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Administrative Board of the MCFA - 2010
The Board was elected during the Extraordinary General Meeting in Brussels (Belgium), January 2010.
Chair
Member of the EC
External Advisory Group
for FP7 People Programme
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Guggi Kofod (guggi.kofod.mcfa@gmail.com)
is currently a Post Doc. Group leader at the University of Potsdam in Germany, paid for with a five year personal grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research. His group is working on new materials for dielectric elastomer actuators, which might in the future be used "artificial muscles". He was born in Glostrup, Denmark, and lived his first four years in Bruxelles, when his mother was working as a secretary in the EEC. After receiving his Doctorate from the Danish Technical University, Denmark, he worked for one year at the Danish Institute for Fundamental Metrology, then for two years as Assistant Professor at Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines, teaching undergraduate students in both the physics and chemistry departments. 2006-2007 he was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Potsdam.
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Vice Chair
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Maria Antonietta Buccheri (ma.buccheri@gmail.com)
Maria Antonietta Buccheri has just completed her first post-doc in human molecular genetics at the Azienda Universitaria Ospedaliera “Vittorio Emanuele” in Catania and she is now collaborating with the Department of Biologia Animale of the Università degli Studi di Catania. She graduated in Biology at the Università degli Studi di Catania in 2001 with a thesis in molecular genetics. After graduation, she moved to France and worked at Institut Cochin in Paris. She then moved back to Italy and started a PhD in November 2003. In 2004 she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship (FP6-EST) which she spent at CNRS in Villejuif (Paris-France). She obtained her PhD in molecular pharmacology at the Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy) in 2007. Her research interests are focused on the mechanisms of regulation of gene expression. Since 2005, she has been actively involved in the Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA).
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Secretary General
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Esperança Manuel (esperanca.manuel.mcfa@gmail.com)
graduated in chemistry (spectroscopic methods) from "Université Pierre et Marie Curie," with a thesis in NMR methodology for the study of biomolecular assemblies. Thanks to a one year ESR Marie Curie fellowship (2005-2006) she participated to the study of the magnetocaloric effect in molecule-based magnets at the "Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia", in Italy. Afterwards she has been appointed in Germany as a team member of a Marie Curie Exellence grant team at the "Universität Duisburg-Essen" (2006-2009), to be involved in the study of nanoparticle-based diluted magnetic semiconductors as a PhD work. Unfortunately she had to quit her position.
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Vice Secretary General
Project Coordinator
for the new website
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Yegor Domanov (yegor.domanov@gmail.com)
is currently doing his second post-doctoral project at the Institut Curie in Paris. He is studying the diffusion of lipids and proteins in highly curved biological membranes to understand how the membrane shape affects dynamical processes in the cells, in particular, how it modulates the transmission of the information in neuronal synapses. Born in Ukraine, Yegor studied biophysics and got his PhD at Kharkiv University. In 2005-2008 he woked in Finland, where he got a Marie Curie fellowship at the Medical Faculty of the University of Helsinki. His work there was focused on interactions of lipid membranes with peptides or short proteins in view of their role in the mechanisms of innate immunity (against bacteria, fungi, viruses) and in some pathologies related to amyloid deposition (diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease etc.).
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Treasurer
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Eric Buchlin (eric.buchlin@mariecurie.org)
graduated in Physics from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a PhD from Université Paris Sud and Università di Firenze. During one more year in Florence, he was a research assistant funded by a Research and Training Network (FP5) and became a member of MCFA. After a stay at Imperial College, London, and a CNES research fellowship, he is now a CNRS researcher at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France. He is working on turbulence in the solar corona and the solar wind.
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Vice Treasurer
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Natalia Balcázar (natalia.balcazar@gmail.com)
is since its foundation director of ENVIROpro – European Environmental Project Management, Germany (www.enviro-pro.eu). She studied Geological Sciences at the Complutense University in Madrid and made in 1992 her doctoral thesis in the framework of an ECSC project. After her PhD, she went in 1994 to Germany with a post-doc DAAD fellowship and stay at the same research institute (www.fehs.de) further with a Marie Curie individual fellowship. Her main work areas are the improvement of the use of resources and the energy efficiency for SMEs and municipalities. Since her arrival to Germany she has been working also at the women network Connecta – Das Frauennetzwerk e.V. in the area of Gender Mainstreaming. After her Marie Curie Fellowship she jointed as active member the Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA). 2005/2006 she was member of the MCFA Advisory Board. In 2007/2008 she was Treasurer and since 2009 still supporting Eric as Vice-Treasurer.
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Board member
Editor for the
Letter to Members
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Anett Kiss (anett.z.kiss@plantphys.umu.se)
Anett Kiss graduated in biology at the University of Szeged, Hungary in 2003. She completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Sheffield, UK as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the INTRO2 (Interdisciplinary Network for Training and Research on Photosystem 2) Research Training Network. Currently she is the holder of a European Reintegration Grant and carries out post-doctoral research at the Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden. Her research area is photosynthesis with special focus on the regulation of light harvesting.
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Board member
Science Career Editor
in RESB for MCFA
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Nusrat J.M. Sanghamitra (nusrat.sanghamitra@gmail.com)
is an Indian national. From February 2008, she have joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the Marie Curie Research Training Network in the Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands. She is a bioinorganic chemist and now during this Marie Curie training fellowship she have switched to biophysics. Nusrat studies the electron transfer and tunnelling properties of molecularly wired metalloproteins to the surface.
