The Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC) announced that professors Carl-Henrik Heldin and Pavel Exner have been elected as new ERC Vice Presidents.
Their term of office runs until the end of the seventh Framework Programme for Research (December 2013). Both are founding members of the ERC Scientific Council. Pavel Exner, a Czech national, is the scientific director and a professor at the Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Prague. Carl-Henrik Heldin, a Swedish national, is the Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala, and a professor at Uppsala University.
The two are succeeding Helga Nowotny, who became ERC President in March 2010,And Daniel Estève, whose term as Vice President expired. Nowotny said, “The Scientific Council has elected two of its members whose rich experience and energetic dedication augur well for the future evolution of the ERC. This comes at a time when the Scientific Council has partially renewed its membership and I am glad to have such a great team to work with.
The Scientific Council is the body responsible for setting the scientific strategy of the ERC.
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