Chair
Member of the EC
External Advisory Group
for FP7 People Programme
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Guggi Kofod 
is currently a Post Doc. Group leader at the University of Potsdam in Germany, paid for with a five year personal grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research. His group is working on new materials for dielectric elastomer actuators, which might in the future be used "artificial muscles". He was born in Glostrup, Denmark, and lived his first four years in Bruxelles, when his mother was working as a secretary in the EEC. After receiving his Doctorate from the Danish Technical University, Denmark, he worked for one year at the Danish Institute for Fundamental Metrology, then for two years as Assistant Professor at Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines, teaching undergraduate students in both the physics and chemistry departments. 2006-2007 he was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Potsdam.
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Vice Chair
National Groups Coordinator
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Maria Antonietta Buccheri
Maria Antonietta Buccheri has just completed her first post-doc in human molecular genetics at the Azienda Universitaria Ospedaliera “Vittorio Emanuele” in Catania and she is now collaborating with the Department of Biologia Animale of the Università degli Studi di Catania. She graduated in Biology at the Università degli Studi di Catania in 2001 with a thesis in molecular genetics. After graduation, she moved to France and worked at Institut Cochin in Paris. She then moved back to Italy and started a PhD in November 2003. In 2004 she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship (FP6-EST) which she spent at CNRS in Villejuif (Paris-France). She obtained her PhD in molecular pharmacology at the Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy) in 2007. Her research interests are focused on the mechanisms of regulation of gene expression. Since 2005, she has been actively involved in the Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA).
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Secretary General
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Esperança Manuel  
graduated in chemistry (spectroscopic methods) from "Université Pierre et Marie Curie," with a thesis in NMR methodology for the study of biomolecular assemblies. Thanks to a one year ESR Marie Curie fellowship (2005-2006) she participated to the study of the magnetocaloric effect in molecule-based magnets at the "Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia", in Italy. Afterwards she has been appointed in Germany as a team Member of a Marie Curie Exellence grant team at the "Universität Duisburg-Essen" (2006-2008), to be involved in the study of nanoparticle-based diluted magnetic semiconductors as a PhD work.
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Vice Secretary General
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Erwan Lejeune
is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Edinburgh-UK. He graduated in biochemistry from "Université de Rennes 1" in 2002. He obtained a masters’ degree in “Biologie and Health” from the "Université de Rennes 1" in 2003 and went on to complete his PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Germany in 2007, with a thesis on centromeric epigenetic mechanisms. In 2008 he started post-doctoral research in the Allshire laboratory (Edinburgh-UK). There, he obtained funding from an EIF Marie Curie fellowship in 2009 to pioneer DNA localisation studies using live cell imaging techniques in fission yeast cells.
Over the past 5 years he developed multiple international collaborations with on-site experimentations (UK, Germany, Japan and Australia).
In parallel with the laboratory he is doing research on the subject of “Peer Review” and trying to identify ways to value this central practice of science in scholarly publishing.
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Treasurer
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Eric Buchlin
graduated in Physics from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a PhD from Université Paris Sud and Università di Firenze. During one more year in Florence, he was a research assistant funded by a Research and Training Network (FP5) and became a Member of MCFA. After a stay at Imperial College, London, and a CNES research fellowship, he is now a CNRS researcher at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France. He is working on turbulence in the solar corona and the solar wind.
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Vice Treasurer
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Rui Pinto Guimaraes
After the graduation from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in Computer Science he started working at Institute for Biomedical Engineering from University College London as a research assistant. That experience made him follow a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from that University while still working at the institute. His research in these fields guided him afterward to the Virtual Training and Development Center in Magdeburg, Germany with a 3 year Marie Curie Fellowship to work in surgery simulators. Here he acquired an interest in software embodied agents and speech recognition. Recently he finished a 1 year Marie Curie Fellowship in the Institute for Language and Speech Recognition in Athens, Greece.
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Board Member
Editor in Chief for the
Letter to Members
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Anett Kiss
Anett Kiss graduated in biology at the University of Szeged, Hungary in 2003. She completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Sheffield, UK as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the INTRO2 (Interdisciplinary Network for Training and Research on Photosystem 2) Research Training Network. Currently she is the holder of a European Reintegration Grant and carries out post-doctoral research at the Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden. Her research area is photosynthesis with special focus on the regulation of light harvesting.
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Board Member
Co-Editor for the
Letter to Members
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Maria Bostenaru Dan 
Maria Bostenaru Dan graduated in architecture with focus on urban planning at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) in 1999. She continued doing research there in the field of risks, particularly seismic risk, to which the early 20th century heritage is subjected. She hold 3 Marie Curie Fellowships: an FP5 EST at the host institution ROSE School in Pavia (Italy), 6 months in 2002-2003, an FP6 Intra-European Fellowship (experienced researcher) also at the ROSE School, 2 years in 2005-2007 and an FP7 European Reintegration Grant to her home country of Romania, 3 years in 2007-2010. She benefited also from national grants, such as DFG in Germany (as student assistant with more Collaborative Research Centres SFB) and the CNCSIS and Architects’ Stamp in Romania. She is now researcher, permanent position, at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest (Romania). She was also awarded a Support Grant by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal (Canada), one month in the summer 2010. She is Member of several international scientific committees in her field, and author and editor of numerous books.
