Proposal Review Panels

Access to beamtime for non-proprietary research at European XFEL is granted on the basis of peer review of scientific proposals.

Access to beamtime for non-proprietary research at European XFEL is granted on the basis of peer review of scientific proposals. The Proposal Review Panels (PRPs) are in charge of the evaluation of the scientific merit of these proposals. At present (last update 28 November 2023), the following panels are in activity:

 

FXE Proposal Review Panel

  • Wojciech Gawelda (UAM Madrid, Spain) Chair
  • Paola Luches (Istituto di Nanoscienze, National Research Council, Modena, Italy) Vice-Chair
  • Shin-ichi Adachi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KeK, Japan)
  • Kristoffer Haldrup (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark)
  • Maciej Lorenc (Université de Rennes, France)
  • James McCusker (Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States)
  • Robert Schoenlein (SLAC, California, United States)
  • György Vankó (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Julia Weinstein (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

 

Former Members:

  • Federico Boscherini (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Majed Chergui (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Frank de Groot (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
  • Thomas Elsässer (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)
  • Jerome Hastings (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA)
  • Adela Muñoz Páez (University of Sevilla, Spain)
  • Sylvain Ravy (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France)
  • Villy Sundström (Lund University, Sweden) Chairman
  • Jakub Szlachetko (SOLARIS, Kraków, Poland)
  • Alexander Soldatov (Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) (membership suspended from May 2022)
  • Metin Tolan (Technical University Dortmund, Germany)
  • Philippe Wernet (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Michael Wulff (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)

 

HED Proposal Review Panel

  • Ryszard Sobierajski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) Chair
  • Michael Armstrong (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA)
  • Alessandra Benuzzi (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, LULI, Paris, France)
  • Zahirul Islam (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA)
  • Paul Loubeyre (CEA, Arpajon, France)
  • Stuart Mangles (Imperial College, London, UK)
  • Emma McBride (Queen's University Belfast, Ireland)
  • Paul Neumayer (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)
  • Luca Volpe (Centro de Láseres Pulsados, CLPU, Salamanca, Spain)
  • Matt Zepf (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

 

Former Members:

  • Guillaume Fiquet (IMPMC, Paris, France)
  • Mattias Marklund (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • David Neely (Central Laser Facility, Didcot, United Kingdom)
  • Norimasa Ozaki (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
  • Sakura Pascarelli (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France) Chairwoman
  • Sergey Pikuz (Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Moscow, Russia) (membership suspended from May 2022)
  • Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

 

MID Proposal Review Panel

  • Giulio Monaco (University of Padova, Italy) Chair
  • David Le Bolloc’h (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France) Vice-Chair
  • Katrin Amann-Winkel (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany)
  • Marco Cammarata (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility / Université de Rennes, France)
  • Tais Gorkhover (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany)
  • Christian Gutt (University of Siegen, Germany)
  • David Keen (Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom)
  • Rajmund Mokso (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
  • Anton Plech (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
  • Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)
  • Diling Zhu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA)

 

Former Members:

  • Paul Fuoss (LCLS, Stanford, USA)
  • Henrik Lemke (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)
  • Bridget Murphy (Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany)
  • Ian Robinson (University College, London, United Kingdom)
  • Beatrice Ruta (CNRS / University of Lyon 1, France)
  • Anatoly Snigirev (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia) (membership suspended from May 2022)
  • Michael Sprung (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
 

 

SCS Proposal Review Panel

  • Jan Lüning (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie HZB, Germany) Chair
  • Camila Bacellar Cases da Silveira (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland)
  • Nicholas Brookes  (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)
  • Manuel Guizar-Sicairos (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland)
  • Simo J. Huotari (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Steven Johnson (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
  • Alexey Kimel (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Maya Kiskinova (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
  • Jan-Erik Rubensson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Emma Springate (Artemis STFC Central Laser Facility, United Kingdom)

 

Former Members:

  • Philip Hofmann (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
  • Claudio Masciovecchio (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
  • Ian McNulty (MAX IV Laboratory, Lund, Sweden)
  • Marcin Sikora (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland)
 

 

SPB/SFX Proposal Review Panel

  • Gyula Faigel (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) Chair
  • Cameron Kewish (Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Australia) Vice-Chair
  • Sébastien Boutet (Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
  • Gisela Brändén (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • Virginie Chamard (Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France)
  • Jacques-Philippe Colletier (Institut de Biologie Structurale J.P. Ebel, IBS, France)
  • Cinzia Giannini (Institute of Cristallography, National Research Council, Bari, Italy)
  • Alexander Korsunsky (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  • Robin Owen (Diamond Light Source, United Kingdom)
  • Arwen Pearson (University of Hamburg, Germany)
  • Jozef Uličný (Safarik University Košice, Slovak Republic)
  • Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie HZB, Germany)

 

Former Members:

  • Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  • Inari Kursula (University of Bergen, Norway, and University of Oulu, Finland)
  • Sine Larsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Victor Lamzin (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany)
  • Thomas Möller (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
  • Christian Riekel (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)
  • Christian Schroer (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)

 

SQS Proposal Review Panel

  • Eckart Rühl (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Chairman
  • John D. Bozek (Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
  • Carlo Callegari (Elettra-Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)
  • Maciej Kozak (SOLARIS, Kraków, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
  • Alexander Kuleff (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Thomas Pfeifer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Daniela Rupp (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Olga Smirnova (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)
  • Stacey L. Sorensen (Lund University, Sweden)
  • Frank Stienkemeier (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Linda Young (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA)
  • Amelle Zair (King's College, London, United Kingdom)

 

Former Members:

  • John Costello (Dublin City University, Ireland)
  • Alexei Grum-Grzhimailo (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) (membership suspended from May 2022)
  • Jon Marangos (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)
  • Beata Ziaja-Motyka (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany)

 

For specific questions about the composition of the Proposal Review Panels, please contact useroffice@xfel.eu.

Proposal Review Panel Terms of Reference

  • Terms of Reference document (02 December 2022)

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