Egyptian-American chemical physicist Mostafa A. El-Sayed was elected to be the president of the Zewail City of Science and Technology to be a successor to the late Nobel Prize laureate Ahmed Zewail, said the city spokesperson Sherif Fouad in a statement on Sunday.
El-Sayed is one of the city’s Board of Trustees and co-founder. He was appointed by U.S. President Obama as a member of the President’s National Medal of Science Committee in 2014; he also is a Regents’ Professor at Georgia Chemistry and Tech Biochemistry college of Sciences.
Zewail City is a non-profit scientific institute and was proposed in 1999, but a Cabinet decree on May 11, 2011 labeled the project a “National Project of Scientific Renaissance” and called it Zewail City of Science and Technology.
