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Professor Mohamed H. A. Hassan

President, African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

Mohamed H. A. Hassan is President of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). He is Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, Secretary General of the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO) and serves on a number of committees in other organizations worldwide. He was born in the Sudan in 1947, and obtained his BSc in Mathematics from the UK in 1968, an MSc in advanced Mathematics from Oxford University in 1969 and a DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) in Plasma Physics, in 1973, from Oxford University.

A former professor and dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum, he received the order of scientific merit of Brazil and the order of merit of Italy. He is a fellow of TWAS, AAS, and the Islamic Academy of Science; honorary member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and the Palestine Academy of Science and Technology; corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Overseas Academy of Sciences; and foreign fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. His research areas include theoretical plasma physics, physics of wind erosion and sand transport.

Sample of Academician's Research

In 1977 Hassan and Watson derived a generalized kinetic equation for a multi-species plasma in an external uniform magnetic field using the BBGKY hierarchy of statistical physics.

A main advantage of that formalism is that the collision integral is obtained in a form which is free from infinite sums of Bessel functions, and this renders the equation particularly useful for calculations in plasma kinetic theory problems. Learn more ...