Professor Denis Allemand is nominated corresponding member of the European Academy of Science, Art and Humanities (Academia Europea)
Professor Denis Allemand, Scientific Director of the Scientifc Centre of Monaco and Professor of Biology in the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, has just been nominated corresponding member of the European Academy of Science, Art and Humanities (Academia Europea). The European Academy, a non-governmental organisation founded in 1988 following the initiative of various European ministers of research, groups together fellow members of the Academies of Science and Letters within various European countries, as well as Nobel prize winners and a certain number of corresponding members chosen for the quality of their work. To date, the Academy groups together almost 2000 experts from 53 countries across the world, including 38 winners of the Nobel prize. It maintains close relations with UNESCO as well as various national and inter-governmental organisations. The role of the European Academy is to lend advice to national research agencies, to promote excellence within the various disciplines of Science, Art and Humanities, to foster international and interdisciplinary research, as well as to encourage the circulation of science amongst a wide sector of the public.