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ELI ERIC - European Research Infrastructure Consortium

On 30 April 2021, the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) was granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) by the European Commission. ELI ERIC will provide access to world-class high power and ultra-fast lasers for science and enable cutting-edge research in physical, chemical, materials, and medical sciences, as well as breakthrough technological innovations.

The ERIC is a specific legal form designed to facilitate the establishment and operation of Research Infrastructures of European interest. ERICs are participated by States and international organisations as members. As a main statutory mission, ELI ERIC is responsible for making the ELI Facilities available to the scientific community as a single international organisation, with unified governance and management.

The Czech Republic hosts the ELI ERIC statutory seat in Dolní Břežany, in the South of Prague, at the ELI Beamlines facility. A second facility, ELI-ALPS, is hosted by Hungary in Szeged. The Czech Republic and Hungary are joined by Italy and Lithuania as founding members, while Germany and Bulgaria are founding observers. A third ELI facility is under construction in Romania in the field of nuclear photonics and is expected to complement the current ELI ERIC facilities in the future.

The newly formed ELI ERIC is tasked with enabling scientists to access the state-of-the-art lasers at the ELI facilities. Access is open for all scientists and based on proposals evaluated by an independent panel.

The decision by the European Commission and the ERIC statutes are publicly available in the EU Official Journal.

 

General Assembly and Appointed Representatives

On 16 June 2021, the first General Assembly of ELI ERIC was held with delegates and experts from each member and observer country. Allen Weeks, former Director General of ELI DC (Delivery Consortium, an international non-profit association that supported the coordinated implementation of the ELI research facilities) was appointed the Director General of ELI ERIC, while Prof. Caterina Petrillo was appointed Chair of the General Assembly.

                                                                      
                                             Allen Weeks                                           Caterina Petrillo
                               Director General of ELI ERIC                Chair of the General Assembly


 

Delegates and Experts of the General Assembly

Founding members

Czech Republic

Lukáš Levák (Delegate)

Director of the Department for R&D, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports 

Jan Řídký (Delegate)

Vice President, Czech Academy of Sciences

Marek Vyšinka (Expert Advisor)

Head of Unit for Research Infrastructures, Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Michael Prouza (Expert Advisor)

Director of FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Hungary

Tibor Gulyás (Delegate)

Deputy State Secretary for Innovation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology 

Zsolt Fülöp (Delegate)

Chairman, National Research Infrastructure Committee

Dániel Gaál (Expert Advisor)

Ministry for Innovation and Technology

Italy

Sandro De Silvestri (Delegate)

Associate member of the “Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology” of the National Research Council

Chairman of the General Assembly of Laserlab-Europe AISBL

Alessandro Boero (Delegate)

Officer of the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research

Eugenio Nappi (Expert advisor)

Director of Research, National Institute for Nuclear Physics 

Giorgio Rossi (Expert advisor)

Professor of Physics Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano

Lithuania

Gediminas Račiukaitis (Delegate)

Head of Department of Laser Technologies at the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius

Aidas Matijošius (Delegate)

Director of the Laser Research Center in the Faculty of Physics at the Vilnius University

Arūnas Varanavičius (Expert advisor)

Chief Researcher, Laser Research Center, Vilnius University

Tadas Juknevičius (Expert advisor)

Head of Science Division at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Lithuania

Founding Observers:

Bulgaria

Milena Damyanova (Delegate)

Director of the Science Directorate, Ministry of Education and Science 

Lubomir Kovachev (Delegate)

Head of Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Germany

Eckart Lilienthal (Delegate)

Head of Division, Universe and Matter, Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Sebastian Schmidt (Delegate)

Scientific Director, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf 

Bernadette Klose (Expert advisor)

Scientific Officer, DLR Project Management Agency

Barbara Schramm (Expert advisor)

EU-Liason Officer, Head of Department Research Programmes & Inl. Projects, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf 


Administration and Finance Committee (AFC) members

Chair: László Jakab

Jan Buriánek, Ministry of education, youth and sports, Czech Republic

Petr Lukáš, Institute of Physics of Materials Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

István Szabó, National Research Development and Innovation Office, Hungary

Ileana Gimmillaro, Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy

Antonella Tajani, National Research Council, Italy

Tadas Juknevičius, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Lithuania

Svetoslav Valachev, Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria

Bernadette Klose, DLR Project Management Agency, Germany

Barbara Schramm, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

 

International Scientific and Technical Advisory Comittee (ISTAC) members

Angela Bracco, Università di Milano/National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy

Francesca Calegari, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Germany

John Collier, Central Laser Facility - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK

Colin Danson, AWE Aldermaston, UK

Marta Fajardo, Istituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

Roger Falcone, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Sylvie Jacquemot, École Polytechnique, France

Wim Leemans, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany

Claudio Masciovecchio, Elettra (Fermi), Italy

Mauro Nisoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Ulrich Schramm, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

Thomas Tschentscher, European XFEL, Germany

Arünas Varanavicius, University of Vilnius, Lithuania

Jon Zuegel, University of Rochester, USA

 

For more information, please contact:

ELI ERIC Seat:

Za Radnicí 835

Dolní Břežany, 252 41

Czech Republic

info@eli-laser.eu

https://eli-laser.eu/

 

For more information about ELI Beamlines, please visit eli-beams.eu, while you can reach the ELI NP Facility at eli-np.ro

 

 

 

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