married with three children.

Selected publications

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassan, Mohamed H.A. Sudanese mathematicians Sudanese physicists 1947 births Living people Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) TWAS fellows Sudanese scientists Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences Founder Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences University of Khartoum alumni Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Fellows of the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences