November 20th 2020 is the application deadline to apply for the position of the next President of the European Research Council (ERC)
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has appointed seven experts as members of the Search Committee for the next President of the ERC. The independent Search Committee will make recommendations to the Commission on the best candidates for this prestigious post on the basis of a consultation of the scientific community and an open call for applications.
Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said:
“I am very pleased that Professor Helga Nowotny has accepted to chair the Search Committee for the next European Research Council President. I have faith that this Committee of high-level scientists will provide us with a well-considered shortlist of the very best candidates for this prominent role”.
The Search Committee consists of seven highly respected personalities in European research:
Prof. Helga NOWOTNY (Chair), Former President of the European Research Council
Prof. Pearl DYKSTRA, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Prof. Tamás FREUND, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Jiří FRIML, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Prof. Serge HAROCHE, Collège de France
Prof. Viola VOGEL, ETH Zürich
Prof. Fabio ZWIRNER, University of Padua, Member of the ERC Scientific Council
The Commission is now asking organisations and bodies’ representatives of the scientific and research community to nominate outstanding candidates for the ERC President through a consultation letter.
The Commission is hereby also inviting individual applications for the position of ERC President.
The ERC President should be an internationally renowned and respected scientist or scholar and is expected to be a prominent advocate of frontier research and an ambassador of European science within and beyond Europe.
The new ERC President is expected to be appointed by the end of the first quarter of 2021. The term of office is limited to four years, renewable once. No age limit applies. Applicants must be nationals of an EU Member State. The deadline for both applications and nominations is 20 November 2020.
For more information, including on how to apply, please see the Statement on the search process.