Scientific Expert Group
Purpose: The SEG supports the ICNIRP Commission in fulfilling its mission and specific tasks in the work plan. Depending on their expertise and availability, SEG members are invited to join specific Working Groups set up to complete a work plan item.
Composition: The Scientific Expert Group is composed of experts selected on the basis of their outstanding scientific credentials in a discipline relevant to NIR such as biology, epidemiology, physics and engineering, bio-physics, or medicine and the ICNIRP work plan tasks. They carry out their work for the Commission on a voluntary basis. In doing so they do not represent either their country of origin or their institute. ICNIRP SEG members are required to declare any personal interests in relation to the activities of ICNIRP. SEG members' declarations are available on the ICNIRP website.
Election: SEG members are elected from nominations by members of the Commission, or the Executive Council of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), the IRPA Associate Societies, national and international public radiation protection bodies following a call for nominations. The election takes place in general every four years at the beginning of a new term of office and any time there is a need for additional support.