The General Assembly and Annual meeting of the SiNANO Institute took place on May 20th 2026 in Granada (Spain), during the EUROSOI-Ulis conference. After a look back on the activities that took place since the last General Assembly, the SiNANO Institute has elected a new governing board.

Giorgos Fagas from Tyndall National Institute and Valerya Kilchytska from Université catholique de Louvain have been re-elected respectively as Director and Deputy Director of the SiNANO Institute.

A new Governing Board was also elected with 4 new persons appointed:
– Vihar Georgiev – University of Glasgow
– Irina Ionica – Grenoble INP
Sayani Majumdar – Tampere University
Robert Mroczyński – Warsaw University of Technology
– Luca Selmi – IUNET/University of Modena

Mikaël Östling from KTH resumes his role as Governing Chair.

Finally, Francis Balestra remains Director Emeritus, together with Enrico Sangiorgi.

Thank you all for your trust and investment in SiNANO institute, and congratulations! We wish to thank him again for the past years at the head of SiNANO.

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