Council

The European XFEL Council is the supreme organ of the company in which up to two delegates represent the shareholders of each contracting party. It meets at least twice a year. The Council functions as the shareholders’ assembly and decides on important issues of company policy.

Each delegation to the Council can be accompanied by up to two advisors. The Council may decide to hear experts, invite guests and admit observers. It is led by a chairperson and a vice-chairperson who are elected from among the delegates for a period of two years and who become supra partes after their election.

Meanwhile, shareholders from six partner countries have joined the company and sent delegates to the Council. Others will follow soon.

Members

Chair of the Council

• Robert K. Feidenhans'l (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Vice Chair

• Pavol Sovák (P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia)

Delegates

• Denmark: Anders Ødegaard (Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Copenhagen)
• Germany: Helmut Dosch (DESY, Hamburg) and
  Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Bonn)
• Hungary: Dénes Lajos Nagy (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest)
• Russia: Mikhail Kovalchuk (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow) and
  Andrey Svinarenko (RUSNANO, Moscow)
• Slovak Republic: Pavol Sovák (P. J. Šafárik University, Kosice)
• Sweden: Lars Börjesson (Vetenskapsrådet - Swedish Research Council, Stockholm)
• Switzerland: Bruno Moor (State Secretariat for Education and Research, Bern)

Secretary to the Council

• Stephanie Suhr (European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany)