Kai A. Konrad completed his doctoral studies in economics in 1990 and habilitated in 1993 at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich. From 1994 to 2009, he was a university professor in the Department of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, and from 2001 to 2009, he was also the director of the Department of Market Processes and Governance at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Since 2009, he has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, since 2011 he is serving as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. Since 1999, Konrad has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance, serving as its chair from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel in 2023, primarily for his ‘fundamental theoretical contributions to the economic analysis of strategies in tournaments with applications in industrial economics as well as in political economy’.
Sam Davis started work at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK, working first on materials and magnet development and then on tokamak upgrade projects.
He joined the JT-60SA project in 2010, working for Fusion for Energy in Garching, Germany. He first followed the manufacturing of the cryostat base on which the tokamak rests and its delivery from Spain. He was then fully occupied in the design, manufacturing and assembly of the toroidal field magnet. After launching a range of enhancement projects he moved to Naka, Japan in 2020.
During 2020-2023 he supported the integrated commissioning of the JT-60SA tokamak and the modifications necessary to reach the first plasma. He was appointed as JT-60SA Project Leader in December 2023.
Prof. Matthias Sutter is Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, and also Professor for Experimental Economics at the University of Cologne and the University of Innsbruck. Matthias Sutter, born in 1968, received his doctorate in economics from the University of Innsbruck in 1999, where he also habilitated in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he was C3-professor at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena. Subsequent positions included chairs at the University of Cologne (2005-2006, 2015-2017), the University of Innsbruck (2006-2013) and the European University Institute in Florence (2013-2014). From July 2007 to June 2013, he was also a part-time professor at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2017, Sutter is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and leads the experimental economics group. He is still part-time professor at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck where he teaches experimental economics. He has published in all Top-5 journals in economics, but also in “Science”, “Nature Communications” or “PNAS”. Sutter also writes popular science books, like “Behavioral Economics for Leaders” (2023). His German books “Die Entdeckung der Geduld” (2018) and “Der menschliche Faktor” (2022) both hit the Austrian bestseller lists.
