Eva Zažímalová and Eric Lambin replace Paul Nurse and Carina Keskitalo in high-level group
The European Commission has appointed two new members to its seven-person Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, which provides scientific advice to the EU institution on any subject matter on request, as well as own-initiative advice and recommendations on science advice itself.
The new appointees are Eva Zažímalová (pictured), a plant physiologist and president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Eric Lambin, a geographer at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and Stanford University in the United States. They were appointed to three-year terms, which may be extended by a further two years.