Administrative and Finance Committee

The Administrative and Finance Committee is a committee of the European XFEL Council. It is charged with the general responsibility of advising the council on all matters of administrative issues and of financial management.

The Shareholders of each Contracting Party together have a maximum of two representatives to the AFC.

The Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson of the AFC are appointed by the Council for a fixed period of two years. With their election, the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson become supra partes and leave their delegations. The Chairperson may invite guests and/or experts to the AFC meetings, provided that all AFC members have been informed beforehand.

Chair and Vice Chair

Chairperson of the AFC

  • Rachel Reynolds (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Swindon)

Vice Chairperson

  • Maja Hellsing (Swedish Research Council, Stockholm)

 

Delegates

Denmark

  • Nicolai Narvestad (Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science (DAFHES), Copenhagen)

Germany

  • Christian Harringa (DESY, Hamburg) and
  • Svenja Kruse (Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, Bonn)

France

  • Elisa Briere (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Paris) and
  • Sana Horchani (Direction de la Stratégie Financière, de l'Immobilier et de la Modernisation, Paris)

Hungary

  • András Siegler (National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), Budapest)

Italy

  • Veronica Buccheri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome) and
  • Antonella Tajani (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome)

Poland

  • Michał Rybiński (Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Warsaw) and
  • Dagmara Milewska (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Otwock-Świerk)

Russia

  • Valeriy Nosik (NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow)

Slovak Republic

  • Tomáš Michálek (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava)

Sweden

  • Maja Hellsing (Swedish Research Council, Stockholm)

Switzerland

  • Peter Allenspach, (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen)

United Kingdom

  • Georgina Freeman (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Swindon)


Observers

Spain

  • Guadalupe de Córdoba Lasunción (Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, Madrid) and
  • Javier Echávarri Delmas (Centre for the Development of Industrial Tecnólogo (CDTI), Madrid)

 

Secretary to the AFC

  • Uta Sprenger (European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany)
     

Vice Secretary to the AFC

  • Cristina Ramirez Palencia (European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany)
     

AFC Meetings