ETS Board Elections 2025

3 board positions of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS) will be opened for election at the European Conference on Thermoelectrics ECT2025 in  Nancy, France from September 8 – 11, 2025.

The European Thermoelectric Society invites you to nominate your candidate(s) to the secretary by email jan.koenig@ipm.fraunhofer.de containing:

  1. Name
  2. Address
  3. Affiliation
  4. Short biographies, picture, and relationship to thermoelectric
  5. Agreement of the candidate to apply for a board position

The European Thermoelectric Society encourages the European Thermoelectricians to make every effort to attract candidates from a variety of European countries, technical fields, and institutions, to best serve the mission of the European Thermoelectric Society. Board directors are elected for a three years term and are expected to play an active role in the European Thermoelectric Society.

The current board members are: Dario Narducci (President) / Italy; Antonio Pereira Gonçalves (Vice President) Spain; Jan D. König (Secretary) / Germany; Carlo Fanculli / Italy; Eckhard Müller (Treasurer) / Germany; Marisol Martín-González / Spain; Luis Fonseca / Spain; Christophe Candolfi & Bertrand Lenoir (Chair ECT2025) / France; Theodora Kyratsi / Cyprus; / Czech Republic; Krzysztof Wojciechowski & Janusz Tobola (Chair ICT/ECT2024) / Poland;  Neophytos Neophytou / UK; Jan-Willem Bos / UK (Chair ECT2026)

The underlined members will leave the board.

The major goals (objectives) of the European Thermoelectric Society as stated in the bylaws are:

  • a) To promote cooperation and the exchange of information and ideas between individuals and groups with interest in thermoelectricity;
  • b) To organize conferences and training courses on the subject of thermoelectricity for members and other interested persons in Europe;
  • c) To encourage collaboration in thermoelectricity in applied and fundamental research in Europe;
  • d) To support and facilitate communication between industry and academics in Europe;
  • e) To represent Europe in international thermoelectricity organizations.
  • f) To award outstanding merits or achievements in the field of thermoelectricity.

Please don’t hesitate to submit your nominations. Nominations will be accepted until July 15, 2025. The election of the new ETS board members will be  organized during the ECT2025 in Nancy, France. Further details will be announced at the beginning of the conference.

On behalf of the executive ETS board

Jan D. König