ERC Scientific Council adds two new members
Professor Sir Christopher Clark and Professor Barbara Romanowicz have been appointed to the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).
They were selected by the European Commission on the basis of a search process carried out by an independent identification committee and will serve a four-year mandate.
Sir Christopher is currently Regius professor of history at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Iron Kingdom (2006), a history of Prussia, and The Sleepwalkers (2012), on the origins of the First World War, among other titles, and is internationally regarded as a leading historian of modern Germany.
Romanowicz serves as chair of physics of the Earth’s interior at Collège de France, Paris, and professor of geophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, US. Between 1982 and 1990, while a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), she developed GEOSCOPE, a then state-of-the-art global network of digital seismic stations for the study of earthquakes and the structure of the Earth’s interior. Following this, in 1991 she became director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL), a position she held until 2011. During this time, she helped to establish a joint real-time earthquake notification system for northern California between the BSL and the US Geological Survey.
The ERC Scientific Council comprises 22 distinguished scientists and scholars representing the European scientific community and is the governing body of the ERC. Its main role is setting the ERC strategy and selecting the peer review evaluators.
The identification committee is currently working on the identification of another two new members.
