Committees
ISEK values the contributions of our diverse membership and acknowledges that all members represent the future of our science and society. The Society encourages all members to help advance ISEK by taking an active role on a committee.
The Council is committed to being an inclusive organization that encourages diversity. We welcome involvement of members from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds.
Browse the listing below for further information on each committee and application process.
We welcome hearing from anyone interested in contributing to the Society.
Communications Committee
The committee serves to coordinate communications between ISEK, its membership, and the public on matters central to the Society’s vision and mission.
Please indicate your interest in joining the committee via this intake form.
Committee Initiatives
- Website: The committee is currently putting the last touches to our revamped website.
- Social media: We aim to further our presence on social media to engage trainees, researchers and other professionals and build the ISEK community.
Corrado Cescon
University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland
Emma Hodson-Tole
Manchester Metropolitan
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Committee
To facilitate an equitable association, that recognizes diversity and inclusion, and emphasizes quality of life in event planning and dissemination activities.
Please indicate your interest in joining the committee via this intake form.
Committee Initiatives
We will continue our work on encouraging and supporting diversity in all aspects of ISEK and the ISEK Congress. More specifically, we will:
- Develop initiatives to support members who may otherwise not have a chance to attend our conferences or contribute to workshops and discussions
- Organization of talks or tweets for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the International Day of Older Persons
Niels Brouwer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Madeleine Lowery
University College Dublin
Silvia Muceli
Chalmers University of Technology
Kylie Tucker
University of Queensland
Early Career Researcher Committee (ECR)
The Early Career Researcher Committee represents the students and early career researchers of ISEK. The committee was formed through a recent call for participation to all student and postdoc Society members, which received an outstanding response from the community, reinforcing the timeliness of this effort.
Committee Initiatives
- Targeted ECR Newsletter: The quarterly newsletter focuses on information pertinent to PhD students, postdocs and other early career researchers.
- DeLuca symposium: From 2023, the ECR committee is responsible for organizing the DeLuca symposium. This symposium will take place in ~July on the “off-conference year”. The organization of this symposium will be supported by our ECR DeLuca award winners from the previous ISEK congress. Our 2022 DeLuca award winners were: Manuela Besomi, Marco Ghislieri and Bryan Schlink.
- Communications: Watch this space as our ECR committee works with our Communications Committee to ensure that our communication with members and beyond is efficient and effective.
The ISEK Council invites members who are students and early career researchers to contribute to the Society’s leadership by serving on the ECR Committee.
There are two positions open for the 2023-2025 term. The term of service is 2-years. Committee members can hold a position on this committee for up to 2 terms (4 years).
Eligibility at the time of submission of the expression of interest:
- Higher Degree/Grad Students are required to be > 1 year (full time equivalent) since commencement of their PhD, and not yet having submitted their thesis.
- Early Career Researchers are required to be < 5 years (full time equivalent) since PhD conferral and may be awaiting conferral after thesis submission.
Please indicate your interest by filling out this expression of interest form.
Manuela Besomi
The University of Queensland
Early career researcher
Niels Brouwer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Early career researcher
Josh Carr
Texas Christian University
Early career researcher
Ricardo Mesquita
Edith Cowan University
Student
Phoebe Ng
The University of Queensland
Student
Gregory Pearcey
Northwestern University
Early career researcher
Andy Sanderson
Manchester Metropolitan University
Early career researcher
Member Services Committee
The Membership Committee cooperates with the ISEK Council to develop and maintain programs to ensure that ISEK brings value to all its members.
Please indicate your interest in joining the committee via this intake form.
Committee Initiatives
- ISEK JEK Tutorials: The committee organizes the Tutorials which are scheduled each year in October and April.
- Repository of teaching materials: We are in the process of creating a repository of teaching materials available to the ISEK community.
- Technical committee: We are starting a committee to inform the research direction of ISEK and to support scientific activity in selected areas of interest to the ISEK membership.
Manuela Besomi
The University of Queensland
François Hug
Université Côte d’Azur
Francesco Negro
University of Brescia
Technical Committee Chair
Taian Vieira
Politecnico di Torino
Organization Committee
The Organization Committee reviews and keeps all governing documents up to date, and coordinates the grant writing efforts to support ISEK activities such as the Congress. The committee also ensures coordination across all other ISEK committees.
Laurent Bouyer
Laval Université
Madeleine Lowery
University College Dublin
Eric Perreault
Northwestern University
Kylie Tucker
University of Queensland
Kohei Watanabe
Chukyo University