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Members of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors

Current and former members, and their affiliations.

Current members

Nicole Grobert

Chair
Professor of Nanomaterials, Department of Materials, University of Oxford

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Maarja Kruusmaa

Professor of Biorobotics, Vice-rector for Research, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and Visiting professor with Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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Eric F. Lambin

Professor of Geography and Sustainability Science, Université catholique de Louvain and Stanford University.

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Alberto Melloni

Professor of History of Christianity at University of Modena/Reggio Emilia, secretary of the Foundation for Religious Studies and Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at the University of Bologna.

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Nebojsa Nakicenovic

deputy Chair

Director of The World in 2050 (TWI2050). Former Deputy Director General and Acting Director General of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and a former tenured Professor of Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology.

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Eva Zažímalová

Professor of Plant Anatomy and Physiology, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, scientist at the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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Former members

Éva Kondorosi

(2020-2023)
Professor, Research Director of the Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence.

Carina Keskitalo

(2016-2021)
Professor of Political Science, Department of Geography, Umeå University

Sir Paul Nurse

(2016-2021)
deputy Chair (2020-2021)
Director of the Francis Crick Institute London

Janusz Bujnicki

(2015 - 2020)
Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw

Pearl Dykstra

deputy Chair (2015-2020)
Professor of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Elvira Fortunato

(2015-2020)
Professor, Materials Science Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology, NOVA University, Lisbon

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

(2015-2020)
Chair (2017-2020). Former Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Julia Slingo

(2015 - 2016)
Chief Scientist, Met Office, Exeter

Henrik C. Wegener

Chair (2015 - 2017)
Executive Vice President, Chief Academic Officer and Provost, Technical University of Denmark

Cédric Villani

(2015 - 2017)
Director, Henri Poincaré Institute, Paris