Professor Ibarra elected to Academia Europaea
Professor Oscar Ibarra was recently elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea in the Informatics Section. Academia Europaea is a non-governmental association of scientists and scholarswho collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.Founded in 1988, the organization’s more than 2000 members include leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and law. The Informatics Section (IS) is one of 17 sections of the Academia. As of 2007, IS had 73 members of which 7 are Foreign Members. Professor Ibarra now joins this elite group.