The mandate of the President of the UEMF is four years, renewable.
In the event of death, inability to exercise his functions or when the Orientation, Surveillance and Development Council decides to appoint a new President, this proposal must be submitted for the approval of His Majesty The King, President of 'Honor of the Euromed University of Fez. The President is chosen from among personalities recognized for their academic and scientific skills at the international level. He must present a strategic development project for the University in line with the missions assigned to him.
The President:
• manages the University and all of its components;
• chairs meetings of the University Council (CU);
• represents the University before any administration, corporate bodies, national or foreign Universities and any third party;
• accepts donations and legacies;
• holds all power necessary for the management of the University and its components;
• proposes University development projects to the COSD;
• incurs University expenses in accordance with the budget established by the COSD;
• keeps accounts of expenses incurred and liquidates the University's expenses and revenues;
• proposes to the Chancellor the agendas of the AG and COSD (CA);
• executes the decisions taken by the COSD, or delegates their execution;
• develops annual budgets and ensures their execution after they have been approved by the COSD;
• recruits the University's teaching and research staff as well as administrative and technical staff;
• ensures the coordination of the activities of the different entities, faculties, institutes, departments, units, mixed units, partnership entities and centers of the University;
• undertakes audits concerning the management of the University (financial management, administrative management and any other aspect related to the functioning of the University);
• performs all precautionary acts and represents the University in court;
• ensures that discipline is maintained within the University.
Pr. Mostapha Bousmina
President of the UEMF
Training:
• Engineer, laureate of the Écoles Hauts Polymères (EAHP, currently ECPM), France;
• DEA: Louis-Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France;
• Doctorate in Physics-Chemistry from Louis-Pasteur University in collaboration with the University of Illinois in Chicago, United States;
• Post-doctorate at the École Polytechnique de Montréal-Canada.
Specialty: Physics of Polymers, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies.
Current responsibilities:
• President of the Euromed University of Fez
• Chancellor of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology
• President of ASRIC (African Scientific Research Innovation Council) which depends on the African Union
Previous responsibilities:
• Professor at Laval University, Canada (Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor and then Full Professor)
• Full Professor of the Senior Research Chair in the Physics of Polymers and Nanomaterials, Laval University, Canada
• Director of Graduate Studies and Plastics Engineering, Laval University, Canada
• Co-founder of the MASciR (Moroccan Advanced Science, Innovation & Research) research center of which he was Managing Director until 2011.
Other previous responsibilities:
• President of NASAC (Network of African Academies of Sciences)
• Member of the Canadian Aerospace Team (Canadian Space Agency) which selects experiments to be carried out in space in collaboration with the Space Agency European ESA and NASA
• President of the International ''Morand LamblaAward'' of the International PolymerProcessing Society
• President of the International ''James Lee White Award'' of the International PolymerProcessing Society
• President of the NSERC Evaluation Committee (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) in chemical engineering and mining and metallurgy
• President of the Evaluation Committee of Arbora-Nano Centers of Excellence in Research in Canada
• Official Examiner of the Order of Engineers of Quebec Canada (IOQ)
• Official advisor to the Canadian Government for research in an industrial environment
• President of the Société Québécoise des Polymères
• Director of the Society of Plastics Engineers of Quebec
• Vice-President of the Canadian Society of Rheology
Teacher.
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 of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity
• International Representative of PolymerProcessing Society
He was a member of:
• Board of Directors of PSL (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres)
• Executive Committee of the World PolymerProcessing Society
• Executive Committee of the IAP (Inter AcademyPartnearship), a global network which brings together more than 150 science academies of 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 PolymerProcessing
• Former Editor-in-Chief from Journal of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
Scientific Production:
• 215 scientific articles in indexed international journals and 7 international invention patents with more than 11,000 citations and an H-index of 53 (Source Web of Science; scopus);
• more than 13,500 citations and an H-index of 59 (Source Google Schola).
Prizes and Distinctions:
• The Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Spain in 2022
• The Grand Prize for Innovation in 2009 awarded by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Training of Executives and Scientific Research in Morocco
• The Prestigious Steacie Scholarship in 2004 which is considered the highest distinction in research in Canada
• The Top20-Canada Prize in 2002 awarded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for the 20 best researchers from Canada ;
• The International Morand LamblaAward in 2000 awarded by the International Society (PolymerProcessing Society) to the best researcher worldwide in the field of polymers
• The Research Innovation Prize in 2009 awarded by the Ministry of Industry of Quebec -Canada;
• The Louis Pasteur Prize in 1992.