Adhering Bodies, National Societies and Regional Organizations

Last modified on May 8th 2009

Argentina

Adhering Body: Biophysical Argentinean Society
National Society: Biophysical Argentinean Society

Prof. Silvia del V. Alonso

Email: silviadelvalle@gmail.com

Armenia

Adhering Body: All Armenian Biophysical Society
Professor Tsovak M. Avakian, President of the Pan-Armenian Biophysics Armenia
375036 Yerevan, 36
Alikhanyan Brothers st. 2
Yerevan Physics Institute
Department of Biophysics, Armenia
FAX (+374 1) 512 512
email tsovak@mail.yerphi.am

National Society: All Armenian Biophysical Society
please see above

Australia

Adhering Body: Australian Academy of Science

Contact: Ms Jeanette Mill

Australian Academy of Sciences, International Secretary
GPO Box 783
Canberra ACT 2601
Phone +6126019411
Email: jeanette.mill@science.org.au

National Society: Australian Society for Biophysics

Contact: Adele Coster, Secretary-Treasurer

School of Mathematics
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Website: http://www.biophysics.org.au/
Email: treasurer@biophysics.org.au
Fax: 02 9385 7123

Austria

Adhering Body: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Prof Peter Laggner

Email: peter.laggner@oeaw.ac.at

Azerbaijan

Adhering Body: Azerbaijan Biophysical Association
Prof. Niftali Godjaev, President
Res. Lab. of Molecular Biophysics
Azerbaijan Baki-370073
Str. Zahid Xalilov-23
University of Baki Room -320
FAX (+99412) 98 14 87
email: niftaligodjajev@yahoo.com

National Society: Azerbaijan Biophysical Association
please see above

Belarus

Adhering Body: Belarus Society for Photobiology and Biophysics
Professor Igor D Volotovski, Chairman
Institute of Photobiology
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Academitcheskaja str. 27
Minsk 220072
Belarus
FAX (+375) 172 842359
email volot@biobel.bas-net.by

National society: Belarus Society for Photobiology and Biophysics
please see above

Belgium

Adhering Body: The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium

Céline Dessaucy Van Vaerenbergh

Executive Secretary

Kuleuven Afd.

Chem. en Biol. Dynamica

Celestijnenlaan 200D

3001 Heverlee,

Belgium

FAX: (+32) 16 327974

Email: celine.dessaucy@kvab.be

Brazil

Adhering Body: Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica
National Society: Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica

Marcelo M. Morales, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro- Brazil
Email: mmorales@biof.ufrj.br

Bulgaria

Adhering Body: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Dr A Boyanov, Executive Secretary
Institute of Biophysics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
G. Bonchev Str. bl.21
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
FAX (+359) 2 9712493
email boyanov@obzor.bio21.bas.bg

Canada

Adhering Body: National Research Council of Canada

Ian C.P. Smith, Ph.D., D.Sc., FRSC, OFS
Director General,
Institute for Biodiagnostics,
National Research Council Canada,
435 Ellice Avenue,
Winnipeg, Canada R3B 1Y6
Telephone: +1 204 983 7526
Fax: +1 204 984 6978
Email: ian.smith@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

National Society: Biophysical Society of Canada

Chile

Adhering Body: Biophysics Section, Chilean Biological Society
Professor Alan Neely
Dept of Physiology
Avda Gran Bretana 1111
Playa Ancha - Valparaiso, Chile
FAX (+56) 32 283320
email aneely@uv.cl or phyan@physiology.ttuhsc.edu
National Society: Biophysics Section, Chilean Biological Society
please see above

China, Beijing

Adhering Body: Biophysical Society of China
Professor Zihe Rao, President
Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China
FAX: (+86) 10 6277 3145
email: raozh@sun5.ibp.ac.cn; raozh@xtal.tsingua.edu.

