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La Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain (RAC) has held the solemn ceremony of admission of Professor Miguel Ángel Fernández Sanjuán to the institution in Madrid. This prestigious recognition marks a significant achievement in his career.
In his speech, the URJC professor thanked academics Juan María Marcaide Osoro, Miguel Ángel Alario Franco and Manuel Aguilar Benítez de Lugo for having nominated him to occupy the recently created Medal 60 in the Physical and Chemical Sciences Section.
Professor Sanjuán also expressed his gratitude to the Academy, highlighting the honour of joining an institution that has maintained the highest standards of scientific excellence over the past two centuries.
In his inaugural address, entitled "Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and complexity: interdisciplinarity in science", the new RAC academician offered a panoramic view of the field of research, highlighting the profound influence of chaos theory and the butterfly effect on physics and other sciences. He concluded by conveying a vision of a promising future for research in the physics of complex systems. The text of the written speech can be downloaded here.
Professor Sanjuán is a professor of Physics and heads the research group on Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems at the URJC.
Outstanding professional career of research work and recognitions
Professor Sanjuán has contributed to pioneering work in various areas of Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems, as well as promoting the development of this area of research in multiple facets, fostering interdisciplinarity. During his professional career, he has been principal investigator in more than 20 projects with competitive public funding and has directed more than 20 doctoral theses on topics of Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems. His research also has a marked international character, with more than two hundred collaborators of twenty-five different nationalities among his publications.
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 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Tokyo and Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland.
Currently, he is a scientific evaluator for numerous international research agencies, as well as Editor-in-chief from the 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 of the Japan Prize Foundation, member of several prestigious institutions such as the EPJ Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Physical Society and the Scientific Advisory Board of the GADEA Foundation for Science (CCA-FGC), in the area of knowledge of Physical and Universe Sciences. He is also a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Lithuania, the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences of Serbia and the Academia Europaea-The Academy of Europe.
In 2020, he was the first laureate 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.
About the Royal Academy of Sciences
The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain is made up of full members (a maximum of 72), corresponding members (a maximum of 144), supernumeraries and foreign members, and groups its members into three sections: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and Natural Sciences.
The RAC is a public institution dedicated to the study and research of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geology, and their applications, as well as to their promotion for the benefit of society. It was founded on February 25, 1847, during the reign of Isabel II, and her name remains with her 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 and Gregorio Marañón.