Eight Filipino scientists and researchers were included in the March 2019 Asian Scientist Magazine list of 100 scientists who are outstanding in their fields.
The Filipino scientists are Drs. Rosalinda C. Torres and Marissa A. Paglicawan, both of the Industrial Technology Development Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (ITDI-DOST).
They are joined by Artemio Salazar of the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños for agriculture; Rody Sy of UP Manila for biomedical science; Ricardo Balog of the University of Santo Tomas and Elmer Dadios of De La Salle University for engineering; Gay Jane Perez of UP Diliman for environmental sciences and geology; and Charissa Marcaida Ferrera of UP Diliman for life sciences.
Dr. Juliana Chan, founder and editor in chief of Asian Scientist Magazine and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum herself, announced the names that qualified for inclusion in the 2019 Edition of the Asian Scientist 100. Asian Scientist listed its first 100 scientists in 2016.
Those named on the list were gathered from diverse disciplines that covered from materials science to molecular biology and particle physics.
The list named representatives from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
These include 17 in Life Sciences, 15 in Biomedical Science, 12 in Engineering, 12 in Materials Science, nine in Leadership, eight in Chemistry, eight in Environmental Sciences and Geology, seven in Agriculture, seven in Mathematics and five in Physics.
Torres, who is Scientist I and Chief of the Standards and Testing Division of ITDI-DOST, qualified under Chemistry for her research on the larvicidal ability of Philippine medicinal plants.
Paglicawan, also Scientist I and head of the Advanced Materials Section at the Materials Science Division of ITDI-DOST, qualified under Materials Science for her research on turning Manila hemp or abaca into an engineering material.
Japanese researchers dominate both disciplines. The “100 outstanding thinkers and innovators from Asia who are pushing the envelope with their research” are making Asia the striking center of radical research and development efforts, the magazine said.
The Asia Scientist Magazine reported that Asia currently supplies the world a quarter of its publications written by Asians now numbering a third of all scientific researchers worldwide.
It added that the 2010 US National Science Foundation Key Science and Engineering Indicators reported that these represented a shift in the world’s scientific research center of gravity to Asia. S&T Media Service