ERC appoints new Scientific Council members
The European Research Council have announced the appointment of three new members to its Scientific Council.
The first new member is Professor Margaret Buckingham from the Pasteur Institute, as well as a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. Also joining the Council is Professor Michael Kramer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany, and Professor Silvio Micali, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
The appointments come after the terms of office of three Scientific Council members, namely Professors Daniel Dolev, Reinhard Grenzel and Anna Tramontano, ended. The mandate of the newly appointed members is for four years.
In addition the mandate of Professor Isabelle Vernos, a member of the ERC Scientific Council since 2011 and a research professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Spain, was renewed; she will serve for another four years.
The ERC Scientific Council is composed of 22 distinguished scientists and scholars representing the European scientific community; it is the ERC’s independent governing body and sets the organisation’s strategy. It also selects the peer review evaluators and its members are proposed by an independent Identification Committee appointed by the European Commission.
