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Writing / Irene Vega
The Royal Academy of Sciences (RAC) is made up of permanent academics (a maximum of 72), corresponding (a maximum of 144), supernumerary and foreign academics, and groups its members into three sections: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and Natural Sciences. The appointment of Professor Miguel Ángel Fernández Sanjuán as a full member has been approved in the last plenary session held at the RAC.
“It is a great honor and recognition to be part of an institution like the Royal Academy of Sciences and I feel deeply grateful and, at the same time, it is an enormous responsibility to be at the service of the institution,” says the URJC professor.
Miguel Ángel Fernández Sanjuán directs the research group in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems at the URJC, which has contributed to pioneering work in various areas of this specialty and has promoted the development of this area of research in multiple facets. During his professional career, he has been principal investigator in more than 20 projects with competitive public funding and has supervised more than 20 doctoral theses on the topics of Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems.
Furthermore, honorary professor at several universities in China and has been a visiting researcher at various European, American and Asian universities, as well as fellow for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Tokyo and fulbright scholar in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology from the University of Maryland.
Currently, he is a scientific evaluator for numerous international research agencies, as well as editor-in-chief Journal Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, editor of the Book Series on Complexity, Nonlinearity and Chaos from the prestigious publishing house World Scientific and general editor of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics.
He is also the official nominator of the Japan Prize for the Japan Prize Foundation, member of several prestigious institutions such as the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee for the European Physical Society and the Scientific Advisory Council of the GADEA Foundation for Science (CCA-FGC), in the Knowledge Area of Physical and Universe Sciences. Likewise, he is a foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the European Academy.The Academy of Europe.
In 2020, he was the first awardee to receive the Chieh Su Hsu Award for distinguished researchers in Nonlinear Dynamics and Control. And in 2022 he was also the first recipient of the James Yorke Award for his great contributions in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.
The RAC, a centenary institution
The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain is a public institution dedicated to the study and research of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology, and their applications, as well as their promotion for the benefit of society and integrated into the Institute of Spain. It was founded on February 25, 1847, during the reign of Isabel II, which continues with its name to this day. The Royal Academy of Sciences has had illustrious scientists among its members such as José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Blas Cabrera y Felipe, Santiago Ramón y Cajal or Gregorio Marañón.