The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said on Wednesday it "appointed five new members to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council."
It added that these researchers "are appointed for an initial period of four years and will replace members whose second term of office expired or will expire."
The four other new members of the ERC's Scientific Council are outstanding researchers from Austria, Ireland, Luxembourg and Britain, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
The new members will take office on January 1, according to the ec.europa.eu website.
Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said the five new members of the ERC Scientific Council "will contribute, with solid scientific background, to strengthen the ERC’s role as frontier research funding organisation."
Poland's Kaczmarek works at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw. He is a professor of neurobiology "who researched the brain-mind connection," according to the European Commission.
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Source: PAP, ec.europa.eu