26 May 2025
EC renews Group of Chief Scientific Advisors
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation has announced the renewal of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, effective since 16 May 2025, calling this a significant milestone for the Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission (SAM).
The new members of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors were selected for their outstanding expertise across a wide range of scientific fields, aiming to deliver high-quality, timely and independent scientific advice to the College of European Commissioners on any specific policy issue, including on those that the European Parliament and the Council consider to be of major importance.
The new members of the Group are the following:
- Dimitra Simeonidou (Professor of High-Performance Networks and Director of the Smart Internet Lab, University of Bristol, UK),
- Rémy Slama (Researcher in environmental health, senior investigator at Inserm (national institute of health and medical research), senior investigator at ENS-PSL (Ecole normale supérieure), Professor at IBENS, Paris),
- Mangala Srinivas (Professor of Cell Biology & Immunology, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands),
- Adam Izdebski (Independent Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany ),
- Martin Kahanec, (Professor at Central European University (Vienna), University of Economics, Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia) and
- Rafał Łukasik (Director of Research & Innovation Department at Łukasiewicz Centre, The Łukasiewicz Research Network Presidential Plenipotentiary for International Relations in Warsaw, Poland).
The six new members join Naomi Ellemers, (Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University), who continues her mandate), to complete the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.
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