Samaya Nissanke elected GRAPPA spokesperson

Samaya Nissanke has been elected as the new spokesperson for the Gravitation and AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) centre of excellence at the University of Amsterdam. Nissanke is the successor of Gianfranco Bertone, who was recently appointed director of EuCAPT.

Nissanke is currently an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. She is a joint faculty member at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy and the Institute for High Energy Physics, and is already a member of GRAPPA.

Nissanke’s predecessor, Gianfranco Bertone, said: ‘I am sure that thanks to her scientific excellence, enthusiasm and leadership, Samaya will shine in this role. I look forward to seeing GRAPPA further strengthening its scientific impact and establishing its presence at the local, national and international level under her leadership.’