is a member of the scientific council of the UNESCO East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR), Kigali, Rwanda, since 2018. He was a founding member and the (inaugural) governing board member of the European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology (EuroScience); (inaugural) president of the Natural Hazards Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU); chair of the Committee on Sergei Soloviev Medal on Natural Hazards of the European Geosciences Union (EGU); chair of the steering committee of GeoUnions grouped under the International Science Council; and council member of the UNESCO International Geoscience Program. He served the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization [CTBTO], the Group on Earth Observations [GEO], the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction [UNDRR] and the United Nations International Year of Planet Earth [IYPE; 2007-2009] in various capacities. Alik Ismail-Zadeh has been editor or member of several editorial/advisory boards, including Surveys in Geophysics, Springer Nature; Special Publications of Geodesy and Geophysics series, Cambridge University Press; Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, American Geophysical Union Awards and honours Fellow, International Science Council (2022) Distinguished Lecturer of the College of Fellows, American Geophysical Union (2021-2023) Ambassador Award, American Geophysical Union (2019) Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2019) Fellow, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (2019) Member, Academia Europaea (2017) Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society (2013) Axford Distinguished Lecture Award, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (2012) International Award, AGU (2009) Fellowship Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001) Research Award to Earlier Career Scientist, Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1999) Prize to Young Scientist, Academia Europaea (1995) References 1961 births Living people Members of Academia Europaea 20th-century Azerbaijani mathematicians Scientists from Baku Baku State University alumni Moscow State University alumni Russian Academy of Sciences Geodynamics Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of the American Geophysical Union 21st-century Azerbaijani mathematicians