The General Council
The General Council (GC) consists of representatives of the European countries active in magnetism research, typically one representative per country. Members are renewed on a three-year basis, as elected by the previous GC. The GC defines the general policy developed by the EMA. It oversees that the actions developed by the EMA, as well as those developed by associated bodies (ESM, JEMS, etc..), respect the Statute of the association.
The General Council is described as follows, in the statutes of the EMA.
The General Council consists of representatives of the European countries1 active in magnetism research (one representative per country)2. Representatives are elected country by country by members with voting rights of the existing General Council, based on at most three nominees. The country representatives who are about to end their term, in connection with their national communities, are in charge of proposing these nominees. Nominations may be submitted via respective national magnetism societies / associations, the magnetism section of the national Physical society or by other types of existing official organisations or structures on magnetism. In case only one person is nominated for a given country, the result is valid only if 50% or more of members of the GC with voting rights proceed to the vote. The mandate of a national representative is three years, renewable once. The election takes place from April to June every year, and the new mandate starts the day of the next meeting of the GC. The mandate of the leaving national representative ends the day before this meeting.
1 A country within the European continent, or a country or geographical area hosting a physical society that is member of the European Physical Society.
2 A country is considered as active in magnetism, if at least one paper has been published every year within the past five years.
Current General Council
Term expires 2024
| Christian Back Mary-Hrachoohi Boghosian Pietro Gambardella Fridrik Magnus Andreas Michels Nikolay Perov Theo Rasing Alexander Shengelaya Theodossis Trypiniotis Ora Entin Wohlman |
Term expires 2025
| Anatoli Sidorenko Andrejs Cebers Cathrine Frandsen Maarit Karppinen Vladan Kusigerski Ivan Nedkov Damir Pajić Raivo Stern Alex Tovstolytkin |
Term expires 2026
| Johan Akerman Denis Arčon Agustina Asenjo Barahona Riccardo Bertacco Susana Cardoso Freitas Thomas Moore Emmanuelle Jal Dariusz Kaczorowski Plamen Stamenov Alexandru Stancu Dieter Suess Vassilis Tangoulis Karel Carva Christoph Adelmann Lajos K. Varga Kornel Richter Nerija Zurauskiene Erik Wahlström Mustafa Oztürk |
Past members
Term expired 2023
| Elinor Galanis Vojtěch Uhlíř Bartel Van Wayenberge Rastislav Varga Numan Akdogan Dennis Gerhard Meier |
Term expired 2022
| Sergei Trukhanov |
Term expired 2021
| Leon Abelmann |
Term expired 2020
| Franca Albertini John Michael Coey Tomasz Dietl Paulo Freitas Manuel R. Ibarra Tomas Jungwirth Nicoletta Lupu Dimitris Niarchos Per Nordblad Thomas Schrefl Bartel Van Wayenberge Rastislav Varga Elinor Galanis |