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IAP Young Scientists 2011
IAP Young Scientists 2011 nominated by their National Science Academies, who participated in the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions (Dalian, China), September 2011.
Erik Ingelsson
Sweden
Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Karolinska Institutet
Erik Ingelsson was born in 1975 in Eskilstuna, Sweden and graduated with a medical degree in 2000 from Uppsala University. He defended his thesis ‘Insulin Resistance and Inflammation as Risk Factors for Congestive Heart Failure’ and was awarded his PhD in 2005. During 2000 to 2006 he was doing his internship and residency in general practice in Gavle and Uppsala. After a post-doc at the Framingham Heart Study in 2006-2007, and positions as Assistant and Associate Professor in Uppsala and at Karolinska Institutet in 2007-2010, he was appointed Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in 2010. Participated in the 4th IAP Young Scientists Conference in ...
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Associate Professor Artiwan Shotipruk graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor degree in 1995 and completed her graduate studies in chemical engineering at The University of Michigan, USA, in 2001. Currently, she holds teaching and research position at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University. Her research interest is in extraction and purification of natural compounds, particularly applying sub and supercritical fluids technology. Recently, she received the Young Scientist Award, from the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under Patronage of His Majesty the King in 2008, the “For Women in Science” Fellowship, from ...
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PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, US. Formerly, with Light Photonics, Coherent and Corning in US, working on high-power semiconductor lasers. Currently: also President, Xi'an Focuslight Technologies; current work on development of high power semiconductor laser technology and products; research interests include optoelectronic packaging, characterization, processing design and development, thermal management, reliability evaluation and failure analysis of optoelectronic devices and packages. Author of over 90 papers in journals and conference proceedings; holds about 20 US and Chinese patents. Senior Member, IEEE ...
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Dr Patience Mthunzi
South Africa
Senior Scientist
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Patience Mthunzi holds a PhD (2010) in Physics (Biophotonics – Optical Tweezers Area) from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. She is the first known person in South Africa to qualify for a PhD in this field of study. She started employment with the
National Laser Centre (NLC) in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)in the Biophotonics group in October 2004. During November 2005 to April 2006 she set up a fully functional cell culture facility at the NLC before commencing her PhD (May 2006) in the UK. She is currently a senior scientist researcher at the NLC in the Biophotonics group, leading single cell and/or molecule projects. Her work is pretty varied. The ...
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1998, BSc in Mathematics and Physics and 1999, BSc in Physics, University of the North, South Africa; 2005, PhD in Physics, University of Limpopo, South Africa. 2005-06 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Junior Lecturer, University of Limpopo; since 2007, current position, research focuses on computational modelling of battery materials for use in energy storage devices. Recipient of Awards: Women in Science; National Science and Technology Forum award sponsored by National research Foundation. Praticipated at the 4th IAP Young Scientists Conference in Dalian held in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, September 2011, China.
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I received the MSc degree in Chemistry from Vienna University of Technology, Austria and the PhD degree in Physics from the University of Vienna, Austria. From 2005-2008 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Physics at the Harvard University, USA. In 2007 I became member of the German Young Academy (JA) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. Currently, I am an Assistant-Professor, at the University of Vienna. My current research interests include: the experimental investigation of fundamental principles in quantum physics and to realize quantum-enhanced applications such as quantum communication, quantum computation and ...
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Maja Bacovic
Montenegro
Associate Professor
University of Montenegro
Professor of Macroeconomics and Economic Statistics at the University of Montenegro. President of the Council of the Statistical system of Montenegro from 2006-11, member since 2011. President of the Board of Directors of Montenegro Stock Exchange from 2006-2008. Senior Analyst within Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses from 1999-2007, and member of several Economic Reforms Project Teams. Author of two books and more than 40 papers. Member of the Center of Young Scientists and Department for Economic Research within Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Science.
Attended 4th IAP Young Scientists Conference and Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) of the WEF in Dalian, China in ...
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2001, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science; 2001-2002, Research Fellow, Physical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Würzburg University; 2002-2005, Postdoctoral Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt fellow, Heterogeneous
Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. 2005-2009, Group Leader and Associate Professor, Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung; since 2008, Professor of School of Chemical engineering in Dalian University of Technology. Research interests: designed synthesis and functionalization of nanostructured materials and their applications in energy storage, adsorption, drug ...
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Dr Marnie E Blewitt
Australia
Laboratory head
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Completed undergraduate studies at The University of Sydney, with honours and a double major of Molecular Biology and Genetics (1999). She continued at the University for her PhD studies, working with Prof. Emma Whitelaw on mammalian epigenetics (2005). During her PhD, she designed and developed a sensitised mutagenesis screen to find novel epigenetic modifiers in the mouse, a challenging project for which she was awarded the Genetics Society of Australia DG Catcheside prize for the best PhD in Genetics. Marnie moved to Melbourne at the end of 2005 to take up a National Health and Medical Research Council Australia Peter Doherty Post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Douglas Hilton at The ...
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2000, degree in Chemical Engineering, University of Alabama, US; 2005, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. 2005-06, Postdoctoral Research Associate and ACS PRF Fellow, Northwestern University; 2006-09, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University; since 2009, current position. Director, Separations Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Secretary/Treasurer, International Adsorption Society. Meeting Chairman, German-American Frontiers of Science, US National Academies and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Author of articles. Expertise: design, synthesis, and characterization of functional porous materials for use in CO2 capture, air purification, energy ...
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