- Posted 07-Mar-2022
Three Distinguished Scientists to Join the ERC Scientific Council
The European Commission has appointed three eminent scientists as new members of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council. They are appointed for an initial period of four years.
The three new members are
- Professor Chryssa Kouveliotou, professor at the George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States
- Professor László Lovász, professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- Professor Giovanni Sartor, professor at the University of Bologna and at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
The new members have been selected by an independent Identification Committee, composed of six distinguished scientists appointed by the European Commission and chaired by Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin. The selection process involved consultations with the scientific community.
The new Scientific Council members will replace Professors Margaret Buckingham, Michael Kramer and Barbara Romanowicz, whose mandates expired.
The ERC Scientific Council, composed of 22 distinguished scientists and scholars representing the European scientific community, is the independent governing body of the ERC. Its main role is setting the ERC strategy and selecting the peer review evaluators. It is chaired by ERC President Maria Leptin.
About the ERC
The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four main grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants.
The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the Scientific Council. Since 1 November 2021, Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC. The overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than €16 billion, as part of the Horizon Europe programme, under the responsibility of the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel.
Source: European Research Council (https://bit.ly/3IJMIlr)