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Polish scientist to lead All European Academies (ALLEA)

For the first time, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities will be headed by a Polish scholar. Its president for the 2024-2027 term is Prof. Paweł Rowiński of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 

Poland is represented in ALLEA by the Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. For the 2024-2027 term, Prof. Pawel Rowiński was elected president, succeeding in this position Prof. Antonio Loprieno (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences). He is the first Pole to head the organization. He has served on ALLEA Board since 2018. 

All European Academies (ALLEA) is the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. It was established in 1994 and represents nearly 60 Academies of Sciences and Scientific Societies from more than 40 member countries of the Council of Europe. It is also one of the most important institutions in providing scientific advice to the European Commission. 

Professor Pawel Rowiński is a Polish hydrologist, hydrodynamicist, geophysicist, full professor at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2015-2018 and 2019-2022) and Director of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008-2015 and since 2023). He is internationally recognized by the scientific community, especially in the field of a rapidly developing new specialty – environmental hydrodynamics. He conducts theoretical research, constructs mathematical models, conducts computational work, as well as complex experimental research both in laboratories and in natural conditions (rivers). 

The new ALLEA Board, who will serve alongside Prof. Rowiński, includes: 

  • Jūras Banys (Lithuanian Academy of Sciences), 
  • Ylva Engström (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), 
  • Annette Grüters-Kieslich (National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina/Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities), 
  • Lara Keuck, succeeded by Kerstin Pahl (July 2025) (German Young Academy), 
  • Marie Louise Nosch (Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters), 
  • Jozef Ongena (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts), 
  • Päivi Pahta (Council of Finnish Academies), 
  • Karin Roelofs (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), 
  • Neri Salvadori (Academy of the Lincei, Italy), 
  • Camilla Serck-Hanssen (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters). 
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