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Professor Sebsebe Demissew Becomes the First Foreign Member of the Royal Society from sub-Saharan Africa
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society has elected Prof. Sebsebe Demissew as one of the ten new utländsk Members this year. The Royal Society is one of the world’s most prestigious science academies. Each year it admits to its membership up to 52 new Fellows from the UK and the Commonwealth and up to 10 Foreign Members from around the globe. Prof. Sebsebe was one of the 75 candidates shortlisted for nomination as Foreign Member of the Royal Society. Members are elected for life through a peer review process based on substantial contribution to science. Election to the Royal Society is a mark of international recognition for distinguished work in research. Prof. Sebsebe’s election to the Royal Society’s membership is yet another testament to his outstanding research work in Ethiopia, Africa and europe which has earned him similar other national and international recognition and honors
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Prof. Sebsebe Demissew, a leading Ethiopian botanical scientist, has been selected to be the recipient of this year’s prestigious Kew International Medal. The Medal is an annual award given to individuals for distinguished, internationally-recognised work aligned with the mission of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBGK), to be the global resource for plant and fungal knowledge, building an understanding of the world’s plants and fungi upon which all our lives depend.
A reception to celebrate this award takes place at the British Embassy in Addis Ababa on October 20thand he has also been invited to give a lecture in London at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in early 2017.
In selecting Prof. Demissew, RBG, Kew acknowledges his lifelong work on promoting Ethiopian biodiversity and the direct benefit this has daily for people in his country, and right across Africa.
Professor Kathy Willis, Director of Science, RBG Kew said,
“Professor Sebsebe is a high
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Sebsebe Demissew (Bio)
Sebsebe Demissew, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management at the College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0123-9596), earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Botany from Uppsala University (Sweden) in 1985. His expertise encompasses biodiversity, ethnobotany, ecology, and systematics, with a focus on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. For over two decades, he led the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea project in which over 6,000 vascular plant species are documented, and he described numerous new species to science. He has published seven books and over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Prof. Sebsebe's significant contributions to science have been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including:
• The 2022 Linnean Society Medal (Botany)
• The 2021 José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany
• The 2020 “Prof. Luigi Tartufari” International Prize for B