Board Elections and New Members in 2019
Informatics Europe is looking back to an eventful 2019 and is thrilled to welcome not only seven new Board members to our team, but also thirteen new members from 10 different countries in our community!
At the 2019 Annual General Assembly held in Rome on October 29, seven Board members were re-elected for the term 2020-2021:
- Enrico Nardelli (University of Roma "Tor Vergata") as President
- Gregor Engels (Paderborn University) as Treasurer
- Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano) as Vice-President
- Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano) as Vice-President
- Kim Mens (UCLouvain), Pekka Orponen (Aalto University) and Jaak Vilo (University of Tar-tu) as Board members-at-large.
In addition, we are glad to announce the election of the following new Board members-at-large for the term 2020-2021:
- Dick Bulterman (CWI and VU Amsterdam)
- Harald Gall (University of Zurich)
- Ismael García-Varea (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
- Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
- Letizia Jaccheri (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
- Jean-Marc Jézéquel (IRISA/University of Rennes)
- Viorel Negru (West University of Timisoara).
Furthermore, thirteen new members joined us during the past year and let Informatics Europe grow to a total of 145 institutions from 32 European countries:
- Sociedad Científica Informática de España (SCIE)
- University of Basel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Innopolis University, Faculty of Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETSI Informaticos
- Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
- University of Reading, Department of Computer Science
- Technical University of Sofia, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
- University of Lausanne (Federated Member)
- Department of Computational Biology
- Department of Information Systems
- Department of Language and Information Sciences
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Computer Science
- University of Mostar, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Computing and Electrical Engineering
- University of Perugia, KITLab - Knowledge Information Technology Laboratory
Check out our current member list here.
About Informatics Europe
Informatics Europe represents the academic and research community in Informatics (or Computer Science) in Europe. Bringing together university departments and research laboratories, it creates a strong voice to safeguard and shape quality research and education in Informatics. With nearly 145 member institutions across 33 countries, Informatics Europe promotes common positions and acts on common priorities.
Visit www.informatics-europe.org to learn more.