Philip Schneider studied physics at the LMU in Munich and became interested in plasma physics already during his studies. Both his diploma thesis and his PhD thesis focused on heat transport studies in ASDEX Upgrade. After receiving his PhD from LMU, he joined IPP as a postdoc and later as a tenured staff scientist. His research work started with heat transport studies in the plasma centre, then moved to the properties of the pedestal and its width in AUG, DIII-D and JET. After a detour to build a neutral particle analyser for fast ions, he finally returned to the plasma centre - without losing sight of the pedestal. Philip supports the AUG team as an experiment leader, diagnostician and radiation protection officer, and since 2018 he has been driving the planning and execution of the JET research task to study the influence of isotopes on transport and confinement during the JET DTE2 and DTE3 tritium campaigns.
Richard Anderson is head of the Stellar Standard Candles and Distances research group at EPFL’s Institute of Physics. He received his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Geneva. Prior to his current position at EPFL, he worked at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA from 2014 to 2017, funded by an SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship. From 2017 to 2020, he was an independent Research Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching b. München, Germany.
Ante Hecimovic received his PhD in Plasma Physics from Sheffield Hallam University (UK) in 2009. After that, he joined Ruhr-University Bochum (under Prof. Jörg Winter) where he established a lab for plasma diagnostics of high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS), a plasma vapour deposition method for production of thin films. The scientific findings have been assembled in a book that he co-authored entitled High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering - Fundamentals, Technologies, Challenges and Applications (Elsevier 2020). In 2017 he was one of the scientists that established the plasma for gas conversion (P4G) group at IPP, and took over the position of group leader of the P4G group. He is interested in using plasma diagnostics to develop an understanding of the dominant dissociation pathways of abundant molecules enabling the formation of value added chemicals. This knowledge is applied to tune the efficiency of molecular splitting using various plasma sources, aiming to contribute to the future chemical energy storage landscape.
Clemens Walther is Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany and Head of the Institute of Radioecology and Radiation Protection. He is president of the German-Swiss Society for Radiation Protection and Head of the Steering Board of the Competence Center Radiation Research (KVSF). Since 2015 he is a member of the German Commission for Radiation Protection. Prof. Walther’s past appointments include being Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (2019–2021), Chair of the Nuclear Chemistry Section of the German Chemical Society (2019-2022), Head of the European Network on Nuclear and Radiochemistry Education and Training (2016–2022), Member of the extended governing board of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS) (2012–2015) and Head of the mass spectrometry division of the German Physical Society (DPG) (2012–2015).
Sehila M. Gonzalez de Vicente holds a PhD in in Materials Physics by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and a MBA by the EOI Business School. She has 20 years of experience in fusion technologies and materials and is currently the Global Director of the Fusion Energy programme at Clean Air Task Force. Previously she was working at the International Atomic Energy Agency as Nuclear Fusion Physicist for more than 8 years. Before joining IAEA, she was the Responsible Officer of the Fusion Materials development programme at EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement) / Eurofusion, in Garching (Germany). In addition, she has been appointed chair of the Project Committee of the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC) project between Europe and Japan as well as vice chair of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) scientific advisory board in the research field of Energy. She has been chair of the 9th Annual Assessment of Fusion for Energy, member of the UK’s Fusion Technical Advisory Group, member of the Review Committee for the European Spallation Source Re-baseline Review as well as member of the IFMIF-DONES España Technical Advisory Committee. She is co-editor and contributing author of the book Fundamentals of Magnetic Fusion Technology. She is also the Chair of the Women in Fusion Group.
Niek Lopes Cardozo is professor of Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, where he initiated the dedicated, interdisciplinary MSc programme on nuclear fusion. Before focusing on the education and training of the ‘ITER generation’, he directed the Dutch fusion research programme and served on many European
scientific and managerial fusion committees. He received the Royal Shell prize for sustainable development and energy for his scientific work in nuclear fusion as well as his efforts in outreach.
