Committees
ISEK values the contributions of our diverse membership and acknowledges that all members represent the future of our science and society. The Society encourages all members to help advance ISEK by taking an active role on a committee.
The Council is committed to being an inclusive organization that encourages diversity. We welcome involvement of members from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds.
Browse the listing below for further information on each committee and application process.
Communications Committee
The committee serves to coordinate communications between ISEK, its membership, and the public on matters central to the Society’s vision and mission.
Committee Initiatives
- Website: The committee is currently putting the last touches to our revamped website.
- Social media: We aim to further our presence on social media to engage trainees, researchers and other professionals and build the ISEK community.
Corrado Cescon
University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland
Emma Hodson-Tole
Manchester Metropolitan
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Committee
To facilitate an equitable association, that recognizes diversity and inclusion, and emphasizes quality of life in event planning and dissemination activities.
Committee Initiatives
We will continue our work on encouraging and supporting diversity in all aspects of ISEK and the ISEK Congress. More specifically, we will:
- Develop initiatives to support members who may otherwise not have a chance to attend our conferences or contribute to workshops and discussions
- Organization of talks or tweets for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the International Day of Older Persons
- See our strategic intent and diversity statement here
Niels Brouwer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Madeleine Lowery
University College Dublin
Silvia Muceli
Chalmers University of Technology
Kylie Tucker
University of Queensland
Early Career Researcher Committee (ECR)
The Early Career Researcher Committee represents the students and early career researchers of ISEK. The committee was formed through a recent call for participation to all student and postdoc Society members, which received an outstanding response from the community, reinforcing the timeliness of this effort.
Committee Initiatives
- Targeted ECR Newsletter: The quarterly newsletter focuses on information pertinent to PhD students, postdocs and other early career researchers.
- DeLuca symposium: From 2023, the ECR committee is responsible for organizing the DeLuca symposium. This symposium will take place in ~July on the “off-conference year”. The organization of this symposium will be supported by our ECR DeLuca award winners from the previous ISEK congress. Our 2022 DeLuca award winners were: Manuela Besomi, Marco Ghislieri and Bryan Schlink.
- Communications: Watch this space as our ECR committee works with our Communications Committee to ensure that our communication with members and beyond is efficient and effective.
Elisa Romero Avila
RWTH Aachen University
Student
Simon Avrillon
Imperial College London
Early Career Researcher
Manuela Besomi
The University of Queensland
Early career researcher
(on leave)
Niels Brouwer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Early career researcher
Josh Carr
Texas Christian University
Early career researcher
Ricardo Mesquita
Early Career Researcher
Phoebe Ng
The University of Queensland
Student
Gregory Pearcey
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Early career researcher
Andy Sanderson
Manchester Metropolitan University
Early career researcher
Member Services Committee
The Membership Committee cooperates with the ISEK Council to develop and maintain programs to ensure that ISEK brings value to all its members.
Committee Initiatives
- ISEK JEK Tutorials: The committee organizes the Tutorials which are scheduled each year in October and April.
- Repository of teaching materials: We are in the process of creating a repository of teaching materials available to the ISEK community.
- Technical committee: We are starting a committee to inform the research direction of ISEK and to support scientific activity in selected areas of interest to the ISEK membership.
Manuela Besomi
The University of Queensland
(on leave)
François Hug
Université Côte d’Azur
Ricardo Mesquita
Early Career Researcher
Minoru Shinohara
Taian Vieira
Politecnico di Torino
Organization Committee
The Organization Committee reviews and keeps all governing documents up to date, and coordinates the grant writing efforts to support ISEK activities such as the Congress. The committee also ensures coordination across all other ISEK committees.
Laurent Bouyer
Laval Université
Madeleine Lowery
University College Dublin
Eric Perreault
Northwestern University
Kylie Tucker
University of Queensland
Kohei Watanabe
Chukyo University
Technical Committee
The purpose of the ISEK Technical Committee (TC) is to inform the research direction of ISEK and to support scientific activity in selected areas of interest to the ISEK membership. The TC tracks scientific developments, encourages innovation and facilitates education in areas related to electrophysiology and kinesiology. The committee has a particular focus on emerging areas at the intersection of electrophysiology and kinesiology and related disciplines and works together with the ISEK council to advance knowledge in a specialized area or on a specific topic. The TC reports to the ISEK Member Services Committee.
Committee Initiative
The Technical Committee may lead the dissemination of knowledge on a specific topic or facilitate integration of different scientific activities under a selected theme. This may include leading or supporting aspects of the scientific program of the ISEK Congress or other activities during the period between conferences such as webinars, tutorials, drafting of technical specifications, working papers etc.
Francesco Negro (Chair)
University of Brescia
Technical Committee Chair