Karo Michaelian
Karo Michaelian was born in Wakefield, County Yorkshire, England in 1960, the second of four children, to a Dutch mother and an Armenian father. At the age of 6 the family moved to Canada, settling first near Niagra Falls, Ontario and finally in Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta. After a number of years of frog and gopher catching during the summers and cross country skiing during the harsh prairie winters, Karo coursed the program of Honors in Geophysics at the University of...See more
Karo Michaelian was born in Wakefield, County Yorkshire, England in 1960, the second of four children, to a Dutch mother and an Armenian father. At the age of 6 the family moved to Canada, settling first near Niagra Falls, Ontario and finally in Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta. After a number of years of frog and gopher catching during the summers and cross country skiing during the harsh prairie winters, Karo coursed the program of Honors in Geophysics at the University of Alberta, receiving a gold medal from the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta for graduating in 1981 with the highest marks in the province in his field of study. He followed with a doctorate degree in Experimental Nuclear Physics in 1987, with a thesis on the off-shell effects in the nucleon-nucleon interaction at the meson facility TRIUMF in Vancouver. He then did a 4 year postdoctoral stance at the Paul Scherrer Institute (formally Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland studying pion absorption in nuclei before obtaining a position as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1991. He has been in Mexico at the UNAM ever since, working in nuclear physics, scintillation physics, nanoparticle physics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, ecosystem dynamics and the origin of life. In 2002 Karo was awarded the "Jorge Lomnitz Adler prize" by the Mexican Academy of Sciences for his work in complex systems. Karo is a dedicated father of three children. He is a social activist, working to end the alienation of fathers from the lives of their children in western societies, co-founder of the Missionaries of Science program for fomenting science education in the schools of Mexico and founder of One Just World which aims to bring attention to grave injustices committed against individuals or states, and campaigns to end war mongering practiced by advanced nations against developing nations. See less
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