KNMF User Committee (KUC)

The call for candidates was open until end October 2011. See the list of candidates. Only KNMF Users who are no staff of a member organisation of the Helmholtz Association and who own at least one accepted KNMF proposal are eligible as a member of the KUC and for voting. More details can be found in the Terms of Reference of the KUC. The election took place until 27^th November (e-voting), the KUC had a first meeting (telcon) on 3^rd March 2012 and elected Sven Achenbach as Chair and Karen Lienkamp as Co-Chair.

Schedule for the Election:

• 28^th July 2011 (done)
  Information of KNMF Users
  An e-mail was sent to all KNMF Users asking them to register for the User meeting in October and informing about the election of the KNMF User Committee, and the Terms of Reference attached. All issues can be discussed in a round table session of the User Meeting. The call for candidates is open until end October 2011.
   
• 13^th-14^th October 2011 (done)
  Discussion of all issues at the User Meeting
   
• 24^th October 2011 (done)
  E-mail check and list of voters
  All KNMF Users will receive an e-mail asking them to confirm that their e-mails associated with the KNMF User accounts shall be used for the electronic voting. A second e-mail will be sent to the KNMF Users who are eligible for voting. KNMF Users who think they should be eligible but do not receive a confirmative e-mail should check with the KNMF User Office. Only KNMF Users who are no staff of a member organisation of the Helmholtz Association and who own at least one accepted KNMF proposal are eligible for voting.
   
• 26^th October 2011 NEW!
  Amendment of the Terms of Reference
  The number of candidates is exceeding our expectations. As the KNMF User Committee should represent as much as possible of the users' competences the number of seats was increased from four to six.
   
• 31^th October, 2011 (done)
  Deadline of the Call for Candidates
   
• 3^rd - 27^th November 2011 (done)
  Election (electronically)
  All KNMF Users eligible for voting received an e-mail providing a link to the online voting system. Make sure that you do not miss this e-mail - there is no other way to submit your vote. The voting system will ensure that each voting link can be used just once. No vote can be traced back to the voter. The results will be published in December 2011 here on the KNMF website.
  
  Results
  
  entitled to vote: 105
  participation: 30 (28.6%)
  votes cast: 115
  
  

  #	elected	votes
  1	Prof. Dr. Sven Achenbach University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon SK, Canada	18
  2	Dr. Jost Göttert Louisiana State University Baton Rouge LA, USA	18
  3	Prof. Dr. Florian Banhart University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, France	14
  4	Dr. Karen Lienkamp University of Freiburg Freiburg, Germany	13
  5	Prof. Dr. Lorenz Kienle University of Kiel Kiel, Germany	12
  6	Dr. Erik Bründermann Ruhr-University of Bochum Bochum, Germany	12
  	not elected
  7	Sebastian Gutsch University of Freiburg Freiburg, Germany	11
  8	Dr. Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India	9
  9	Dr. Vladimir A. Popov National Science and Technology University (MISIS) Moscow, Russia	8

• 3^rd March 2012 (done)
  User Committee established
  The elected members of the KNMF User Committee had their first meeting and electe a chairperson who will act as the main contact of the KNMF User Committee.