EBSA is composed of the Biophysical Societies in the European area.
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ARBRE
Association of Resources for Biophysical Research in Europe
President/Chair:
Prof. Adriana Miele
Institut des Sciences Analytiques
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
69100 Villeurbanne, France
Secretary:
Dr Josef Houser
Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography Core Facility,
Masaryk University
Kamenice 753/5, Bohunice,
Brno, Czechia
Albania
Albanian Biochemistry and Biophysics Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Fatbardha Babani
Dept. Biochem. Biophys.,
Inst. of Biological research
Tirana, Albania
Secretary:
Prof. Marenglen Spiro
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Biophysics,
University of Tirana
Tirana, Albania
Armenia
Pan-Armenia Biophysical Association
President/Chair:
Prof. Tsovak M. Avakian
Alikhanyan Brothers st. 2
Yerevan Physics Institute,
Department of Biophysics,
375036 Yerevan 36, Armenia
Secretary:
Dr Naira Ayvazyan
Faculty of Biology, Biophysics,
Yerevan State University
A. Manookyan 1,
Yerevan, Armenia
Austria
Biophysics Austria
President/Chair:
Prof. Bernhard E. Flucher
Department of Physiology & Medical Physics
Medical University Innsbruck
Austria
Secretary:
Dr Rainer Schindl
Medical University Graz, Austria
Homepage: https://www.medunigraz.at/team-rainer-schindl
Belgium
Belgian Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Dr Catherine Michaux
University of Namur
Chemistry Department
61 rue de Bruxelles
5000 Namur, Belgium
Secretary:
Dr Filip Meersman
Department Chemie
Universiteit Antwerpen
Groenenborgerlaan 171
2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
Croatia
Croatia Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Dr Nadica Ivošević DeNardis
Laboratory for Marine and Atmospheric Biogeochemistry
Division for Marine and Environmental Research
Ruđer Bošković Institute,
Bijenička c. 54,
10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Secretary:
Dr Romina Kraus
Center for Marine Research
Ruđer Bošković Institute
G. Paliaga 5
52210 Rovinj, Croatia
Czechia
Czech Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Eva Bártová, PhD., DSc.
Institute of Biophysics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Královopolská 135,
612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
Secretary:
Dr Jozef Lazar
1st Faculty of Medicine,
Charles University
Albertov 2048,
128 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Denmark
Danish National Committee for Biophysics
President/Chair:
Prof. Daniel Otzen
iNANO, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Aarhus University
Gustav Wieds Vej 10C,
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Secretary:
Egypt
Egyptian Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Fadel M. Ali
Radiation and Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Secretary:
Prof. Dr. Aida A. Salama
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University
Cairo, Egypt
Finland
Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae r.y.
President/Chair:
Dr Mikko Karpale
University of Oulu
Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
90220 Oulu, Finland
Secretary:
Dr Krista Juurikka
University of Oulu
90220 Oulu, Finland
France
French Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Dr Coralie Bompard
Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionelle (UGSF)
Campus Cité scientifique, Bat-C9
59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Secretary:
Dr Marlene Martinho
Unité de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (BIP)
31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, CS 70071
13402 Marseille CEDEX 09, France
Germany
German Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Klaus Gerwert
Ruhr University Bochum & Centre for Protein Diagnostics
Department of Biophysics
Gesundheitscampus 4,
44801 Bochum, Germany
Secretary:
Prof. Thomas Gutsmann
Forschungszentrum Borstel, Forschungsgruppe Biophysik
Parkallee 10,
23845 Borstel, Germany
Greece
Hellenic Crystallographic Association
President/Chair:
Dr Petros Giastas
Biotechnology Department
Agricultural University of Athens
75, Iera Odos
Athens 11855, Greece
Secretary:
Dr Maria Dimarogona
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Patras
1, Caratheodory University Campus
Patras 265 04, Greece
Hungary
Hungarian Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Miklós Kellermayer
Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology
Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine
H-1085 Budapest, Tűzoltó u. 37-47, Hungary
Secretary:
Beáta Bugyi
Department of Biophysics, University of Pécs, Medical School
H-7624 Pécs, Szigeti út 12., Hungary
Israel
Israel Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Elisha Haas
Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
Secretary:
Italy
Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics
President/Chair:
Prof. Velia Minicozzi
Dipartimento di Fisica
Universita di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1,
00133 Roma, Italia
Secretary:
Dr Paolo Bianchini
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Campus Erzelli
Via Enrico Melen 83B,
16152 Genova, Italia
Lithuania
Lithuanian Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Saulius Šatkauskas
Vytautas Magnus University, The Faculty of Natural Sciences
Vileikos str. 8,
Kaunas LT 44404, Lithuania
Secretary:
Dr Paulius Ruzgys
Department of Biology
Vytautas Magnus University
K. Donelaičio str. 58,
44248, Kaunas, Lithuania
Norway
Biophysics Section, Norwegian Physical Society
President/Chair:
Dr Eirik Malinen
Department of Medical Physics,
Division of Cancer Medicine and Radiotherapy
Rikshospitalet University Hospital
Montebello,
NO-0310 Oslo, Norway
Secretary:
Poland
Polish Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Dr Kamila Środa-Pomianek
Department of Biophysics and Neuroscience
Faculty of Medicine
Wroclaw Medical University
Chałubińskiego 3 A
50-368 Wroclaw, Poland
Secretary:
Dr Joanna Grzyb
Department of Biophysics
University of Wrocław
Joliot-Curie 14a
50-383 Wrocław, Poland.
