Election to the IFSM Executive Board

At the General Assembly held at IMC19 in Sydney the following were elected to the IFSM Executive Board.

President
Professor Angus Kirkland

General Secretary
Professor Eva Olsson

Executive Board Members
Professor Jordi Arbiol
Professor Reinhard Rachel
Professor Virginie Serin
Professor Kamanio Chattopadhyay

Inderpreet Gill was elected to the Executive as the representative of ICMA

The executive board of ISFM sadly announces that Professor Alec Moodie passed away on the 9th July 2018.

Professor Moodie was a pioneer in electron microscopy and diffraction who is perhaps best known for his development of the multislice method widely used for the simulation of electron scattering.

IFSM has been admitted as a full union member of the International Council for Science

IFSM warmly congratulates Professors Richard Henderson, Joachim Frank and Jacques Dubochet on the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize for “developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”.