Prof. Hussein Samir Salama

Prof. Salama was born in Gharbia, Egypt, in 1936.

He earned his degrees at Ain Shams University, Faculty of Science (BSc in 1955, MSc in 1959) and Cairo University, PhD and DSc in Entomology in 1962 and 1987, respectively.

A post-doctoral fellow (1963-1965) at the Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (1963-1965); Prof. Salama was also a fellow of Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation where he joined the Institute of Applied Zoology, University of Munich (1974-1976).

He started his career as a Research Assistant, National Research Center (NRC) in Cairo in 1956. He then became Researcher; Associate Research Professor; and Research Professor of Entomology at NRC in 1973. He went on to become President for the NRC between 1988-1992, and then Emeritus Research Professor since 1996.

Prof. Salama was awarded the State Prize for Biological Sciences (1973); the Golden Medal of NRC (1981); the Golden Medal of the Entomological Society of Egypt (1982); the State Prize for Sciences Prize for Agricultural Sciences (1983); the African Academy of Sciences Prize for Agriculture (1991); and the Recognition State Prize for Basic Sciences (1994).

Prof. Salama is/was member of several learned bodies including: the board of the National Research Centre, Egypt; Vice-President of the Research Council for Basic Sciences, Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology; the Egyptian Institute for Scientific Culture (1991); the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). He was Vice President of the Entomological Society of Egypt; an elected member of the board of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences, TWAS Fellow, Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and Founding Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1986).