On March 30, 2021 University of Strasbourg (Unistra) Management, a team of 15 vice-presidents, including 10 new members, was elected by the Unistra Congress.

We congratulate Prof. Jean-Marc Planeix, the scientific expert and coordinator of UFAZ, to be elected for the position of Vice President of Academic Partnership and Governance of the University of Strasbourg.

Besides, we also congratulate Irini Tsamadou-Jacoberger, a professor at the Faculty of Languages, who has made an exceptional contribution to the development of UFAZ, for being re-elected as Vice President for European and International Relations.

Jean-Marc Planeix is ​​a university professor at the University of Strasbourg. Laureate of the Agrégation de chimie, he holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Montpellier and completed his HDR in 2001 in Strasbourg.

His research activity is focused on coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and the development of molecular materials using a "molecular tectonics" approach. He supervised 10 theses and is co-author of 55 publications. 

He was involved in the coordination and representation of science faculties at the national and European level and has held the responsibilities of Vice-President and since 2019, President of the Conference of Directors of UFR Sciences (CDUS). Since November 2020, he has been "Strategic Coordinator" of the EPICUR Alliance of European Universities on behalf of the President of Unistra. He is an officer in the Order of Academic Palms.

Irini Tsamadou-Jacoberger, university professor and director of Oriental Studies Group (GEO) at Unistra, is also responsible for the teaching of the 'Languages and interculturality' degree. She received her doctorate in linguistics from the University of Paris VII with a dissertation on the genitive in modern Greek. She specializes in general linguistics, Greek, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. Her research focuses on modern Greek linguistics (especially genitive, noun, modality), the Greek language and its didactics, as well as contact linguistics.