General Assembly

The General Assembly is the principal decision-making body of YASAS. It is composed of delegates from the Young Academies that are members of YASAS. The General Assembly meets annually and elects the Executive Board, which is responsible for implementing the decisions made by the General Assembly, coordinating involvement in projects, and handling the organization’s daily activities.

Governance

Executive Board

The Executive Board comprises five members from five different YASAS member academies.

Noel Miranda

President

Jennifer McMahon

Executive Board member

Jovana V. Milić

Executive Board member

Jaak Sikk

Executive Board member

Jeroen Van Schependom

Executive Board member

Professor of Translational Oncology at Leiden University, the Netherlands

Member of The Young Academy of the Netherlands

Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland

Member of the Young Academy Ireland

Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Turku, Finland

Member of the Swiss Young Academy

Lecturer in Contemporary Improvisation, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonia

Member of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences

Associate Professor of NeuroEngineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Member of the Jonge Academie of Belgium

Team

Anda Popovici

Scientific Policy Officer

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