are responsible for scientific and technical matters, in particular:
- the organization of the design, construction, commissioning and operation of all undulator systems for the European XFEL
- defining the diagnostics requirements for commissioning and operation of the undulator systems
- the liaison with the European XFEL Machine Advisory Committee and the DESY Accelerator Division
- the design, construction, commissioning and operation of the photon beam systems (including optics, beam transport, diagnostics and detectors), the instrumentation and the experiment environment (including optical lasers)
- the establishment of the scientific programme of the European XFEL
- the liaison with the European XFEL Scientific Advisory Committee
- follow-up of civil engineering
- beamline and experiment controls
- overall data acquisition
- technical groups (including mechanical and electronics workshops, technical support and computing services/IT) and
- development and administration of a user programme for the facility