Each delegation to the Council can be accompanied by up to two advisors. The Council may decide to hear experts, invite guests and admit observers. It is led by a chairperson and a vice-chairperson who are elected from among the delegates for a period of two years and who become supra partes after their election.
Chair and Vice Chair
Chair of the Council
- Maria Faury (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France)
Vice Chair of the Council
- Martin Meedom Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark)
Delegates
Denmark
- Morten Scharff (Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science)
France
- Marie-Hélène Mathon (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)
- Sylvain Ravy (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Germany
- Volkmar Dietz (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)
- Helmut Dosch (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
Hungary
- Györgyi Juhász (National Research, Development and Innovation Office)
- György Vankó (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
Italy
- Carlo Pagani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Corrado Spinella (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Poland
- Mateusz Gaczyński (Ministry of Education and Science)
- Ryszard Sobierajski (Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Russia
- Mikhail Kovalchuk (National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute")
Slovak Republic
- Karel Saksl (Institute of Materials Research, Academy of Science)
- Pavol Sovák (P.J. Šafárik University)
Sweden
- Lars Börjesson (Chalmers University of Technology)
- Johan Holmberg (Vetenskapsrådet - Swedish Research Council)
Switzerland
- Gabriel Aeppli (Paul Scherrer Institute)
- Laurent Salzarulo (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Helen Beadman (UK Research and Innovation)
- James Naismith (Rosalind Franklin Institute)
Observers
Spain
- Guadalupe C. de Córdoba Lasunción (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)
- Rodolfo Miranda (IMDEA Nanociencia / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Advisors
Germany
- Christian Harringa / Wim Leemans (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
- NN (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)
Italy
- Federico Boscherini (University of Bologna)
- Daniele Sertore (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Poland
- Zbigniew Gołębiewski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
- Tomasz Leżański (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Slovak Republic
- Martin Šponiar (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport)
Switzerland
- Doris Wohlfender-Bühler (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Rachel Reynolds (United Kingdom Research and Innovation)
Secretary to the Council
- Malte Laub (European XFEL GmbH)
Vice Secretary to the Council
- Friederike Itzen (European XFEL GmbH)