In accordance with the statutes of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS-PPD), there were several vacancies for incoming members of the Divisional Board in 2025. These were filled by a process of direct election by the Individual Members of the EPS. Board members themselves needed to be individual members of the EPS by the time they were elected. It is possible to become an individual member here.
The term of service is four years from summer 2025 to summer 2029, renewable by mutual agreement for a second four-year term. The first meeting that newly elected Board members were invited to attend took place in Vilnius, Lithuania on Sunday 6th July 2025.
The continuing membership of the EPS-PPD Board from 2025 to 2029 comprises:
- Kristel Crombé (chair)
- Hana Barankova
- David Burgess
- Mervi Mantsinen
- Ken McClements (Hon. Sec.)
- Brian Reville
- Caterina Riconda
- Monica Spolaore
- Luca Volpe – ex officio BPIF section
The duties of Board members are:
- to promote scientific excellence in plasma physics by rewarding researchers who have achieved outstanding results, through the extensive portfolio of prizes administered by EPS-PPD,
- to sustain and coordinate the Annual Conference on plasma physics, through the selection of each year’s Programme Committee and by identifying and supporting the flow of conference venues,
- to attend, in person, each of the two annual Board Meetings: one at the Annual Conference, and one at a European research centre in November or December,
- to be (or, after election, become) an Individual Member of the EPS; this typically requires the payment of a very modest fee, supplementary to membership of a national physical society.
Nominations, including self-nominations, of candidates for membership of the Board opened on the 1st of October 2024. Candidates were asked to agree to serve if elected, subject to the conditions listed above; in addition, their home institute agreed to cover their travel expenses to all Board meetings.