Dear ISGS Members,
The election for the new ISGS Board of Directors (BoD) will take place during the 23rd International Sol-Gel Conference in Lisbon, with 3 Senior and 2 Early Career Researcher (ECR) positions to be filled.
Voting will be conducted electronically via eBallot on 2–3 September 2026. All ISGS members are encouraged to vote, regardless of whether they are attending the conference.
The results of the Board of Directors election will be officially announced during the afternoon session on 4 September 2026 at the Sol-Gel 2026 Conference in Lisbon.
GO Kawamura
Toyohashi University of Technology, Hibarigaoka, Aichi, Japan
Inna Melnyk
Institute of Geotechnics SAS, Kosice, Slovak Republic; Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine
Rogéria Rocha Gonçalves
University of São Paulo Chemistry Department-FFCLRP, Brazil
Seeni Meera Kamal Mohamed
Independent Researcher, Linder Weg 95, Cologne, Germany
Nataly Carolina Rosero Navarro
Institute of Ceramic and Glass, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
Hajar Maleki
Laboratoire Catalyse & Spectrochimie, CNRS, ENSICAEN, Normandy University, Caen, France
Early-Career Researcher (ECR) member of the ISGS BoD 2026
Ani Vardanyan
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Esteban Gioria
Institute of Chemical Technology, Leipzig University, Germany
Gabriel Toshiaki Tayama
Research Associate – Centre for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers, Universite Laval, Université Laval, Québec
Emilia Carolina Merino Abad
Hereon, Helmholtz Zentrum, Institute of Surface Science, Geesthacht, Germany
Elena Colusso
University of Padua, Industrial Engineering Department, Padova, Italy
Jakub Kusz
Max Planck Institue of Colloids and Interfaces, Colloid Chemistry Department, Potsdam, Germany
Selay Sert Çok
