XFEL: Change in the DESY Board of Directors
Change in the DESY Board of Directors
Beate Heinemann is the new Chairwoman of the DESY Board of Directors. (Photo: DESY, Jörg Müller)
Beate Heinemann has been DESY’s Director of Particle Physics since February 2022. She studied and completed her PhD at the University of Hamburg until 1999 and worked as a researcher at the University of Liverpool. In 2006, she moved to the University of California, Berkeley as Professor of Experimental Physics and worked at the multidisciplinary Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2016, she returned to Germany as Senior Scientist at DESY and Professor at the University of Freiburg.
Prof Thomas Feurer, Chairman of the European XFEL Management Board: “The close partnership with DESY is a cornerstone of our success. We look forward to working with Beate Heinemann and wish her a good start and every success in her new position!”
On behalf of the Management Board and the staff of European XFEL, Feurer thanked the outgoing Chairman Helmut Dosch for the many years of trustful cooperation: “Helmut Dosch has set the course with great commitment, foresight and passion and has played a major role in the development of the European XFEL from the first steps to successful user operation. Thanks to the close and trustful cooperation between DESY and European XFEL, we were able to successfully master all challenges together – from construction to commissioning and ongoing operation.”
As Chairman of the DESY Directorate, Helmut Dosch was a driving force behind the construction of the world's largest X-ray laser. As a member of the European XFEL Council, the highest governing body of the international user facility, he provided important impulses during the planning and construction phase and was involved in key decisions. The physicist has been at the helm of DESY since 2009. Before that, he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Materials Research and held a chair at the University of Stuttgart.
To the DESY press release
