Global Young Academy

The Global Young Academy aims to be the "Voice for Young Scientists" and encourages international, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue. The GYA has working groups on science education, science and society, early career development, and interdisciplinary issues. The typical age of members is approximately 35 years old; members are expected to be several years past their doctoral studies. The GYA reached its full capacity of 200 members in 2014. As of 2023, members and alumni of the GYA hail from 101 countries. The office of the GYA is hosted at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale), Germany. ==History==

The Global Young Academy was founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, after a preliminary organizational meeting in 2008 sponsored by the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues and the World Economic Forum and a second organizational meeting in 2009 in Dalian, China. Its founding co-chairs are Gregory Weiss, a chemist from the University of California, Irvine, United States, and Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri from the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Thailand. Previous co-chairs include (2018) Drs. Tolu Oni, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Connie Nshemereirwe, Actualise Africa, Uganda and (2019) Drs. Connie Nshemereirwe and Koen Vermeir. The current (2023/24) co-chairs are Drs. Felix Moronta Barrios and Priscilla Kolibea Mante. ==Goals==

The academy aims to bring together young scientists to solve global problems and policy issues that require interdisciplinary expertise, promote a scientific culture in which excellence in research is more highly valued than seniority, and improve the foundations of science worldwide by providing encouragement and recognition to researchers in countries with underdeveloped national scientific programs. ==Notable members==

• Olanike Adeyemo • Noble Banadda • Tilman Brück • Sophie Carenco • Eqbal Dauqan • Bilge Demirköz • Saeid Esmaeilzadeh • Michal Feldman • Rajesh Gopakumar • Ingrid Johnsrude • Nathalie Katsonis • Yamuna Krishnan • Xuelong Li • Yueh-Lin Loo • Ernesto Lupercio • Salomé Martínez • Sandra McLaren • Hiba Mohamed • Patience Mthunzi-Kufa • Tolullah Oni • Noelle Selin • Bettina Speckmann • Raissa D’Souza • Erick Tambo • Dacheng Tao • Nguyen TK Thanh • Jenny Y. Yang • Princess Sumaya bint Hassan (Advisory Board) • Bruce Alberts (Advisory Board) • Howard Alper (Advisory Board) • (Advisory Board) • Helmut Schwarz (Advisory Board) ==References==