In parallel to his work as a researcher and educator he has been active in science policy. In
the period 2017-2020 he was member of the Executive Board of NWO, the Dutch National
Research Council, chairing the Science Domain. In the preceding 7 years he chaired the Dutch
Organisation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM).
Climate change and the energy transition have been long time interests (and concerns). In recent
years his research has focused on the socio- and techno-economics of the energy transition, and
the potential role of fusion energy therein.
Ulrich Meier studied Chemistry at the Universities of Bochum, Germany and St. Andrews, Scotland. He received a PhD in Quantum Chemistry at the University of Bochum 1988. Before joining IQM Quantum Computers he worked for almost 30 years as a High Performance Computing expert for companies like Convex Computers, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and Go Virtual Germany. Ulrich’s responsibilities evolved from performance benchmarking and system architectures to marketing and market development.
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy obtained his MSc from Saint Petersburg University of Telecommunications (Russia) in 1992 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 1999. He also took courses at Stockholm University (Sweden), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Utrecht University. Tafur Monroy worked as Assistant Professor in Electro-Optical Communications at TU/e from 1999 to 2006, after which he became Associate Professor and later Full Professor at DTU Fotonik (Denmark). In the meantime, Tafur Monroy also worked at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (China), UC Berkeley (USA) and ITMO University (Russia) as visiting professor.
Tafur Monroy founded Bifrost Communications in 2015. In 2017, he returned to TU/e to become Full Professor in the Electrooptical Communication (ECO) group of the electrical engineering department and to join the Institute for Photonic Integration. He is currently the leader of the team Quantum and Terahertz Systems (QTS) within the ECO group.
Ambrogio Fasoli is Programme Manager (CEO) of the European Consortium for Fusion Energy, EUROfusion, Director of the Swiss Plasma Centre at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Delegate to the Provost of the EPFL. Ambrogio Fasoli, an honorary member of the American Physical Society, studied at the University of Milan and obtained his doctorate at the EPFL. After conducting experiments on the European JET tokamak in the United Kingdom, he became a professor at MIT in the United States, where he worked from 1997 to 2001, before being appointed professor at EPFL. From 2014 to 2020, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Nuclear Fusion of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Karl Lackner is Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics. For biographical details see https://www.ipp.mpg.de/1084867/lackner
Mikhail Gryaznevich, M.Sc., Ph.D., Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Chartered Physicist.
Born 1954 in Leningrad, received Honours Diploma in Plasma Physics at the Leningrad University in 1977 and PhD in Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion in 1988 at Ioffe Institute.
Since 1990, he has been working at the Culham Laboratory, UK, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on START, MAST and JET tokamaks, leading experimental programmes, preparing and performing experiments, designing, constructing and operating tokamak systems and diagnostics, supervising students, scientific and engineering staff. Supervised and participated in design, assembly and commissioning of START and MAST tokamaks and their systems.
Performed experiments on 21 tokamaks and stellarators, including JET, MAST, START, ST25, ST25HTS, ST40 (UK), AUG (Germany), DIII-D, NSTX, HIDRA (USA), JT-60U, TST-2, (Japan), VEST (Korea), T-10, TUMAN-3 (Russia), COMPASS, GOLEM (Czech Rep), ETE, TCABR (Brazil), STOR-2M (Canada), TJ-2 (Spain), supervising and participating in experiments. Worked for IAEA Co-ordinated Research Projects, chairing the Scientific Committee on Small Fusion Devices, co-ordinating international activities in this area, organising IAEA International Joint experiments.
Since 2009 he is the Chief Scientist and Executive Director at Tokamak Energy Ltd, working on ST path to Fusion Power and the use of the high temperature superconductors (HTS) in Fusion magnets. He was playing a leading role in construction and operations of a compact high-field spherical tokamak ST40 and in conceptual design of the ST-based Fusion Pilot Plant.
