Driss Ben-SariFAASFTWAS (Arabic: إدريس بن صاري, born 1942) is a Moroccan professor of Geophysics at the Department of Civil Engineering, Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Ben-Sari then returned to Morocco, and he has been a professor of Geophysics at the Department of Civil Engineering, Mohammadia School of Engineering, Mohammed V University, Rabat, since 1978.[5][6][7]
Ben-Sari served as Coordinator of the International Centre of Sciences and High Technology, and a Director of the Moroccan Institute of Astronomy, the National alert network for earthquakes, and the National Centre for Research and Planning of Science.[8][9] He is member of the Society for Technical Communication, International Council for Science, and Independent World Commission on the Ocean.[2][10][11]
Ben-Sari published his memoirs: Vivid memories (French: Mémoires Vives), testimonies and experiences of a lifetime.[3]
Awards and honours
Ben-Sari was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS) in 1987,[8][12] and Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS) in 1988.[4] Ben-Sari received the Scientific Grand Prize of Morocco.