Prof. Abdelnaser Mahmoud Tawfik

Professor Tawfik was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Scientific Research Honor Society (Sigma Xi). Dr. Tawfik is the founding director of the Egyptian Center for Theoretical Physics and World Laboratory for Cosmology and Particle Physics. Dr. Tawfik is the director of the World Federation of Scientists (WFS) and the UNESCO-TWAS Associateship Scheme. Dr. Tawfik got his first doctorate in Natural Sciences from Philipps University in Germany. He had received a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in mathematics and physics from Uzbekistan and another Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Theoretical Physics from Russia. Professor Tawfik is a visiting professor at both the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and the Islamic University in Madinah. Dr. Tawfik held academic positions in Marburg, Trier, Stuttgart, Bielefeld, and Frankfurt (Germany); Hiroshima (Japan); Tashkent (Uzbekistan); and Assiut, South Valley, Sohag, MTI, NU, FUE, and ACU (Egypt). Professor Tawfik was elected as a UNESCO-TWAS fellow in 2012 and served on its council, representing the Arab world. He was also elected a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Dr. Tawfik has published three books and over 260 scientific papers, reports, and reviews in peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of physics and mathematical subjects, including astronomy, statistics, and geometry.