EMA

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. In addition, the GC has regular invited members with no voting rights. 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 2025

Anatoli Sidorenko
Moldova

Andrejs Cebers
Latvia

Cathrine Frandsen
Denmark

Maarit Karppinen
Finland

Vladan Kusigerski
Serbia

Ivan Nedkov
Bulgaria

Damir Pajić
Croatia

Raivo Stern
Estonia

Alex Tovstolytkin
Ukraine

Term expires 2026

Johan Akerman
Sweden

Denis Arčon
Slovenia

Agustina Asenjo Barahona
Spain

Riccardo Bertacco
Italy

Susana Cardoso Freitas
Portugal

Thomas Moore
United Kingdom

Emmanuelle Jal
France

Dariusz Kaczorowski
Poland

Plamen Stamenov
Ireland

Alexandru Stancu
Romania

Dieter Suess
Austria

Vassilis Tangoulis
Greece

Karel Carva
Czech Republic

Christoph Adelmann
Belgium

Lajos K. Varga
Hungary

Kornel Richter
Slovakia

Nerija Zurauskiene
Lithuania

Erik Wahlström
Norway

Mustafa Oztürk
Turkey

Term expires 2027

Oliver Gutfleisch
Germany

Mary-Hrachoohi Boghosian
Armenia

Dirk Grundler
Switzerland

Fridrik Magnus
Iceland

Andreas Michels
Luxembourg

Theo Rasing
The Netherlands

Alexander Shengelaya
Georgia

Theodossis Trypiniotis
Cyprus

Ora Entin Wohlman
Israel

Invited members

Invited members are representatives of entities listed below and acting at the European scale in collaboration with EMA. They take part in meetings of the General Council with no voting rights.

The European magnetometry network
magnetometry.eu

The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society
eps.org

Petaspin
petaspin.com

The European Institute of Molecular Magnetism
EIMM.eu

The SpinTronic Factory
spintronicfactory.eu

Past members

Term expires 2024

Christian Back
Germany

Pietro Gambardella
Switzerland

Term expired 2023

Elinor Galanis
United Kingdom

Vojtěch Uhlíř
Czech Republic

Bartel Van Wayenberge
Belgium

Rastislav Varga
Slovakia

Numan Akdogan
Turkey

Dennis Gerhard Meier
Norway

Term expired 2022

Sergei Trukhanov
Belarus

Term expired 2021

Leon Abelmann
The Netherlands

Nikolay Perov
Russian Federation

Term expired 2020

Franca Albertini
Italy

John Michael Coey
Ireland

Tomasz Dietl
Poland

Paulo Freitas
Portugal

Manuel R. Ibarra
Spain

Tomas Jungwirth
Czech Republic

Nicoletta Lupu
Romania

Dimitris Niarchos
Greece

Per Nordblad
Sweden

Thomas Schrefl
Austria

Bartel Van Wayenberge
Belgium

Rastislav Varga
Slovakia

Elinor Galanis
United Kingdom