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New ECerS officers for the 2023-2025 period
During the Council meeting that was held in Lyon, France, on 2nd July 2023, the ECerS officers were renewed or changed.
The 2023-2025 ECerS President is now Thomas Graule, from EMPA, Switzerland!
Thomas Graule succeeds to Francis Cambier, who was President of ECerS from 2021 to 2023 and is, as ECerS Past-President, the new Chair of the JECS Trust, also for the 2023-2025 period.
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Photo : Sébastien Ferraro - ECerS 2023.
Photo taken during the Lyon 2023 ECerS Conference Gala Dinner: on the left: Thomas Graule, new ECerS President, and on the rigtht, Francis Cambier, ECerS Past President and new Chair of the JECS Trust.
The 2025-2027 President of ECerS was also elected: it will be Richard Todd, from the University of Oxford, who will serve as President Elect until 2025.
New PEC Members were also appointed:
- Jon Binner from the University of Birmingham, UK - who was ECerS President from 2019 to 2021 and Chair of the JECS Trust from 2021 to 2023.
- Andraz Kocjan from Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia - who was YC&T leader from 2019 to 2023.
Erkka Frankberg from Tampere University, Finland, who was a former YCN committee member, was then appointed as new YC&T leader.
Check the ECerS Officers here
Check the JECS Trust board members here
Check the Working Group leaders here
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