The six new ERC Scientific Council members are:
Michel Campillo, professor emeritus of geophysics at the University of Grenoble, France
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize laureate; founder, scientific and managing director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, Germany
Kateřina Králová, professor of contemporary history at the Institute of Ethnology (CAS) and Charles University in Prague, Czechia
Susana Narotzky, professor of social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain
Karin Roelofs, professor at the Donders Institute and the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University, Netherlands
Eleftheria Zeggini, director of the Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
The new members of the Scientific Council are appointed for an initial term of four years.
The Scientific Council has elected three Vice Presidents from amongst its members: Liselotte Højgaard, who will be responsible for life sciences, Torsten Persson for the domain charge of social sciences and humanities, and Nicola Spaldin, who will be in charge of physical sciences and engineering. All active researchers, they will maintain their current activities when they take office.
President of the European Research Council Maria Leptin, said:
‘Much looking forward to welcoming six new members, all distinguished in their various fields. Warm thanks go to our outgoing members for their dedication to the ERC over the past years. The independent identification committee has again ensured the continuity and quality of the ERC governing body. I particularly want to acknowledge the committed work of the three outgoing Vice Presidents, who will be replaced by three excellent colleagues from our Scientific Council’.
The new Scientific Council member will replace current members whose second term has ended or is about to expire: Geneviève Almouzni, Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerd Gigerenzer, Eystein Jansen, Jesper Svejstrup and Milena Žic Fuchs. The Vice Presidents elect will replace the current three Vice Presidents, who have all stayed for the maximum number of years. In addition, the Commission has renewed the term of Giovanni Sartor with two years (member since 2022).
The new members have been selected by an independent standing Identification Committee, composed of six distinguished scientists and scholars, appointed by the Commission. The scientific community was consulted in this process. The mandate of the Identification Committee is twofold: to identify new members and to maintain a pool of candidates for future membership.