Portugal
Portuguese Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S),
Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208,
4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Secretary:
Prof. Nuno C. Santos
GIMM – Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa
Av. Prof. Egas Moniz,
1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal
Romania
Romanian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics
President/Chair:
Dr Juliánna Szakács
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy
Science and Technology of Targu-Mures,
Romania
Secretary:
Dr Monica Neagu
Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Timisoara, Romania
Russian Federation
The European Biophysical Society’s Association (EBSA) expresses its deep concern about the unexpected large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. EBSA has members in all countries who are actively or passively involved in this conflict and is concerned about the severe consequences it will have on many people’s personal lives and the scientific community across Europe.
We are convinced that all problems between countries can be solved peacefully. As scientists, we have a long tradition of working together without borders for the sake of joint success and progress. Like junior and senior scientists of all nationalities, identities, and backgrounds, who work together efficiently in research institutes and universities worldwide, EBSA biophysicists promote collaborative efforts across their European home. Backed up by a strong community, the voice of anti-war activists will be heard, be it in Ukraine, Russia, or elsewhere.
We extend our deepest sympathy to scientists from the Ukraine whose lives and research have been suddenly endangered. EBSA has introduced a bursary that could help support them in research stays in one of the EBSA member countries.
EBSA supports all scientists in Russia and elsewhere who are working together peacefully across national borders. We especially support all our colleagues and friends in Russia who have raised their voices against the war (https://trv-science.ru/2022/02/we-are-against-war/). However, we cannot work with an organization that is linked to the state that is funding the current aggression. EBSA will therefore temporarily suspend the National Scientific Council of Biophysics of the Russian Federation’s membership of EBSA. This move, directed against a Russian organization rather than individuals, is consistent with international efforts to protect scientific cooperation as an integral and critical component of a peaceful international society and a prosperous future.
Serbia
Biophysical Society of Serbia
President/Chair:
Prof. Ksenia Radotic
Department of Life Sciences, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade
Kneza Viseslava 1,
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Secretary:
Dr Jelena Rapac
Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
Studentski trg 16,
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Slovak Republic
Slovak Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Dr. Zuzana Gažová
Institute of Experimental Physics
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Watsonova 47
040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Secretary:
Dr. Alexandra Zahradníková Yr.
Biomedical Research Center
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dúbravská cesta 9
845 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Slovenia
Slovenian Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Dr Matej Kanduč
Department of Theoretical Physics, Jozef Stefan Insitute
Jamova 39,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Secretary:
Dr Matej Kanduč
Department of Theoretical Physics, Jozef Stefan Insitute
Jamova 39,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Spain
Spanish Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. José M. Valpuesta
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Darwin 3, Campus de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
28049 Madrid, Spain
Secretary:
Dr Carmen San Martin Pastrana
Department of Macromolecular Structures
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC)
C/ Darwin 3
28049 Madrid, Spain.
Sweden
Swedish Society for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
President/Chair:
Dr Ronnie Berntsson
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Umeå University
90187 Umeå, Sweden
Secretary:
Agnes Rinaldo-Matthis
The Swedish Chemical Society
Storgatan 19
11451 Stockholm, Sweden
Switzerland
Biophysics Section of Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2)
President/Chair:
Prof. Beat Fierz
EPFL SB ISIC LCBM
CH B3 485 (Batiment BM) Station 6
CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
Secretary:
Neringa Mannerheim
LS2 Scientific Officer
Türkiye
Turkish Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Işıl Albeniz
Istanbul University,
Istanbul Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Biophysics
34093 Istanbul, Turkey
Secretary:
Prof. Aslı Aykaç
Near East University, Department of Biophysics
Vocational School of Health Sciences
99138-Nicosia, Cyprus
Ukraine
Ukrainian Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Prof. Victor S. Martynyuk
Department of Biophysics and Neurobiology
Educational and Scientific Centre “Institute of Biology & Medicine”
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2 Academician Glushkov Avenue
Kyiv 03022, Ukraine
web: https://biomed.knu.ua/
Secretary:
Prof. Olga V. Tsymbalyuk
Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Educational Scientific Institute of High Technologies
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University
4-g Academician Glushkov Avenue
Kyiv 03022, Ukraine
web: https://iht.knu.ua/en/
United Kingdom
British Biophysical Society
President/Chair:
Professor Lorna Dougan
Head of Molecular and Nanoscale Physics group
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT, UK
Secretary:
Dr Maxim Molodtsov
Senior Research Fellow
Dept of Physics & Astronomy
University College London,
Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Associate Member: Iran
President/Chair:
Prof. A. A. Moosavi-Movahedi
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Tehran, Tehran
Iran Post Code: 1417614335
Secretary:
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