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Scientific Advisory Committee

The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) advises the European XFEL Council and the Management Board in scientific matters of fundamental importance.

The SAC provides recommendations on all scientific, technical and policy issues that bear on

  • a successful build-up of the scientific capacity of the European XFEL Facility,
  • its full and effective utilization, and on
  • future developments required to maintain the scientific and technical productivity of the Facility at the highest possible level.

Members

  • Rafael Abela (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)   Chairman

  • Patrick Audebert (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
  • Dimitrios Charalambidis (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, Greece)
  • Stefan Eisebitt (TU Berlin, Germany)
  • Gyula Faigel (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Salvador Ferrer (CELLS/ALBA, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain)
  • Jerome Hastings (SLAC, Stanford, USA)
  • Sine Larsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Joseph Nordgren (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
  • Vladislav Ya. Panchenko (Institute on Laser and Information Technologies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
  • Aymeric Robert (LCLS, Stanford, USA)
  • Karel Saksl (Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic)
  • Francesco Sette (ESRF, Grenoble, France)
  • David Stuart (University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
  • Edgar Weckert (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)

Secretary to the SAC

  • Gianluca Geloni (European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany)