Working Groups

Dr. Yonas Beyene

Yonas Beyene is Director of the Konso Paleontological Research project. He discovered and published the world’s earliest Acheulean technology and its evolution between 1.75 and 0.8 million years before present. He served as Associate Professor at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris and as Academic Research Vice President of Wolqite University. He was member […]

Prof. Tenalem Ayenew

Tenalem Ayenew is Professor of Hydro-geology at AAU on a joint appointment basis at Beles Engineering PLC. He is member of the National Steering Committee for the water resources development projects of Ethiopia. He has served as General Secretary of the Ethiopian Hydrogeologists Association. He is member of the Ethiopian Geoscience and Mineral Engineering Association […]

Prof. Zerihun Woldu

Zerihun Woldu is Professor of Plant Ecology at the College of Natural Sciences at AAU. He is member of the International Association for Vegetation Science, the International Association for Landscape Ecology, and International Society of Ethnobiology. He has been awarded several research grants for undertaking ecological research. He has published extensively.

Prof. Shimelis Adamssie | Secretary |

Shimelis Adamssie is Professor of Physical Chemistry at AAU. Currently, he is the Director of Materials Science Program at AAU. He served the university in various administrative capacities. He was a visiting scientist at several universities. He is an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia. He has published extensively on […]

Prof. Sileshi Nemomissa | V/Chairperson |

Sileshi Nemomissa is Professor of Biosystematics at AAU. He serves as principal coordinator of multinational research projects. He has pioneered the establishment of DNA Bank at the National Herbarium of Ethiopia, AAU. Currently, this DNA bank houses over 25,000 DNA samples of wild plants collected from nine mountain ecosystems of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. […]

Prof. Tigistu Haile | Chairperson |

Tigistu Haile is Professor of Geophysics at the School of Earth Sciences, College of Natural Sciences of the Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He received his PhD in Geophysics from the Department of Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Technology. He worked on a number of projects both as a PI and as member mostly leading the […]

Prof. Asrat Hailu

Asrat Hailu is Professor of Immunoparasitology at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology at AAU. At AAU, he also served as Director of Research; and as Acting Associate Vice President for Research & Graduate Programs. He served as Head of the Leishmaniasis Research at Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology. He established the Leishmaniasis Research […]

Dr. Zenebe Melaku

Zenebe Melaku is the Country Director of ICAP Columbia University Program Ethiopia and Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA. He has MD degree (with Gold Medal) and a specialty certificate in internal medicine from Addis Ababa University. He won Fellowships from the University of Limoges, France and […]

Prof. Alemayehu Worku

Alemayehu Worku is Professor of Public Health/Biostatistics at the School of Public Health of Addis Ababa University. He has a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Leipzig, Germany. He has served in capacity building and knowledge transfer programs in public health at Jimma, Gondar, Mekelle, Haramaya, Hawassa and Arbaminch universities. He has served as […]

Dr.Solomon Teferra | Secretary |

Solomon Teferra is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Mental Health Epidemiology. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychiatric Epidemiology from Umeå University, Sweden. He is Head of Research Division and Chair of Scientific Committee at the Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia. He is also Associate Faculty of […]

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