BoD

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors (BoD) is the decision-making body of the society. It contains 16 members who should be distributed across the global scientific centers of the society. The BoD is supported by the Executive Council, consisting of the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary, to steer the society and prepare decisions to be taken by the BoD.

President

Vandana Miller

Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

Vice President

Hiromasa Tanaka

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Secretary

Sander Bekeschus

INP, Greifswald, Germany

BoD

Annemie Bogearts University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Cristiane Yumi Koga Ito, São Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil
Cristina Canal, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Eric Robert, GREMI/CNRS, Orleans, France
Eun Ha Choi, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea
Julia Bandow, University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Katharina Stapelmann, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Matteo Gherardi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Paula Bourke, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Petr Lukes, University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Tetsuji Shimizu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba, Japan
Thomas von Woedtke, INP, Greifswald, Germany
Uros Cvelbar, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slowenia
Zdenko Machala, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Past BoD Members
Name (former) Place Terms
Alexander Fridman
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
2010-2024
Jean-Michel Pouvesle
GREMI/CNRS, Orleans, France
2010-2020
Klaus-Dieter Weltmann
INP, Greifswald, Germany
2010-2020
Pietro Favia
University of Bari, Bari, Italy
2010-2016
Mounir Laroussi
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA
2010-2016
Michael Wertheimer
University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2010-2016
Michael Kong
Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
2012-2016
Satoshi Hamaguchi
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2012-2020
Gary Friedman
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
2010-2012
David Graves
University of California, Berkeley, USA
2012-2020
R. Satava
University of Washington, Washington, USA
2010-2012
Gregor Morfil
Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany
2010-2012
F. Arefi-Khonsari
University de Curie, Paris, France
2010-2012
A.Dolgopolsky
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
2010-2012
Gerrit Kroesen
Eindhoven University, Eindhoven,The Netherlands
2012-2024
V. Vasilets
Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
2010-2012
Past Presients

The first President of ISPM was Klaus-Dieter Weltmann from Greifswald, Germany.
The current President of ISPM is Vandana Miller from Philadelphia, USA.

2022 – 2024 Gerrit Kroesen, University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2020 – 2022 Eun Ha Choi, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea

2018 – 2020 Alexander Fridman, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

2016 – 2018 Zdenko Machala, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2014 – 2016 Masaru Hori, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

2012 – 2014 Jean-Michel Pouvesle, GREMI/CNRS, Orleans, France

2010 – 2012 Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, INP, Greifswald, Germany

2009 Foundation of the Society