Three MAEs receive Honorary Distinguished Professorships#

A ceremony was held on 12th April 2025, at Al-Ahliyya Amman University (AAU), Jordan, to confer Honorary Distinguished Professorships upon three Members of Academia Europaea.

The recipients were:

Professor Ole Petersen CBE FRS MAE – Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Professor Peter Hegyi MAE – Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Professor Shahrokh Shariat MAE – Medical University of Vienna, Austria

The awards were presented during the First International Honorary Professors Symposium hosted by AAU, at which each of the three honourees also delivered an Inaugural Lecture. The ceremony was attended by senior members of the AAU leadership, including Professor Sari Hamdan, President of the University, and Professor Ahmad Hamdan, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry. The event celebrated not only the individual achievements of the honoured professors but also the strengthening of academic ties between Jordan and leading European institutions.

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