The president

The President leads the University, defines its development strategies and ensures coherence among governance, research and education.

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The University President: guarantor of the strategic vision

The President’s mandate at UEMF is four years renewable. In case of death, inability to perform duties, or when the Board of Directors decides to appoint a new President, the proposal is obligatorily submitted for the approval of His Majesty The King, Honorary President of the Euromed University of Fes.

The President is chosen from individuals recognized for their academic and scientific competence at the international level. He must present a strategic development project for the University in line with the missions assigned to it.

Pr. BOUSMINA Mostapha

President of the Euromed University of Fes

The President’s duties

• manages the University and all its components;

• chairs the meetings of the University Council (UC) ;

• represents the University before any administration, constituted bodies, national or foreign universities and any third party ;

• accepts donations and bequests ;

• holds all necessary powers for the management of the University and its components;

• proposes development projects for the University to the Board ;

• commits the University’s expenditures in accordance with the budget set by the Board;

• keeps the accounts of expenditures committed and settles the University’s expenditures and revenues ;

• proposes the agendas of the General Assembly and Board to the Chancellor ;

• executes the decisions adopted by the Board, or delegates their execution ;

• prepares the annual budgets and ensures their execution after they have been approved by the Board of Directors;

• recruits the University’s teaching and research staff as well as its administrative and technical personnel ;

• ensures the coordination of the activities of the University's various entities, faculties, institutes, departments, units, joint units, partnership entities and centers ;

• carries out audits concerning the management of the University (financial management, administrative management and any other aspect related to the functioning of the University);

• takes all precautionary measures and represents the University in court ;

• ensures the maintenance of discipline within the University.

Career Academic

• Engineer, graduate of the École Hauts Polymères (EAHP, currently ECPM), France;

• DEA: Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, France;

• PhD in Physical Chemistry from Université Louis-Pasteur in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States;

• Post-doctorate at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.

Specialty: Polymer Physics, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies.

Responsibilities current

• President of Euromed University of Fes

• Chancellor of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Techniques

• President of ASRIC (African Scientific Research Innovation Council) which reports to the African Union

Responsibilities previous

• Professor at Université Laval, Canada (Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor and then Full Professor)

• Full Professor of the Senior Research Chair in Polymer Physics and Nanomaterials, Université Laval, Canada

• Director of Graduate Studies, and of Plastics Engineering, Université Laval, Canada

• Co-founder of the MASciR (Moroccan Advanced Science, Innovation & Research) research center for which he was General Director until 2011.

Other Responsibilities previous

• President of NASAC (Network of African Science Academies)

• Member of the Canadian Team for Aerospace (Canadian Space Agency) which selects experiments to be performed in space in collaboration with the European Space Agency ESA and NASA

• President of the International ‘‘Morand LamblaAward’’ Prize of the International Polymer Processing Society

• President of the International ‘‘James Lee White Award’’ Prize of the International Polymer Processing Society

• Chair of the NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) evaluation committee in chemical engineering and mining and metallurgy

• Chair of the Evaluation Committee of the Arbora-Nano Research Centres of Excellence in Canada

• Official Examiner of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec Canada (IOQ)

• Official advisor to the Canadian Government for industrial research

• President of the Quebec Society of Polymers

• Director of the Society of Plastics Engineers of Quebec

• Vice-President of the Canadian Society of Rheology

Prof. Bousmina is a member of

The World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS)

The African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

Honorary member of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity

International Representative of Polymer Processing Society

He was member of the

• Board of Directors of PSL (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres)

• Executive Committee of the World Society ‘‘Polymer Processing Society’

• Executive Committee of the IAP (InterAcademy Partnership), a global network that brings together more than 150 science academies from the five continents.

He is also :

• Associate Editor of Recent Patents in Nanotechnology

• Associate Editor of Journal of Polymer Engineering (between 2008 and 2017)

• Associate Editor of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Polymer Processing

• Former Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

Scientific Production

• 233 scientific articles in indexed international journals and 9 international invention patents with more than 11935 citations and an H-index of 58 (Source Web of Science; Scopus);

• more than 15417 citations and an H-index of 67 (Source Google Scholar).

Awards and Distinctions

• The Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Spain in 2022

• The Grand Innovation Prize in 2009 awarded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education, Training of Managers and Scientific Research of Morocco

• The Prestigious Steacie Fellowship in 2004 which is considered the highest research distinction in Canada

• The Top20-Canada Prize in 2002 awarded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for the 20 best researchers in Canada ;

• The International Morand LamblaAward Prize in 2000 awarded by the International Society (Polymer Processing Society) to the best researcher worldwide in the field of polymers

• The Research Innovation Prize in 2009 awarded by the Quebec Ministry of Industry, Canada;

• The Louis Pasteur Prize in 1992.