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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Born in 1954, is the Chairman of the Board of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, a professor at the University of Jordan, and a former Minister of Education and Higher Education in Jordan. Toukan obtained a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (1971-1976) from the American University of Beirut. Master's degree in nuclear engineering and nuclear fusion from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Nuclear Engineering, Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering.
He returned from the United States and worked for the year (1982-1983) at Yarmouk University, as an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, then left for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the period (1985-1986) at the Petroleum University, then returned to the University of Jordan to work there for ten years (1987 1997) in the Department of Industrial Engineering, and a professor in 1997 who was promoted to where he became at the same time as his promotion decisively to Al-Balqa University.
Achievements and Awards
King Hussein Medal for Distinguished Giving (First Class) from His Majesty King Abdullah II.
Gandhi Medal for Peace from the Director General of UNESCO.
The French Legion of Honor (Commander Rank) from the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac.
German Medal of Honor (Commander Rank) from the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Köhler.
2012-2014 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Jordan
2011 (February 9-October 17) Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and Chairman of the Supreme Ministerial Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy Affairs
1983-1984 Aragon National Laboratory, Illinois, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge: Massachusetts Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Nuclear Engineering worked on an experiment on inelastically volatile neutrons from extremely cold water
1984-1986 University of Petroleum and Minerals, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Associate research scientist with the Energy Research Laboratory Development Group. Work was done to develop weak ion energy beam accelerators
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