REALISING AND MANAGING
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
HAMBURG 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…
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…
Professor Helmut Dosch
Professor Helmut Dosch has just taken up his new role as Chair of the Board of Directors of DESY. He was until recently Director of…
Dr Jacek Gierliñski
Dr Jacek Gierliñski was educated in Poland where he gained a masters degree (1968) in civil engineering and a doctorate (1975) in technological sciences. He…
Professor Wouter Los
Dr Wouter Los is currently Project Leader of LifeWatch, the proposed e-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity research. By training a theoretical chemist, he has…
Nadezda Witzanyova
Nadezda Witzanyová is a senior official in the Department of International Cooperation in Research and Development within the Czech Republic Ministry of Education, Youth and…
Steven Krauwer
Steven Krauwer is the coordinator of the ESFRI preparatory phase project CLARIN, aimed at the construction of a language resources and technology infrastructure to serve…
Karl Witte
Karl Witte received his diploma in physics from the University of Hamburg in 1969. He worked as executive secretary of the department of physics at…
Professor Mike Dunne
Professor Mike Dunne is Director of STFC's Photon Science Department. He is responsible for the leadership of a coherent science strategy for the exploitation of…
Professor Massimo Altarelli
Professor Altarelli received his PhD at the University of Rome in 1971. He was subsequently a visiting scientist at the University of Rochester and at…
Dr Reinhard Brinkmann
Dr Reinhard Brinkmann is Head of the Accelerator Division and a member of the Directorate at DESY. Having received his PhD from the Free University…
Professor Andrea Cavalleri
Andrea Cavalleri received a Laurea degree and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1994 and 1998. He susbequently became…
Professor Joachim Mnich
Professor Joachim Mnich is Head of the Particle and Astroparticle Physics Division and a member of the Directorate at DESY. He studied physics and electrical…
Dr Andreas Schwarz
Dr Andreas Schwarz received his PhD in 1981 from the University of Hamburg, working as an experimental particle physicist at the DORIS storage ring at…
Dr Dieter Trines
Dr Dieter Trines is former head of the accelerator division and a former member of the DESY directorate. He studied physics at the Universities of…
Dr Thomas Tschentscher
Dr Thomas Tschentscher studied physics at the Technical University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld and then at the University of Hamburg. He received his PhD in 1993 as…
Dr Matthias Wilmanns
Dr Matthias Wilmanns received his PhD from the University of Basel in 1990. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, Los Angeles. In…
Professor Edgar Weckert
Professor Edgar Weckert is Head of the Photon Science Division and a member of the Directorate at DESY. He studied physics and material sciences at…
Professor Achilleas Mitsos
Achilleas Mitsos was born in 1947. He holds a University degree (1970) from ASOEE (Athens School for Economics and Business Studies), a Masters in economics…
Hervé Pero
Hervé Pero is Head of Unit for Research Infrastructures within the Directorate General for Research within the European Commission.
An engineer by training (National School…
Professor Brian Foster
Brian Foster was born in Crook Co. Durham, U.K. in 1954. He studied Physics at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London and graduated from there…
Dr Erich Rome
Dr.-Ing. Erich Rome is a senior researcher at Fraunhofer IAIS and is a project manager of the Adaptive Reflective Teams (ART) department. He received a…
Professor Albrecht Wagner
Dr Albrecht Wagner is the former Chairman of the Directorate of DESY in Hamburg. He was previously Professor of Experimental Physics and Research Director at…
Mila Bas Sanchez
Mila Bas Sanchez works as a legal advisor for the European Commission in the Research Directorate. With a Masters degree in European Law (Univ. Carlos…
