EC appoints two top scientists to European Research Council's governing body
Xinhua, February 5, 2016 Adjust font size:
The European Commission announced Friday that it appointed two accomplished scientists to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, for a four-year term of office.
The two new members are Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, and Barbara Romanowicz, Professor and Chair in Physics of the Earth's interior at the College de France, and also Professor of Geophysics at the UC Berkeley, the United States.
These new members have been selected by an independent identification committee, composed of six distinguished scientists appointed by the European Commission, said a press release.
The ERC Scientific Council, composed of 22 distinguished scientists and scholars representing the European scientific community, is the governing body of the European Research Council.
Its main role is setting the ERC strategy and selecting the peer review evaluators. Endit