Four new members of the RES Users’ Committee (CURES) were appointed last Wednesday 5 March. CURES aims to provide advice to RES coordinators and technicians to promote improvements in RES services. Also, this Committee voices users’ suggestions and concerns. For the next two years, the Chair of the CURES will be Dr. Javier Junquera, from the University of Cantabria. He will replace the former Chair Dr. Carme Rovira.
CURES was created on 9 February 2010 and it is composed of eight scientist, two from each RES area. All its members are PIs (Principal Investigators) and users of RES resources. According to the Committee regulations, four new members and the Chair are appointed every two years.
RES users can contact CURES to report its concerns and complains about RES services and procedures through the online form on the intranet. CURES members meet regularly to assess users’ messages and provide feedback to RES coordinators.
The new CURES composition is:
- Representatives of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering
- Javier Junquera (Dpt. de Ciencias de la Tierra y FÃsica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria) - Chair of the CURES
- José Román (Dpt. Sistemes Informà tics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València)
- Representatives of Chemistry and Material Sciences
- Marcel Swart (Institut de QuÃmica Computacional i Catálisi, Universitat de Girona)
- MarÃa Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano (Instituto de Catálisis y PetroleoquÃmica ICP-CSIC)
- Representatives of Biomedicine and Life Sciences
- Antoni Planas (Dpt. de Bioenginyeria, Universitat Ramon Llull)
- Gianni de Fabritiis (Computational Biophysics Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Representatives of Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
- Miguel Angel Aloy (Grupo de AstrofÃsica Relativista, Universitat de València)
- Daniel Stich (Instituto Andaluz de GeofÃsica, Universidad de Granada)