{"id":21061,"date":"2026-01-27T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/?p=21061"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:51:14","slug":"new-leadership-appointed-for-the-radionet-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/new-leadership-appointed-for-the-radionet-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leadership Appointed for the RadioNet Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RadioNet Board has appointed <strong>Rob Beswick (University of Manchester)<\/strong> as <strong>Spokesperson<\/strong> and <strong>Agnieszka S\u0142owikowska (JIV-ERIC)<\/strong> as <strong>Vice-Spokesperson<\/strong> of the RadioNet Consortium. Their two-year terms will begin on 1 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The RadioNet community warmly congratulates Rob and Aga and wishes them every success as they take on these roles.<\/p>\n<p>The community also extends its <strong>deep gratitude to the outgoing spokesperson, Prof. Anton Zensus<\/strong>, <strong>Director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR)<\/strong>, for his exceptional leadership and long-standing service to RadioNet. Over many years, Prof. Zensus has played a central role in shaping and strengthening the RadioNet collaboration\u2014first through his involvement in the RadioNet EU projects, later as Scientific Coordinator of the OPTICON-RadioNet project, and most recently as spokesperson of the RadioNet Consortium. His vision, commitment, and ability to bring together a diverse international community have been instrumental in advancing radio astronomy cooperation across Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the transition, Prof. Zensus said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt has been a privilege to serve the RadioNet community and to work with such dedicated colleagues across Europe and beyond. I am proud of what we have achieved together and confident that RadioNet will continue to thrive under its new leadership.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RadioNet extends its sincere thanks to Prof. Zensus for his leadership and long-standing contributions and looks forward to the Consortium\u2019s continued success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RadioNet Board has appointed Rob Beswick (University of Manchester) as Spokesperson and Agnieszka S\u0142owikowska (JIV-ERIC) as Vice-Spokesperson of the RadioNet Consortium. Their two-year terms will begin on 1 February 2026. The RadioNet community warmly congratulates Rob and Aga and wishes them every success as they take on these roles. The community also extends its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21064,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions\/21064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}