Speaker Details

Mostafa A. El-Sayed

Biography:

He received his B.Sc. at Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt; PhD at Florida State University; postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. He was a faculty member at UCLA Department at chemistry and biochemidtry (1961-94) and Julius Brown Chair and regents' professor at Georgia Institute of Technology department of chemistry and biochemistry (1994-present).

Professor El-Sayed is an elected member of the US NAtional Academy of Sciences (1980); an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986); and elected associate member of the Third World Academy of Sciences (1984); an inaugural fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. he is an honorary fellow of the Indian Chemical Society and of the Chinese Chemical Society.

Professor El-Sayed was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow, Germany (1982), a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, an Alfred P. Sloan as well as a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, a Fairchild Fellow at Cal Tech and a Miller Visiting Professor at U.C. Berkley.

Professor El-Sayed published over 580 publications please see: (http://ldl.gatech.edu/pub.pdf) in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of molecular dynamics and energy conversion, photobiology, laser spectroscopy and lately in developing the field of Nano-technology specially nano-catalysis, nanobiology and nano-medicine,. The citations to his work in the last decade (1990-2009) placed him fourth in the field of Chemistry World-wide.

He received the King Faisal International Prize in the Sciences (Chemistry), (1990); an honorary Doctor Degrees from the Colleges of Medicine of both Mansoura and Alexandria Universities in Egypt. He has received a number of national awards such as the Fresenius, the Tolman, the Richard’s medal, the Lindeman’s medal, the Seaborg’s medal as well as other numerous local American Chemical Society sectional awards. In 2002, he received the ACS-APS Langmuir National Award in Chemical Physics and in 2007 he was the Georgia Tech’s distinguished Professor of the year. Professor El-Sayed Received the 2007 USA National Medal of Science in Chemistry from the President of the United States in 2008 and the Medal of the Egyptian Republic of the First Class from the President of Egypt in 2009.

Status: Confirmed