The European Commission has appointed six new members to the ERC Scientific Council’s governing body.
- 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
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Kateřina Králová, professor of contemporary history at the Institute of Ethnology (CAS) and Charles University in Prague, Czechia
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Susana Narotzky, professor of social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain
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Karin Roelofs, professor at the Donders Institute and the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University, Netherlands
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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 also 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 these changes in governance will take effect as of 1 January 2026.
See the ERC press release and biographies of the newly appointed members of the ERC Scientific Council.