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Choueiri Elected President of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences
Edgar Choueiri, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Engineering Physics Program, was elected President of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences.
The election took place on June 27 at the academy's first meeting in Paris under the aegis of the French Academy of Sciences, which has overseen the creation of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences (LAS) over the past two years.
Professor Choueiri is one of the founding members of the LAS, which was officially founded in July of 2007 with Mr. Fouad Saniora, Prime Minister of Lebanon, as its Honorary President. The Paris meeting was presided by Sir Michael Atiyah, the British Mathematician, who was also elected to the Executive Committee of the LAS.
The LAS is an independent learned society, modeled after the French Academy of Sciences, with members from inside and outside Lebanon, and with the mission of enhancing the growth of scientific research in Lebanon and advising the Lebanese nation on science.
Professor Choueiri joined the Princeton faculty in 1996 and works on problems in astronautics, spacecraft propulsion and plasma physics.
He heads the Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Lab, and is also Associated Faculty at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics.
July 02, 2008