During the ALICE Collaboration Board meeting on 19th March 2025, the Collaboration Board will elect the next Spokesperson, who will take over from Marco van Leeuwen in January 2026.

Herewith we solicit nominations of candidates for the Spokesperson. Please send them until 15th of December, 2024 to: alice-search-committee-SP-2025@cern.ch (this address is for convenience in cc of this email).
We paste below the paragraphs from the ALICE Constitution relevant for the nomination and election processs.
Hoping for your active involvment in the nomination and election process, with our best regards,

The Search Committee:
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Anton Andronic (Chair)
Spencer Klein
Carolina Reetz
Daicui Zhou
Lokesh Kumar
Cynthia Hadjidakis
Peter Christiansen
Gergely Barnafoldi
Ramona Lea
Jana Bielcikova
Andreas Morsch

As announced at the last meeting of the ALICE Collaboration Board, the collaboration will elect a new CB Chairperson to take office on 01 July 2025.
The Search Committee was appointed to seek nominations for this major role in our collaboration and to organize the election campaign of the candidates.

The election will take place during the ALICE Collaboration Physics Week in Salermo on 6 December 2024.

We invite you to nominate ALICE members for the position of CB Chairperson. 

The nominations should be sent to the mailing list ALICE-CB-Chair-Search-Committee@cern.ch. 
The deadline is 23 September but we encourage you to submit nominations as early as possible.

The Search Committee will check the availability of the candidates and communicate their list to the CB Chairperson no later than 21 October 2024. Once the list of candidates is established, the Committee will organize the election campaign from mid-October to mid-November 2024. All candidates will have the opportunity to present a written statement and to discuss with the ALICE members during Q&A sessions. 

The details of the CB Chairperson election process can be found in the ALICE constitution. We welcome your questions, suggestions, and remarks that you can send to the same email address as the nominations.

  Best regards,

Search Committee for the next ALICE Collaboration Board Chairperson:

Barbara Erazmus (Chair)
Federico Antinori
Taku Gunji
Barbara Jacak
Lokesh Kumar
Silvia Masciocchi
Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz
Alice Ohlson
Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski
Luca Quaglia
Felix Reidt

Message from ALICE Spokesperson:

Dear Colleagues,

Since Javier Castillo’s mandate as co-chair of the Editorial Board (EB) expires at the end of July this year, I am starting to look for a new co-chair to join Francesco Prino in this function by the summer. As you know, the EB oversees and organises all aspects of our publications, in close collaboration with the Physics Working groups and Physics Coordination. While the full board is involved in reviewing the final versions of our manuscripts before they go to the collaboration, the chairs perform most of the day-to-day tasks to organise the review and publication process.

Please let me know by private e-mail if you would like to suggest someone for this role, or if you would be interested to become active in this role yourself. The role provides a unique insight into our full publication process and the opportunities to be closely involved in the dissemination of a wide variety of physics results. It also requires a significant fraction of the research time of the person accepting the role.

In order to move forward with the process, I would like to ask for your input as soon as possible, latest by the end of next week, Friday 3rd March.

Best regards,
Marco

The final deadline for the nominations is 12 December, but we encourage to submit nominations as early as possible. This deadline will allow the search committee to confirm the availability of the candidates.  The list of candidates has to be transferred to the CB chair not later than 17 January 2022. 

Once the list of candidates will be established, the committee will organise a campaign process. All candidates will have the opportunity to present  themselves with a written statement and discuss it through a Q&A session. The details of the Spokesperson election process can be found in the ALICE constitution. We welcome your questions, suggestions, and remarks that you can send at the same email address as nominations.

The Spokesperson Election Search Committee:

Edith Zinhle Buthelezi 
Alexandru Dobrin 
Marie Germain (Chair)  
Tomas Herman 
Tatiana Karavicheva 
Bedangadas Mohanty 
Yvonne Pachmayer 
Andrea Rossi 
Raimond Snellings 
Zebo Tang 
Adriana Telesca 
Anthony Timmins 

2021

The mandates of one of the two conveners of the Physics Working Groups on

• Dileptons and Quarkonia,
• Heavy Flavour,
• Light Flavour,
• Minimum Bias and Monte Carlo

are ending with 2021. Members of the PWGs are most welcome to send their nominations to the Physics Coordinator by 15 September 2021.

Editorial Board Chair  
(for a 3-year term starting on 1 January 2022)

Nominations should be sent to alice-spokesperson@cern.ch

Deadline: 15 September 2021. 

The term of one of the Editorial Board Chairs will end on 31 December 2021. Nominations are solicited for a new Editorial Board Chair for a 3-year terms starting on 1 January 2022.

The Editorial Board is responsible for the oversight and management of the publication process for all ALICE publications, conference proceedings, and internal and public technical notes, with the purpose to guarantee an efficient procedure and an effective internal quality assurance for ALICE publications in a timely manner. Details of the Editorial Board’s responsibilities and procedures are specified in the ALICE Publication Policy (Annex F of the ALICE Constitution).

The term of Deputy Run Coordinator will end on 31 December 2021. Nominations are solicited for a new Deputy Run Coordinator for a 1-year term starting on 1 January 2022.
 

The Run Coordinator (RC) term of office is 1 year renewable. The RC is in charge of the global commissioning of the ALICE detectors and systems and their operation during the physics runs. The RC coordinates with the Physics Board, the Trigger Coordinator, the Technical Board and the Management Board to optimize the experimental configuration and data-taking strategies in order to address and realise the physics goals of the Collaboration.

The Run Coordinator and the Deputy Run Coordinator are nominated by the Spokesperson, endorsed by the MB and the Collaboration Board.
 

More at the Run Coordination webpage.

A Collaboration Chair Search Committee (CB-SC) has been formed to solicit nominations for this election and further steer the process until the election.

We invite you all to nominate ALICE Members as possible candidates for the position of CB Chair by sending a mail to ALICE-CB-Chair-Nominations-2021@cern.ch which includes all the members of the CB –SC. Your nominations should reach us by 30 September. We welcome your questions, suggestions, and remarks that you can send at the same email address.

The nominees proposed by  at least two ALICE Members from two different Institutes and who have agreed to serve if elected will be included in the list of candidates. Live and recorded interviews with each of the candidates will be organized during the campaign in November.

 We are looking forward to receiving soon your nominations.
 

Alexander Akindinov
Anton Andronic
Anju Bhasin
David Dobrigkeit Chinellato
Tatsuya Chujo
Philippe Crochet
Alessandra Fantoni
Zuzana Moravcova 
Christine Nattrass
Sami Rasanen
In Kwon Yoo 
Pierre Vande Vyvre (Chair)