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Board Member
Coordinator for MCFA activities
at the ESOF2012
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Natalia Balcázar 
is since its foundation director of ENVIROpro – European Environmental Project Management, Germany (www.enviro-pro.eu). She studied Geological Sciences at the Complutense University in Madrid and made in 1992 her doctoral thesis in the framework of an ECSC project. After her PhD, she went in 1994 to Germany with a post-doc DAAD fellowship and stay at the same research institute (www.fehs.de) further with a Marie Curie individual fellowship. Her main work areas are the improvement of the use of resources and the energy efficiency for SMEs and municipalities. Since her arrival to Germany she has been working also at the women network Connecta – Das Frauennetzwerk e.V. in the area of Gender Mainstreaming. After her Marie Curie Fellowship she jointed as active Member the Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA). 2005/2006 she was Member of the MCFA Advisory Board. In 2007/2008 she was Treasurer and since 2009 still supporting Eric as Vice-Treasurer.
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Board Member
Project Coordinator
for the new website
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Yegor Domanov
is currently doing his second post-doctoral project at the Institut Curie in Paris. He is studying the diffusion of lipids and proteins in highly curved biological membranes to understand how the membrane shape affects dynamical processes in the cells, in particular, how it modulates the transmission of the information in neuronal synapses. Born in Ukraine, Yegor studied biophysics and got his PhD at Kharkiv University. In 2005-2008 he woked in Finland, where he got a Marie Curie fellowship at the Medical Faculty of the University of Helsinki. His work there was focused on interactions of lipid membranes with peptides or short proteins in view of their role in the mechanisms of innate immunity (against bacteria, fungi, viruses) and in some pathologies related to amyloid deposition (diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease etc.).
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Board Member
"Women in Science"
Group Coordinator
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Gianna Avellis
is an Italian citizen and former EIT Fellow of Marie Curie. She is graduated in Computing, and spent 20 years in industrial research and 4 years in academic research. Gianna is currently working at Innova Puglia SpA, the in-house company of Apulia Region to promote Technology Transfer and Innovation to PAs. She is leading researcher in Mobile Learning and has large experience as project manager of European R&D projects in Software Engineering, Mobile Telecommunication, Multimedia and Education. She serves the EU Commission and other regional agencies of research as Independent expert evaluator.She was awarded a HCM (Human Capital and Mobility) fellowship of 18 months at Imperial College, London, UK, as experienced researcher, in Software Engineering. Gianna is currently interested to investigate how scientific mobility can enhance the career of women in SET, and founded to this purpose mobile Women in Science and Technology (m-WiSET) Working Group in MCFA, and ITWIIN (Italian Women Innovators and Investors Network) www.itwiin.it , the Italian branch of the European EUWIIN.
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Board Member
"Women in Science"
Group Coordinator
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Nusrat Jahan Mobassarah Sanghamitra
is an Indian national. From February 2008, she have joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the Marie Curie Research Training Network in the Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands. She is a bioinorganic chemist and now during this Marie Curie training fellowship she have switched to biophysics. Nusrat studies the electron transfer and tunnelling properties of molecularly wired metalloproteins to the surface.
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Board Member
"Women in Science" Officer
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Francesca Casini
Francesca Casini is post doc at ETHZ Zurich, working on landslides induced by rainfall under the supervision of Prof. S.M. Springman. She is currently collaborating on two multidisciplinary projects: TRAMM (Triggering of Rapid Mass Movements in Steep Terrain, funded by CCES) and SafeLand (Funded by FP7). Main activities: laboratory characterisation of soil behaviour in saturated/unsaturated conditions; numerical modelling of a triggered slope. She also collaborates with the land-climate interactions group, ( Prof. S. Seneviratne - SwissSMEX), focusing on the calibration and interpretation of soil moisture readings. Recently she has started co-operating with Prof. Viggiani of Università di Roma Tor Vergata on the mechanical behaviour of materials with grain crushing.
She graduated in Enviromental Engineering at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata with a thesis geotechnics. After she moved to Università di Roma La Sapienza and obtained a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering with a thesis on “Effects of partial saturation on the behaviour of a compacted silt”. During her PhD she was ESR at Univeristat Politecnica de Catalunya (13 months) in the context of the RTN “Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils for Engineering” – MUSE funded by the EC under FP6. She worked on “Physical and Numerical Modelling of the Response of an Unsaturated Soil Foundation Layer under Loading”. As part of this research project she was responsible for planning and carrying out centrifuge tests at Laboratoire Central de Ponts et Chausses (LCPC) of Nantes.
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Board Member
Science Policy Group Coordinator
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Federico Montesino Pouzols
Federico Montesino Pouzols is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental and Industrial Machine Learning group of the Adaptive Informatics Research Center, Dept. of Information and Computer Science of the Aalto University School of Science and Technology (former Helsinki University of Technology). He works in the project DENOT-EM-CI, developing nonlinear tools for environmental modeling and chemoinformatics.
He earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science (Physics) in 1999, followed by an Engineering degree in Computing in 2002, both from University of Seville. He earned his M.Sc. on intelligent microelectronic systems in 2005 and his Ph.D. in 2009 with a thesis on Computational Intelligence applied to Mining and Control of Network Traffic, at CSIC and University of Seville. During 1999-2003 he worked in the telecommunications and computing industry. From 2004-2007 he was a researcher and assistant lecturer at the University of Seville. From 2008 until May 2009 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville, CSIC.
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Board Member
Science Policy Officer
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Malte Rehbein
Malte is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Göttingen and an MA in History and Mathematics. After some years of employment in industry as a software developer, project manager and strategic consultant, he returned to academia with a Marie Curie fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway, participating in the TEXTE (Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing) programme. He is currently benefiting from a MC Reintegration Grant.
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