Natural Sc. WG
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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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