Presidency

President

Jüri Engelbrecht (1939) is professor in physics and mathematics at the Technical University of Tallinn, where he is Head of the Centre of Non-linear Studies. He has been visiting professor at a large number of universities in Europe and is Vice-President for international relations and Former President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. and is on the Governing Council of ESF. Engelbrecht was member of EURAB and of the European Research Council Identification Committee and is on the Governing Council of European Science Foundation (ESF). He has published numerous books and scientific articles, and was editor of the ALLEA Report “National Strategies of Research in Smaller European Countries”, published by the ALLEA Working Group under his Chairmanship.


Vice-President



Nicholas (C.N.J.) Mann (1942) is Professor emeritus in Renaissance Studies and was Dean of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London. He is also Senior Research Fellow of the Warburg Institute, of which he was Director from 1990 – 2001. Mann was visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe and Canada and has been member of numerous executive, advisory and editorial boards, including the ALLEA evaluation panel on the European Science Foundation. Until 2006 he served as Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy; he has been elected ALLEA Vice-President in 2006.