Commission Decision of 19 December 2017 on the appointment of certain members of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council
Date: 2017-12-19
Institutions: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Subjects: appointment of members, research body, scientific research








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20.12.2017   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 439/9





COMMISSION DECISION
of 19 December 2017
on the appointment of certain members of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council
(2017/C 439/06)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Decision 2013/743/EU of 3 December 2013 establishing the specific programme implementing Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and repealing Decisions 2006/971/EC, 2006/972/EC, 2006/973/EC, 2006/974/EC and 2006/975/EC (1), and in particular Article 7(1) thereof,
Whereas:






(1)


By Commission Decision C(2013)8915 (2) the Commission established the European Research Council (ERC) for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020 as the means of implementing the actions under Part I ‘Excellent science’ which relate to the specific objective ‘The European Research Council (ERC)’, referred to in point (a) of Article 3(1) of Decision 2013/743/EU.










(2)


The ERC is composed of the independent Scientific Council and a dedicated implementation structure.










(3)


The members of the Scientific Council are appointed for a term of up to four years, renewable once.










(4)


The first term of office of three members of the Scientific Council will end on 31 December 2017. The standing committee for the identification of the future members of the Scientific Council made recommendations to the Commission for the renewal of the mandates of those three members of the Scientific Council. In order to ensure the continuity of the work of the Scientific Council, their mandate should therefore be renewed,




HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
Professor Martin STOKHOF is appointed member of the ERC Scientific Council for a second mandate ending 31 December 2019.
Professor Nils STENSETH is appointed member of the ERC Scientific Council for a second mandate ending 31 December 2019.
Professor Michel WIEVIORKA is appointed member of the ERC Scientific Council for a second mandate ending 31 December 2019.
Article 2
The members of the ERC Scientific Council shall be as set out in the Annex.
Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2018.

Done at Brussels, 19 December 2017.


For the Commission

Carlos MOEDAS

Member of the Commission





(1)  OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 965.

(2)  Commission Decision C(2013) 8915 of 12 December 2013 establishing the European Research Council (OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 23).


ANNEX
Members of the ERC Scientific Council






Name and Institute


End of term of office




Klaus BOCK, Danish National Research Foundation


31 December 2018




Paola BOVOLENTA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid


31 December 2020




Margaret BUCKINGHAM, Pasteur Institute, Paris


30 June 2019




Christopher CLARK, University of Cambridge


31 December 2019




Eveline CRONE, Leiden University


31 December 2020




Athene DONALD, University of Cambridge


31 December 2018




Andrzej JAJSZCZYK, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow


31 December 2020




Tomáš JUNGWIRTH, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic


31 December 2018




Eva KONDOROSI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences


31 December 2018




Michael KRAMER, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn


30 June 2019




Kurt MEHLHORN, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken


30 June 2020




Barbara ROMANOWICZ, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory


31 December 2019




Nils Christian STENSETH, University of Oslo


31 December 2019




Martin STOKHOF, University of Amsterdam


31 December 2019




Giulio SUPERTI-FURGA, Research Centre for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences


31 December 2020




Nektarios TAVERNARAKIS, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology — Hellas


30 June 2020




Janet THORNTON, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory


31 December 2018




Isabelle VERNOS, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona


30 June 2019




Reinhilde VEUGELERS, Catholic University of Leuven


31 December 2018




Michel WIEVIORKA, Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, Paris


31 December 2019




Fabio ZWIRNER, University of Padova


31 December 2018