Results of the EANS 2025 Board members elections

Published on July 8, 2025

Dear EANS Full-Members

The EANS 2025 EANS Board members election procedure is finished.

Full Members were given the opportunity to send in their application for nominations for EANS Board members.

This year there was a call for five vacant EANS Board members positions. 

Eleven nominee - applications were received.  We would like to express appreciation to all nominees.

In total, there were 55 EANS full-members casted their votes. Not all of them used the 5 votes they could give.

The results are as follows:

Name

Votes

Mieke Deschodt

33

Tove Aminda Hanssen

32

Jekaterina Steinmiller

13

Alessandro Stievano

15

Belle Mia Loft

16

Roberta Sammut

14

Edith Lillian Roth Gjevjon

19

Martin Dichter

24

Riitta Suhonen

33

Natalja Istomina

13

Martin Müller

20

 We would like to inform you that along the election process Ann Van Hecke informed the Board about her decision to take up a new challenge in her professional career and that she will step down as a Board member. The Board and the EANS community express their gratitude to Ann as her input is very much appreciated and acknowledged.

Therefore, we did get six vacancies for Board members to be filled and based on the election results the six nominees with the most votes were elected.

Based on the election results, our re-elected Board members are Mieke DeschodtTove Aminda Hanssen, and our newly elected Board members are  Martin DichterRiitta SuhonenMartin Müller, Edith Lillian Roth Gjevjon. 

Our warm congratulations to the elected EANS Board members and thanks to all nominees for their input.