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CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer (l) with science commissioner Moedas, in April (Photo: European Commission)

One Barroso-era advisor left on new EU science body

The European Commission has decided that only one member of a discontinued informal scientific advisory body will be part of its new 'high level group' of science advisers, it announced on Tuesday (10 November).

The announcement of the seven members of the team, heading the so-called Scientific Advice Mechanism, comes just over a year after Jean-Claude Juncker took over the presidency of the Commission from Jose Manuel Barroso.

Juncker decided to end the post of a single Chief Sci...

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