REALISING AND MANAGING
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
LONDON SPEAKERS
Professor John Wood
Professor John Wood chairs the European Research Area Board and is a former Chair of ESFRI, overseeing the first European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in…
Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS
Chris Llewellyn Smith is a theoretical physicist. He is currently Chairman of the Council of ITER (the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor) and of the Consultative…
Dr Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Lee Orbach became the United States' Department of Energy’s first Under Secretary for Science in 2006, stepping down earlier this year. He was simultaneously…
Dr Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph
Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph is Deputy-Director General for Large Research Infrastructures, Energy and Basic Research of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF). Among other…
Mário Campolargo
Mário Campolargo is Director of the 'Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures' Directorate at the European Commission, in charge of future and emerging technologies and ICT-based infrastructures for…
Thomas Barrett
Thomas Barrett is Director at the European Investment Bank (EIB), responsible for the EIB’s Structured Finance and Advisory Activities throughout the European Union and for…
Martin Cox
Martin Cox is the Assistant Director (Operations) of UKAEA Culham Division, which is responsible for the UK's fusion research and development programme, and for the…
Professor Steven Cowley
Professor Steven Cowley became Director of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Laboratory in September 2008. He received his BA from Oxford University and…
Dr Francesco Romanelli
Dr Francesco Romanelli has been EFDA-JET Associate Leader since 2006. He is responsible for the collective use of the JET experimental facilities by European fusion…
Dr Robert Aymar
Dr Bob Aymar has been Director-General of CERN since 2004 and is due to step down later this year. In January of this year he…
Professor Carlo Rizzuto
Professor Carlo Rizzuto is the current Chair of ESFRI and Chairman of Elettra, Sincrotrone Trieste ScpA.
Graduating in physics in 1961, he became Associate Professor…
Dr Liz Towns-Andrews
Dr Towns-Andrews is an experienced research scientist and has worked at the UK's national Daresbury Laboratory and within the Research Councils for over 20 years.…
Dr Anneli Pauli
Since April 2008, Dr Pauli has been the Deputy Director-General of DG Research of the European Commission, responsible for the development of the European Research…
James Elles MEP
James Elles MEP is the UK Conservative member of parliament for South-East England, and was elected to the European Parliament in 1984. He is a…
Robert-Jan Smits
Robert-Jan Smits is the Director of Directorate B (The European Research Area: Research Programmes and Capacity) at DG Research of the European Commission. Amongst his…
Sir Roy Anderson
Sir Roy Anderson FRS, FMedSci became Rector of Imperial College London in July 2008, following a 40-year association with the College. He continues to be…
Professor Rob Adam
Professor Rob Adam is Chief Executive Officer of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), South Africa's statutory nuclear technology organization. He has held this…
Claire Dougan
Claire graduated from Salford University in 1999, where she studied astronomy and space physics and carried out research into radiation damage on the exterior of…
Dr Peter Fletcher
Dr Peter Fletcher is Head of Corporate Knowledge Exchange and Head of Education, Outreach and International for the Science & Technologies Facilities Council.
He has…
Dr Hermann-Friedrich Wagner
Dr Wagner was born 1940 in Dortmund, Germany. Following school and military service, he studied Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy at the Universities in Tuebingen and…
