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Office

The iEMSs Office (2024-2026)

President 

Val Snow, AgResearch, New Zealand

Secretary

Takuya Iwanaga, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia

Treasurer

Ioannis Athanasiadis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Vice -presidents

  • Marina Erechtchoukova, York University, Canada
  • Min Chen, Nanjing Normal University, China
  • Peter Khaiter, York University, Canada
  • Sondoss Elsawah, UNSW, Australia

Arbitrators

Carlo Lepori, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli
, IDSIA USI/SUPSI, Switzerland

The iEMSs Board and the iEMSs Office are in charge for 2 years, new elections will be held in 2024, before the iEMSs 2024 biennial meeting.

Past-presidents

2020-2024 Stefan Reis, UKCEH, United Kingdom

2016-2020 Dan Ames, Brigham Young University, United States

2012-2016: Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA, Switzerland

2008-2012: Alexey Voinov, ITC, U Twente, The Netherlands

2004-2008: Giorgio Guariso, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, EU

2000-2004: Anthony J. Jakeman, Australian National University, Australia.

Board

The iEMSs Board of Directors (2024-2026)

In addition to the Office members, the following iEMSs members compose the Board of Directors:

  • Dan Ames
  • Ioannis Athanasiadis
  • Susan Cuddy
  • Karina Gibert
  • Tony Jakeman
  • Chris Knightes
  • Junzhi Liu
  • Pouyan Nejadhashemi
  • Cheng-Zhi Qin
  • Saman Razavi
  • Stefan Reis
  • Andrea Rizzoli
  • Wenyan Wu
  • Fengyuan Zhang

The iEMSs Board  are in charge for 2 years, new elections will be held in 2026, prior to the Biennial Meeting.

iEMSs Biennial General Meeting (BGM) 2024

Dear iEMSs Members,

To mark the transfer of leadership to the newly elected president, office and board, we invite all iEMSs members to participate in the iEMSs Biennial General Meeting, which we will organise on August 5, 2024 in two sessions to accommodate all member time zones to the extent possible. The first session will run at 6 a.m. UTC and the second session at 8 p.m. UTC. We will send out a detailed email with agenda and meeting registration (likely through ZOOM) in the next couple of weeks.

Please save the date and we look forward to meet virtually with many of you on this occasion.

With best regards, Val, Stefan & Takuya