Elected: 2013
Country (Nationality)
Ethiopia
Discipline
Chemical Sciences
Bio
Ermias Dagne is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and is now Director of ALNAP (African Laboratory for Natural Products) which is a network of five African laboratories in neighboring countries. He is fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Science (EAS), the African Academy of Science (AAS) and the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS). He was also fellow several years ago of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH-Germany) and Fulbright Fellowship (USA). He is recipient of two international awards: IFS/DANIDA (1997) and IOCD Pierre Crabbe (2003). He has published extensively and has developed the Natural Database for Africa (NDA), which can be accessed on CDROM or in the internet (www.alnapnetwork.com). His research was supported by grants including local Addis Ababa University and International Foundation for Science (IFS), ISP-IPICS and Sida-SAREC (Sweden). With his wife Tadelech and daughters Dina and Beza he manages a family natural products business known as ARITI HERBAL (www.aritiherbal.com) (www.aritidatabase.com ). Ariti is now known for bringing to local and international markets a wide array of value added products through distillation and extraction of unique resources of Africa such as frankincense and myrrh.