National Society: Biophysical Society of China
Professor Xiyun Yan, Secretary General
15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China
FAX (+86) 10 64877837
email: yanxy@sun5.ibp.ac.cn

China, Taipei

Adhering Body: National Committee of Republic of China for IUPAB
Dr Tai-huang Huang, President
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Academia Sinica
128 Academia Road, Sec 2
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, The Republic of China
FAX (+886) 2 2788 7641
email bmthh@ibms.sinica.edu.tw

Dr Chi-fon Chang, Secretary General (for all correspondence)
The Genomic Research Center
128 Academia Road, Sec2
Nankang, Taipei,Taiwan 11529, The Republic of China
FAX (+886)2 2788 7641
email: cfchang@ibms.sinica.edu.tw

National Society: Biophysics Society of the Republic of China
please see above

Colombia

Adhering Body: Sociedad Colombiana de Física, Capítulo Biofísica
Professor Carlos A Rojas Avellaneda
Departamento de Física
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Carrera 7 N 43 - 83
Bogota D. C., Colombia
email carojas@javeriana.edu.co

National Society: Sociedad Colombiana de Física, Capítulo Biofísica
please see above

Croatia

Adhering Body: Croatian Biophysical Society
Dr Vesna Svetlicic, President
Center for Marine and Environmental Research
Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Bijenicka 54
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
FAX (+385) 1 468 0242
email svetlicic@rudjer.irb.hr

National Society: Croatian Biophysical Society
please see above

Czech Republic

Adhering Body: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
RNDr Stanislav Kozubek, Chairman
Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences
Kralovopolska 135, 612 65 Brno
Czech Republic
FAX (+42) 541 240 498
email kozubek@ibp.cz

National Society: Biophysics Section, Czechoslovak Biological Society
Dr Jana Slotova, Secretary
Institute of Biophysics
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Kralovopolska 135, 612 65 Brno
Czech Republic
FAX (+42) 5 4121 1293
email slotova@ibp.cz

Denmark

Adhering Body: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Mrs Pia Gruner
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
H C Andersens Boulevard 35
DK 1553 Copenhagen V
Denmark
FAX (+45) 33910736
email: pbg@royalacademy.dk

National Society: National Committee of Biophysics
Professor dr Ole G Mouritsen, Chairman
MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark
FAX +45 6615 4048
email ogm@memphys.sdu.dk

Egypt

Adhering Body: Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
Professor Mohsen M. Shoukry, Supervisor of Scientific & Cultural Relations
101 Kasr El Einy Street
Cairo, Egypt
FAX 202 5941270
email not yet available

National Society: Egyptian National Committee of Biophysics
Professor M I El Gohary, Chairman
Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
101 Kasr El Einy Street
Cairo, Egypt
FAX (+20) 2 3562820
email: elgoharybio@yahoo.com

Finland

Adhering Body: Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica

Fenniae Katri Niemi, Secretary General
Biomedicum Helsinki Protein Chemistry Unit
P.O. Box 63
00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
FAX: +358 9 19125206
email Katri.Niemi@helsinki.fi

Markus Linder, Treasurer
VTT Biotechnology
P.O. Box 1500
02044 VTT, Finland
email: markus.linder@vtt.fi

National Society: Societas Biochemica, biophysica et microbiologica Fenniae
please see above

France

Adhering Body: Académie des Sciences, Comité National de Biophysique
Jean-Francois Gibrat, Secrétaire
INRA, Domaine de Vilvert
Unite Mathématique, Informatique et Génome
78352 Jouy-en-Josas cedex
FAX (+33) 1 34 65 29 01
email: gibrat@jouy.inra.fr

National Society: Société Française de Biophysique
Constantin Craescu, Secrétaire
Institut Curie Bat. 110-112.
Université Paris Sud 91405 Orsay cedex

FAX (+33)1 69 07 53 27.
email Gil.Craescu@curie.u-psud.fr

Germany

Adhering Body: National Society: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Biophysik
Prof. Dr. Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus, President
Abteilung für Biophysik
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
89081 Ulm
Tel.: 0731 - 50 23050
Fax: 0731 - 50 23059
email: uli@uiuc.edu

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Alexiev, Secretary General
Fachbereich Physik
Institut für Experimentalphysik
Freie Universität Berlin
Arnimallee 14
14195 Berlin
FAX: (+49) 30 838 56299
email: alexiev@physik.fu-berlin.de

Greece

Adhering Body: Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
National Society: Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dr G. Panayotou11
Soufliou Street
11257
Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210-6503565

Fax: +30 210-6511767

Email: panayotou@fleming.gr

Hong Kong

Adhering Body: Biophysical Society of Hong Kong
Professor D C Chang
Department of Biology
H K University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong
FAX (+852) 2358-1559
email bochang@usthk.ust.hk

National Society: Biophysical Society of Hong Kong
please see above

Hungary

Adhering Body: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
National Society: Hungarian Biophysical Society
Professor Pál Ormos, President
Institute of Biophysics
Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 521
Szeged, Hungary, H-6701
FAX (+36) 62 433 133
email: pali@nucleus.szbk.u-szeged.hu

