Renewal of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors

The renewal of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, effective since 16 May 2025, is marking a significant milestone for the Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission (SAM).

Selected for their outstanding expertise across a wide range of scientific fields, the Advisors aim to deliver high-quality, timely and independent scientific advice to the College of European Commissioners on any specific policy issue, including on those that the European Parliament and the Council consider to be of major importance.

The new Group

Dimitra Simeonidou (Professor of High-Performance Networks and Director of the Smart Internet Lab, University of Bristol, UK), Rémy Slama (Researcher in environmental health, senior investigator at Inserm (national institute of health and medical research), senior investigator at ENS-PSL (Ecole normale supérieure), Professor at IBENS, Paris), Mangala Srinivas (Professor of Cell Biology & Immunology, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands),  Adam Izdebski (Independent Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany ), Martin Kahanec, (Professor at Central European University, University of Economics, Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia) and Rafał Łukasik (Director of Research & Innovation Department at Łukasiewicz Centre, The Łukasiewicz Research Network Presidential Plenipotentiary for International Relations in Warsaw, Poland) will join Naomi Ellemers, (Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, and who continues her mandate), to complete the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.

Background

The Group of Chief Scientific Advisors is part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM). Their role is to make policy recommendations, based on the evidence gathered by SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies), and with the support of the SAM secretariat within the European Commission.