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 29/04/2024), 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)
- Roman Mankowsky (Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Photon Science Division (PSD), Villigen, Switzerland)
- 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
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Zahirul Islam (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA) Chair
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Alessandra Benuzzi (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, LULI, Paris, France)
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Fabienne Duc (Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI - CNRS), Toulouse, France)
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Wendell T. Hill (IPST, Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
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Paul Loubeyre (CEA, Arpajon, France)
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Stuart Mangles (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)
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Emma McBride (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
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Sam M. Vinko (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
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Luca Volpe (Centro de Láseres Pulsados, CLPU, Salamanca, Spain)
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Matt Zepf (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Former Members:
- Michael Armstrong (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA)
- Guillaume Fiquet (IMPMC, Paris, France)
- Mattias Marklund (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
- David Neely (Central Laser Facility, Didcot, United Kingdom)
- Paul Neumayer (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)
- 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)
- Ryszard Sobierajski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
- Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
MID Proposal Review Panel
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Christian Gutt (University of Siegen, Germany) Chair
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Rajmund Mokso (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) Vice-Chair
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Katrin Amann-Winkel (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany)
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Marco Cammarata (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility / Université de Rennes, France)
- Tais Gorkhover (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany)
- David Keen (Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom)
- Claire Laulhé (Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides CNRS, France)
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Tim Salditt (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
- Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)
- Can Yildirim (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)
- Diling Zhu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA)
Former Members:
- Paul Fuoss (LCLS, Stanford, USA)
- David Le Bolloc’h (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France)
- Henrik Lemke (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)
- Giulio Monaco (University of Padova, Italy)
- Bridget Murphy (Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany)
- Anton Plech (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 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
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Jan Lüning (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie HZB, Germany) Chair
- Camila Bacellar Cases da Silveira (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland)
- Elisa Biasin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate (FCSD), United States)
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Nicholas Brookes (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)
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Martina Dell’Angela (CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Trieste, Italy)
- Simo J. Huotari (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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Steven Johnson (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
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Alexey Kimel (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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Jan-Erik Rubensson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Emma Springate (Artemis STFC Central Laser Facility, United Kingdom)
Former Members:
- Manuel Guizar-Sicairos (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland)
- Philip Hofmann (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
- Maya Kiskinova (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
- 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
- Cameron Kewish (Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Australia) Chair
- Vice-Chair N.N.
- Gisela Brändén (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Virginie Chamard (Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France)
- Jacques-Philippe Colletier (Institut de Biologie Structurale J.P. Ebel, IBS, France)
- Francesco De Carlo (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA)
- Emmanouil Manolis Gavaises (City, University of London, London, United Kingdom)
- 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)
- Alexander Rack (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)
Former Members:
- Sébastien Boutet (Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
- Gyula Faigel (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
- 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)
- Jozef Uličný (Safarik University Košice, Slovak Republic)
- Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie HZB, Germany)
SQS Proposal Review Panel
- Eckart Rühl (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Chair
- Olle Björneholm (Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala, Sweden)
- John D. Bozek (Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- Carlo Callegari (Elettra-Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)
- Alexander Kuleff (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
- Alicia Palacios (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Química, Madrid, Spain)
- Thomas Pfeifer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
- Daniel Rolles (Kansas State University, Department of Physics, United States)
- Daniela Rupp (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Olga Smirnova (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)
- Frank Stienkemeier (University of Freiburg, Germany)
- 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)
- Maciej Kozak (SOLARIS, Kraków, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
- Jon Marangos (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)
- Stacey L. Sorensen (Lund University, Sweden)
- Linda Young (Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA)
- Beata Ziaja-Motyka (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany)
For specific questions about the composition of the Proposal Review Panels, please contact useroffice@xfel.eu.