India

Adhering Body: Indian National Science Academy
Dr Alok Moitra, Assistant Executive Secretary-ICSU
Indian National Science Academy
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110 002
India
FAX (+91) 11 3235648
email insa@delnet.ren.nic.in

National Committee for IUPAB and IUCr

Professor M. Vijayan, FNA
Professor of Molecular Biophysics Unit
& Associate Director
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560 012
India
FAX: (+91) 80 360 0683
email: mv@mbu.iisc.ernet.in

Israel

Adhering Body: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Prof. Elisha Haas

Email: haas@mail.biu.ac.il

Italy

Adhering Body: CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Signora Cecilia Tribuzio
Dipartimento per le Attivita’ Internazionali
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
P.le Aldo Moro 7
00185 Roma, Italy
FAX (+39) 6 446 1954
email cecilia.tribuzio@cnr.it

National Society: Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata
National Society: Societa Italiana di Biofisica (Italian Society of Biophysics)
Prof Damiano Gustavo Mita
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale
Seconda Università di Napoli
Via Costantinopoli 16
80 138 Napoli, Italy
FAX (+39) 81-5665822
email mita@unina2.it

Japan

Adhering Body: National Committee of Biophysics, Science Council of Japan

Prof. Nobuhiro Go

Email: info@scj.go.jp

National Society: The Biophysical Society of Japan

Korea

Adhering Body: Korean Biophysical Society
Professor Young Kee Kang, President
Department of Chemistry
Chunbuk National University
Cheongju, Chungbuk 361-763
Korea
FAX: (+82) 43 273 83 28
email: ykkang@chungbuk.ac.kr
National Society: Korean Biophysical Society
Dr.Julian Lee, Secretary General
Department of Bioinformatics and Life Science
Soongsil University
1-1 Sangdo5 - dong, Dongjak-gu
Seoul 156-743
Korea
FAX: (+082) 2812 5762
email jul@ssu.ac.kr

The Netherlands

Adhering Body: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Society: The Netherland Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Technology (Vereniging voor Biofysica en Biomedische Technologie)

Dr. R des Bouvrie

Email: Roy.des.Bouvrie@bureau.knaw.nl

New Zealand

Adhering Body: The Royal Society of New Zealand

P.O. Box 598, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

Dr.Jez Weston

jez.weston@royalsociety.org.nz

Norway

Adhering Body: Norwegian Norwegian Biophysical Society

Dr. Eirik Malinen
Department of Medical Physics,
Division of Cancer Medicine and Radiotherapy
Rikshospitalet University Hospital
Montebello,
NO-0310 Oslo
Norway.
e-mail: eirik.malinen@fys.uio.no
phone: +47 22781112
fax: +47 22781102

Poland

Adhering Body: Polish Academy of Sciences
Professor Grzegorz Bartosz, President, Committee of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Head, Department of Molecular Biophysics
University of Lodz
Banacha 12/16
90-237 Lodz, Poland
FAX (+48) 42 6354473
email: gbartosz@biol.uni.lodz.pl

National Society: Polish Biophysical Society
Professor Krystyna Michalak
Head, Department of Biophysics
Medical University of Wroclaw
ul. Chalubinskiego 10
50-368 Wroclaw
FAX (+48) 717840088
email: michalak@biofiz.am.wroc.pl

Portugal

Adhering Body: Sociedade Portuguesa de Biofisica
Chair
Dr. Manuela M. Pereira
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. da República - EAN,
2780-157 Oeiras
PORTUGAL
email: mpereira@itqb.unl.pt

Romania

Adhering Body: Romanian Society for Pure and Applied Biophysics
Dr Eugenia Kovacs, Secretary General
Biophysics Research Department
“Carol Davila” Medical University
P.O Box 35-43, 76200 Bucharest 35, Romania
FAX (+40) 21 312 59 55
email: ekovacs@univermed-cdgm.ro

Russia

Adhering Body: Russian Academy of Science
Professor A B Rubin, Chairman, National Committee for Biophysics
Department of Biophysics
Faculty of Biology
Moscow State University
Moscow 119899, Russia
FAX (+7) 095 939 1115
email: rubin@mars.biophys.msu.ru

Saudi Arabia

Adhering Body: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST)
National Society: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST)

Mr Fahad S. Huraib

Email: int_coop@kacst.edu.sa

Serbia

Adhering Body: Biophysical Society of Serbia
Dr Miroslav Zivic, Secretary
email: mzivic@iofh.bg.ac.yu

