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| European Microscopy Society | |
|---|---|
| Name | European Microscopy Society |
| Formation | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Lausanne |
| Region served | Europe |
| Membership | National societies, institutional members, individual members |
| Leader title | President |
European Microscopy Society The European Microscopy Society is a pan-European professional association linking national societies, research institutes, and industrial partners across France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and other countries to advance microscopy techniques. It serves as a coordinating body between organizations such as Royal Microscopical Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie, French Microscopy Society, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and major laboratories like CERN and European Molecular Biology Laboratory to promote instrumentation, standards, and collaborative projects. Through biennial congresses, working groups, and training programs the society connects communities involved in light, electron, and scanning probe microscopy with stakeholders including European Commission, European Research Council, Horizon 2020, and multinational companies.
The society originated from discussions among delegates representing Royal Microscopical Society, Bundesverband Deutscher Elektronenmikroskopiker, Società Italiana di Microscopia, Sociedad Española de Microscopía, and academies such as Académie des sciences and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in the 1970s. Early milestones involved cooperation with institutions like Max Planck Society, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, and events aligned with conferences held at University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, University of Oxford, and Karolinska Institutet. Over decades the society engaged with projects funded by agencies including European Science Foundation, European Molecular Biology Organization, Wellcome Trust, and initiatives linked to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Governance comprises an executive board, regional representatives, and technical committees drawing members from University of Vienna, University of Barcelona, University of Copenhagen, University of Helsinki, University of Warsaw, and national microscopy centers such as EMBL Grenoble, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Institut Laue-Langevin and Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Advisory roles have included scientists with affiliations to Imperial College London, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Sorbonne University, and Utrecht University. Legal registration and charity arrangements mirror practices at entities like Royal Society and European University Association with audits by firms similar to PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte.
Membership categories include national societies (e.g., Polish Microscopical Society, Hungarian Electron Microscopy Society), institutional members (e.g., European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden), and individual members from universities such as Trinity College Dublin, University of Edinburgh, Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Milan. Industry partners include corporations comparable to Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bruker, Zeiss, Hitachi, and Nikon. Collaborative links extend to professional bodies like International Federation of Societies for Microscopy, European Materials Research Society, American Society for Cell Biology, and networks including eLife editorial collaborations.
Core activities encompass standardization efforts working with International Organization for Standardization, joint projects with European Standards Committee, technical working groups on cryo-techniques associated with Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, and community outreach in partnership with museums and centers such as Natural History Museum, London, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, and Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart. Programs have interfaced with research infrastructures like ESRF, ELI Beamlines, European XFEL, and consortia funded by Marie Curie, promoting interdisciplinary links to European Space Agency and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts when microscopy informs planetary science and materials research.
The society organizes biennial congresses similar in scale to International Congress of Microscopy events hosted at venues like Palais des Congrès de Paris, Palazzo dei Congressi, Messe Berlin, and collaborates on symposia with universities including University of Manchester, University of Leiden, KU Leuven, Université de Genève. Proceedings and special issues have appeared in journals related to Journal of Microscopy, Ultramicroscopy, Micron, Nature Communications, and partner publications from Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, and Elsevier. Editorial boards have included members from Cell Press, The Lancet, Science Translational Medicine, and collaborations with indexing agencies like Web of Science.
Training initiatives involve summer schools and workshops hosted at institutions such as European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, EMBL-EBI, Scripps Research Institute affiliates, and national facilities like INL and CEA Grenoble. Curriculum development draws on expertise from campuses including University of Paris, University of Rome La Sapienza, University of Groningen, and partnerships with training schemes under Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ connecting to centers like Weizmann Institute of Science and IST Austria.
The society bestows awards and travel fellowships honoring achievements akin to prizes given by Royal Society, European Research Council grants, and medals comparable to those from Microscopy Society of America and RSC. Recipients often hail from laboratories at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, EMBL Heidelberg, CNRS Laboratoire de Physique, ETH Zurich, University College London, and industrial innovators from companies similar to Siemens and Philips.
Category:Scientific societies