Keynote Speakers

 

Prof. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She is also an affiliate faculty member in the University’s School of Information Sciences. Lisa served as the 2010-2011 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which launched the Value of Academic Libraries Initiative during her presidency. Lisa has presented and published widely on information literacy, teaching and learning, the value of libraries, library assessment, program evaluation, and organizational innovation. Lisa received her Master of Education in Educational Psychology and Master of Library and Information Science degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently a PhD student in Global Studies in Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

For More Details : https://lisahinchliffe.com/

 

Professor Shaher Momani

Dean of Academic Research and Quality Assurance, the 1st "Distinguished Professor" in the University of Jordan's history, ISI Highly Cited Researcher. A recipient of “The Order of King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein for Excellence of the Second Class” for his Academic Contributions in Scientific Research.

Prof. Shaher Momani received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Yarmouk University in 1984, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wales (UK) in 1991. Momani is a leading scientific researcher at The University of Jordan and he has been at the forefront of research in the field of Fractional Calculus in two decades and is classified as one of the top ten Scientists in the World in this field for the period 2009-present according to Thomson Reuters (Web of Knowledge).

Momani received many honors and awards and has been selected by Thomson Reuters in its prestigious list of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Also he obtained the highest Hirsch Index (h-index) and number of citations in Jordan according to Scopus database and Google Scholar.. Prof. Momani held several administrative and academic positions at JU, including Chairman of the Mathematics Department (2012-2014), Dean of the Faculty of Science (2014-2016), and Dean of Academic Research (2016-present). He was also the Chairman of the Mathematics Department at Mutah University (1994-1995).

Finally, Momani has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 by many scholars and institutions throughout the Arab world.