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Board Member
National Groups Coordinator
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Fernando Pérez-Cruz (fernando.mcfa@gmail.com)
Fernando Pérez-Cruz (IEEE Senior Member) was born in Sevilla, Spain, in 1973. He received a PhD. in Telecommunication Engineering in 2000 from the Technical University of Madrid and an MSc/BSc in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Sevilla in 1996. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Signal Theory and Communication at University Carlos III in Madrid. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University under the sponsorship of an outgoing Marie Curie Fellowship. He has held positions at the Gatsby Unit (London), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen), BioWulf Technologies (New York) and the Technical University of Madrid and Alcala University (Madrid). His current research interest lies in machine learning algorithmic and theoretical developments and its application to signal processing and information theory. He has authored over 70 contributions to international journals and conferences. A detailed CV and list of publications can be accessed at www.tsc.uc3m.es/~fernando/.
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Board member
"Women in Science" Policy
Group Coordinator
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Gianna Avellis (g.avellis@tno.it)
is an Italian citizen and former EIT Fellow of Marie Curie. She is graduated in Computing, and spent 20 years in industrial research and 4 years in academic research. Gianna is currently working at Innova Puglia SpA, the in-house company of Apulia Region to promote Technology Transfer and Innovation to PAs. She is leading researcher in Mobile Learning and has large experience as project manager of European R&D projects in Software Engineering, Mobile Telecommunication, Multimedia and Education. She serves the EU Commission and other regional agencies of research as Independent expert evaluator.She was awarded a HCM (Human Capital and Mobility) fellowship of 18 months at Imperial College, London, UK, as experienced researcher, in Software Engineering. Gianna is currently interested to investigate how scientific mobility can enhance the career of women in SET, and founded to this purpose mobile Women in Science and Technology (m-WiSET) Working Group in MCFA, and ITWIIN (Italian Women Innovators and Investors Network) www.itwiin.it , the Italian branch of the European EUWIIN.
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Board member
Science Policy Officer
Career/Mobility Advisor
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Ninoslav Marina (nmarina.mcfa@gmail.com)
Dr. Ninoslav Marina received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree from the "Sv.Kiril i Metodij" University, Skopje, Macedonia, in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), in January 2004. Part of his thesis was completed at Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki. After the graduation, he worked as a researcher at the Signal Processing Institute at EPFL, and later as a Head of Research and Development at Sowoon Technologies, Lausanne, where he was responsible for several national and European R&D projects. In 2007 he won the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Reserachers to spend one year as Visiting Scholar at University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. During the period 2008 - 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UNIK University Graduate Center at University of Oslo, where he worked on projects funded by the Research Council of Norway. In 2008, Dr. Marina won the International Outgoing Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission and is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University.
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Board member
Science Policy Officer
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Eric Zimmerman (zimmee@idc.ac.il)
Appointed Academic Secretary and Director of Research at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), in Israel, in 2006, Eric provides leadership and service to faculty, staff, and students - members of the IDC scholarly community, working with the Provost and President in implementing policy and decisions of the IDC academic and governing committees. The Academic Secretariat advances the scholarly endeavor at the IDC by promoting an environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and community. As such, Eric serves as an advocate for all stakeholders in the IDC community who are interested in identifying, applying for, receiving, and conducting research and scholarly work, and in assisting community members with the stewardship of research funds.
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Board member
Science Policy Officer
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Daniel Gromadzki (D.Gromadzki@tudelft.nl)
graduated with MSc. Eng. in Chemical Technology from The West Pomeranian University of Technology in Poland. During undergraduate studies he was a visiting student or researcher at various institutions in Germany (Universität GH-Essen, BASF AG, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, University of Bayreuth) and recipient of Marie Curie Fellowships within FP 5, FP 6 and FP 7 in Prague, Vilnius and Berlin. In 2010 he received his PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry from the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague and currently holds a post-doctoral position at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (Novel Aerospace Materials group), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (http://www.lr.tudelft.nl). His research interest focuses on the synthesis of novel macromolecular architectures, self-assembly and structure-property relationships of such macromolecules, stimuli-responsive and biodegradable polymers for biomedicine and recently synthesis and investigation of bio-based polymers and self-healing materials for aerospace and other applications. Within MCFA he served as National Group Coordinator (2006-2008) and on Advisory Board (2009).
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Board member
Fund-raising Officer
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Fuad Hajji (Fuad.Hajji@nottingham.ac.uk)
received a graduate degree in Food Technology from the University Bonn, Germany with a thesis in thermodynamic incompatibility of biopolymers; current research interest: crystallization kinetics of amorphous biomaterials. During his academic education, he studied abroad twice, at the Durango Institute of Technology in Durango, Mexico and at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland, both scholarships were funded by the DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service. Fuad Hajji has been awarded with a three-years Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, UK, as PhD-Student in the Marie Curie Initial Training Network "Shaping and transformation in the engineering of polysaccharides" (STEP) under the supervision of Prof. Sandra Hill and Dr. Tim Foster. Beyond his academic achievements, he was involved and engaged in a number of extracurricular activities: member of the Food Technology students' representative body at the University Bonn, member of the DMK e.V. - “German Moroccan Competence Network” and MARKET TEAM e.V. - a national students' initiative. He has been elected as chairman and leader of communications & public affairs division of the MARKET-TEAM e.V. office Bonn-Cologne and has gained valuable experiences in fundraising and project management.
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MCFA Advisory Board
the Administrative board has created an Advisory Board with which the Administrative Board will closely collaborate. The members of the Advisory Board are listed on a separate page.
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