National Society: Biophysical Society of Serbia
please see above

Slovak Republic

Adhering Body: Slovak Committee for IUPAB
Dr Ivan Zahradnik, Chairman
Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Vlarska 5, 83334 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
FAX (+421) 7 373 666

Slovenia

Adhering Body: Slovenian Biophysical Society
Dr Zoran Arsov, Secretary
“Jozef Stefan” Institute
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
FAX (+386) 1 477 3191
email: zoran.arsov@ijs.si

National Society: Slovenian Biophysical Society
please see above

Spain

Adhering Body: Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia
Prof. Severino Falcón Morales, Treasurer

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Subdirección General de Programas y Organismos Internacionales
C/ Albacete 5, Segunda Planta Este
28027 Madrid, Spain
email: severino.falcon@mec.es

National Society: Sociedad de Biofísica de España

Sweden

Adhering Body: The Swedish National Committee for Pure and Applied Biophysics
Professor Lennart Nilsson, chairman
Karolinska Institutet,
Department of Biosciences at NOVUM
SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden
FAX (+46) 8 608 9290
email: Lennart.Nilsson@biosci.ki.se

National Society: Swedish Biophysical Society
Dr. Mikael Akke, chairman
Department of Biophysical Chemistry
Lund University
P.O. Box 124
SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
FAX (+46) 46 2224543
email Mikael.Akke@bpc.lu.se

Switzerland

Adhering Body: IUPAB Committee of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
Professeur Tilman Schirmer, President
Abteilung Strukturbiologie
Biozentrum
University of Basel
Klingelbergstr. 70
CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
FAX (+41) 61 267 2109
email tilman.schirmer@unibas.ch

Turkey

Adhering Body: Turkish Biophysical Society
Professor M. Salih Celik, President
Department of Biophysics
Medical School of Dicle University
21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey
email mscelik@dicle.edu.tr

National Society: Turkish Biophysical Society
please see above

Ukraine

Adhering Body: Ukrainian Biophysical Society (UBPS)
Professor Michael F Shuba, President
Bogolometz Institute of Physiology
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Bololometz Str., 252024 Kiev, Ukraine
FAX (+380) 44 293 34 31
email onmf@serv.biph.kiev.ua

National Society: Ukrainian Biophysical Society
please see above

United Kingdom

Adhering Body: British Biophysical Society

Professor John M. Seddon,
Head, Theoretical and Experimental Physical Chemistry,
Chemistry Department,
Imperial College London,
South Kensington Campus,
London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Tel: +44(0)20-7594-5797
Fax: +44(0)20-7594-5801

National Society: British Biophysical Society
please see above

United States of America

Adhering Body: National Academy of Sciences
Katherine Bowman, Ph. D.
Program Officer, U.S. National Committee to IUPAB
Board on International Scientific Organizations
The National Academies
Keck Building, Room 505
500 5th Street, N. W.
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (+1) 202-334-2638
FAX (+1) 202-334-2231
email kbowman@nas.edu

National Society and Adhering Body: Biophysical Society
Rosalba Kampman, Executive Director
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
FAX (+1) 310-530-7133
email rkampman@biophysics.org

Uruguay

Adhering Body: Seccional Biofisica de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Biologia
Professors Elia Nunes and Gustavo Brum
Dpto. Biofisica, Facultad de Medicina
CP11 800, Montevideo, Uruguay
FAX (+598) 2 924 8784
email enunes@fmed.edu.uy,gbrum@fmed.edu.uy

Venezuela

Adhering Body: Sociedad de Biofisicos Venezolanos
Professor Guillermo Whittembury
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC)
P O Box 21827
Caracas 1020.A, Venezuela
FAX (+58) 212 504 1093
email gwhitt@ivic.ve

Vietnam

Technology
Institute of Biotechnology
Nghia-Do, Duong Hoang Quoc Viet
Hanoi, Vietnam

Regional Organizations

European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA)
Dr. M�tyus L�szl�, Secretary
Dept. of Biophysics and Cell Biology
University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center
H-4012 Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98., Hungary
FAX (+36) 52-412-623
email lmatyus@jaguar.dote.hu

Sociedad de Biof�sicos Latinoamericanos (SOBLA)
Dr Esperanza Recio-Pinto, Secretary
Dept of Anesthesiology, Hosp. Spec. Surg.
Cornell University
535 E 70th St. New York, NY 10021, U.S.A
FAX (+1) 212 517-4481
email reciope@hss.edu