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.

Members

Chairperson of the AFC

  • Rachel Reynolds from 1 Jan 2025 (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Swindon)

 

Vice Chairperson

  • Maja Hellsing (Swedish Research Council, Stockholm)

 

Delegates

  • Denmark: Nicolai Narvestad (DAFHES, Copenhagen)
  • Germany: Christian Harringa (DESY, Hamburg) and
    Svenja Kruse (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn)
  • France: Elisa Briere (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Paris) and
    Stéphanie Dupuis-Lê Vàn (Direction de la Stratégie Financière, de l'Immobilier et de la Modernisation, Paris)
  • Hungary: Györgyi Kolossváryné Juhász (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: Martin Šponiar (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava) and
    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) and
    Doris Wohlfender-Bühler (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, Bern)
  • United Kingdom: Rachel Reynolds until 31 Dec 2024 (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Swindon) and
    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