Abdel Nasser Tawfik was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2020. As a fellow, Abdel Nasser Tawfik contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.
Professor Tawfik has been an associate Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP) in London, UK, since 2024, and was chosen as a Fellow of The Scientific Research Honor Society (Sigma Xi) in North Carolina, USA, in 2025. Dr. Tawfik is the founding director of the Egyptian Center for Theoretical Physics (ECTP), established in 2008, and the World Laboratory for Cosmology and Particle Physics (WLCAPP), established in 2011. Dr. Tawfik took over as director of the World Federation of Scientists (WFS) national scholarship program in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as the UNESCO-TWAS associateship scheme in Trieste, Italy. Dr. Tawfik got his first doctorate, Dr.rer.Nat (Ph.D.) in Natural Sciences, from Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, in 1999. In 2012, the Supreme Attestation Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan verified that he had received the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree in mathematics and physics. Professor Tawfik also received a second Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Theoretical Physics from Saint Petersburg State University in Russia in 2024. Professor Tawfik is a visiting professor at both the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and the Islamic University in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Ulugh Beg of Uzbekistan (2009), Nathia Gali of Pakistan (2010), the Supreme Council of Universities of Egypt (2013), and FIAS of Germany (2018) all promoted him to full professorship. Dr. Tawfik held academic positions in Marburg, Trier, Stuttgart, Bielefeld, and Frankfurt (Germany), Hiroshima (Japan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), and Assiut, South Valley, Sohag, MTI, NU, FUE, and ACU (Egypte). Dr. Tawfik has served on a number of accreditation, attestation, and examination committees, as well as syllabus and curricula creation panels. He was trusted as department chair at a number of these academic institutions. Professor Tawfik was designated a UNESCO-TWAS fellow in 2012, and he has served as a UNESCO-TWAS councilor representing the Arab World since 2016. In 2020, he was also elected a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in Nairobi, Kenya. He has been a fellow of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) since 2008 and serves on the National Committee for Physics, the Network for Nuclear Sciences, and the Egyptian Network for High-Energy Physics. Dr. Tawfik serves on a number of educational, scientific, and development boards and forums. He consults for research institutions, funding organizations, and universities in Germany, Russia, the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa, Uzbekistan, India, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia. In the industrial sector, he was appointed senior advisor to Vodafone Germany. Dr. Tawfik has published three books (in German, English, and Arabic) and over 260 scientific papers, reports, and reviews in peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of physics and mathematical subjects, including astronomy, statistics, and geometry. His research's influence qualified him for inclusion in the world's top 2% of most-cited scientists since its inception. Dr. Tawfik is a pioneer in launching and actively participating in ambitious outreach projects aimed at increasing public awareness and popularization of science, for which he has received national and worldwide recognition.
