EOS Board elections 2008

Your membership of your National Society automatically makes you a voting member of the European Optical Society (EOS).

If you are unsure whether you are already registered as an EOS member, please do not hesitate to contact the EOS Office at info@myeos.org mentioning your contact details and your national optical society.

Important: As a member of a national optical society of the EOS, you are automatically an individual or associate member of EOS.

This year (2008) is an election year for the EOS Board and there are five seats to be filled.

For the third time the EOS Board elections are carried out exclusively electronic. There are five vacancies to be filled on the EOS Board this year. At the beginning of June you will receive a message from 'election@myeos.org' that includes a hyperlink to the election website and your login information for the voting system.

In the meantime, please inform yourself about the candidates for the EOS Board.

List of nominees (there will be cv's available soon)

Pedro Andres (Spain)

Emmanouil Kriezis (Greece)

Gilles Pauliat (France)*

Thomas Pearsall (France)

Giancarlo Righini (Italy)

Peter Török (UK)*

Paul Urbach (Netherlands)

Valentin Vlad (Romania)

* These two candidates are standing for re-election for a second term.

The European Optical Society has up to now about 5000 individual members who are elective. Our membership consists of 8 Branches (France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and IOP – the Optical Group of the Institute of Physics, the UK and Ireland Branch), 10 Affiliated Societies (Belgian Committee of Optics, Czech and Slovak Republic, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, PromOptica, Romania, Spain). Please take advantage of the opportunity to vote!

For your information,

The present Board is:

Joseph Braat, Netherlands	(currently Past President, term ends this year)
Cornelia Denz, Germany	(term ends 2010)
Daniel Dolfi, France	(Treasurer; appointed by the French Branch; term ends this year but may be re-appointed)
Pierre-Yves Fonjallez, Sweden	(term ends 2010)
Hans-Peter Herzig, Switzerland	(will be President from 2008 to 2010)
Herve Lefevre, France	(term ends 2010)
Gordon Love, UK	(term ends 2010)
Giles Pauliat, France	(terms ends this year, but eligible for re-nomination)
Roberta Ramponi, Italy	(will be Past President from 2008 to 2010)
Peter Seitz, Switzerland	(appointed by the Italian, Swedish, Swiss, Hungarian and Russian Branches)
Concita Sibilia, Italy	(term ends 2010)
Pavel Tomanek, Czech & Slovak Republic	(Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, ex officio)
Peter Török, UK	(Publications Secretary - term ends this year, but has already been renominated)
Theo Tschudi, Germany	(Secretary of the Board, appointed by the German Branch - term ends this year but may be re-appointed)
disengaged	(Chair of the Industrial Advisory Committee)

Ex officio

Braat, Joseph (Netherlands)	Past President
Tomanek, Pavel (Czech & Slovak Republics)	Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee

Elected / appointed by the Branches

Dolfi, Daniel (France)	Treasurer - representing France
Seitz, Peter (Switzerland)	representing Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, Russia
Tatam, Ralph (UK)	representing UK
Tschudi, Theo (Germany)	Secretary - representing Germany

Elected by the affiliated societies

Domingo, Concepcion (Spain)

representing the affiliated societie

To clarify the above, the vacancies for election by the membership in 2008 are the seats presently occupied by:

Hans-Peter Herzig, Switzerland	(will be President and ex officio Board member from 2008 to 2010)
Karl Lenhardt, Germany	(retired from the Board early)
Giles Pauliat, France	(eligible for re-nomination, and has already been nominated)
Roberta Ramponi, Italy	(will be Past President and ex officio Board member from 2008 to 2010)
Peter Török, UK	(eligible for re-nomination, and has already been nominated)