The ESPR Early Career Investigators Section

Welcome to ESPR's most recently founded section – the Early Carreer Investigators (ECI). 

We are a platform for researchers in their early career enabling them to network across borders and professions. We promote educational and scientific opportunities by joining efforts and collaborating with other ESPR sections.

• Meet the Section Chair

  Greta Sibrecht, MD, PhD Neonatologist Section Chair since 2025 Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland	Daphne Klerk, MD, PhD Neonatology junior resident Section Co-Chair since 2025 Isala Hospital, Zwolle The Netherlands
  Active Section members:  Enikő Szakmár Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary BC Women's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Canada   Kerstin Jost Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden University Children´s Hospital Basel, Switzerland   Allan Jenkinson King's College London, UK   Rudolf Ascherl University of Leipzig, Germany   Emma Williams University College London, United Kingdom Marie-Louise Herrmann University Leipzig, University Hamburg, Germany
• Current projects of the section
  • Research Workshop on Neonatal Pulmonology for Early Career Investigators, for more information please visit: https://www.espr.eu/activities-projects/Research_Workshop_Neonatal_Pulmonology.php
  • Onboarding of new ESPR members in their early career and involve them in the work of the society, including preparation for CEPAS 2026
  • Social event for early career investigators at annual congresses jENS and CEPAS
• Membership

  Membership is open to ESPR members of all specialties and professions: we cordially invite students, nursing staff, physicians and midwives to apply. Applicants should be below the age of 45 at the time of application as well as within 10 years of their PhD defense or end of specialist training. Exceptions will however be considered on an individual basis.
• Upcoming meetings of the section

  Participation by interested non-members is welcome and encouraged. Please contact the ESPR Secretariat via office@espr.eu, they will be more than happy to send you meeting infos of the ECI section.

  The next in person meeting will be held during CEPAS 2026 congress.
• How to engage with us

  We welcome inquiries from engaged people of any background and at any career point (students included). Please contact the ESPR Secretariat via office@espr.eu, who will forward your request to Greta Sibrecht, the ECI Section Chair.