Verica Trstenjak elected vice-president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

April 02, 2025

Verica Trstenjak, external scientific member of the Institute, has been elected as one of the three vice-presidents serving on the presidium of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). She has been a member of the Academy for more than five years.

Based in Salzburg, EASA was founded in 1990 as a learned society. The politically independent non-governmental organization sees itself as an interdisciplinary, transnational network dedicated to the promotion of scientific and social progress. Its approximately 2,000 members, including 38 Nobel Prize winners, are characterized by their outstanding achievements in the fields of science, art, and governance. The new presidium on which Trstenjak will serve was elected at the annual general assembly on 7 March 2025 and will take office on 24 November 2025.

Prof. Dr. Verica Trstenjak teaches at the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna and at the University of Ljubljana, among other institutions. From 2004 to 2006 she was a judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Union and from 2006 to 2012 advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. She is a founding member of the European Law Institute, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and was, until June 2024, a substitute member of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission for Democracy and Law. She has been associated with the Hamburg Institute for many years as a visiting scholar.