As of the closing date on 5 November 2024, 140 Photonics21 members participated in the two-week online election for the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders - reflecting an impressive turnout of 79.54% among registered voters.
We are pleased to announce that the following 20 member organisations and representatives have been elected to the Board of Stakeholders, listed alphabetically by affiliation:
- Panagiotis Georgiadis, Alpes Lasers SA
- Laurent Fulbert, CEA-Leti
- Silvia Maria Pietralunga, CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- Arnaud Mussot, CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Elizabeth Illy, Cobolt AB
- Oliver Haupt, Coherent LaserSystems GmbH & Co.KG
- Petr Přikryl, Czech optical cluster
- Pierre-Yves Fonjallaz, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Dominic Brady, Fibercore Ltd.
- Moritz Seyfried, ficonTEC Service GmbH
- David Bruneel, LASEA S.A.
- Paraskevas Bakopoulos, NVIDIA - Mellanox Technologies Ltd
- Barbara Previtali, Politecnico di Milano
- Paolo Calefati, Prima Additive Srl
- Maria Nilsson Tengelin, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
- Staffan Tjörnhammar, SLF Svenska Laserfabriken AB
- Luc Augustin, SMART Photonics B.V.
- Wenko Süptitz, SPECTARIS – German Company Association for Optics, Photonics, Analytical and Medical Technologies e.V.
- Paul Townsend, Tyndall National Institute
- Guillermo Carpintero-del-Barrio, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The Photonics21 Secretariat warmly welcomes all newly elected members and representatives to the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders!
The complete list of Board of Stakeholders members is available in our dedicated Board of Stakeholders section.
This article was first published on 6 November by Photonics21.
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