Project committees

ATTRACT Phase 1

Project Advisory Committee

ATTRACT’s Project Advisory Committee (PAC) comprises leading representatives of international public and private organisations

The Committee tender’s strategic advice on scaling up the ATTRACT Project. In providing such advice, the PAC may establish an open dialogue with public and private stakeholders, including high-level policy-makers, to raise their interest in investing in and continuing the ATTRACT Project.

John Wood

Chair, Project Advisory Committee of ATTRACT
Monica Beltrametti

Head of Global Innovation Europe, Naver Corp
Sergio Bertolucci

Professor, University of Bologna & former scientific director at CERN
Francisco Javier Cáceres

General Manager, INEUSTAR (Spanish Science Industry Association)
Leopold Demiddeleer

Managing Director and Founder, TechBridgeOne SPRL
Candace Johnson

Co-founder of SES and architect of SES Global
Daria Tataj

Strategy advisor, board member and entrepreneur
Patrick Terroir

President of Innovation Legal, Chair of LESI patent and technology licensing committee, Legal counselor, Project Advisory Committee of ATTRACT

Special advisors

Henry Chesbrough

Special Advisor of the PAC; Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, University of California-Berkeley; Professor, Esade Business School
Claus Madsen

Senior adviser; Former Senior Counsellor for International Relations, European Southern Observatory (ESO)

R&D&I Committee

The R&D&I Committee (IC) is a fully independent committee of top-level experts in the domain of detector & imaging technology for science, industry and the private investor community.

Sergio Bertolucci

Chair, R&D&I Committee (IC) of ATTRACT; Professor, University of Bologna & former scientific director at CERN
Andrea Cuomo

Executive Vice President AST & Special Projects STMicroelectronics International
Cinzia Da Vià

Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester UK
Dimitra Darambara

Senior Team Leader, The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Chiara Giovenzana

CEO, investor & entrepreneur in the field of biotech
Heinz Graafsma

Head of the Photon-Science Detector Group at DESY & Adjunct Professor at Mid Sweden University
Ralf Kaiser

Professor, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow
Matthias Kaiserswerth

Managing Director, Hasler Stiftung
Sijbren Otto

Professor of Systems Chemistry, University of Groningen
Bernd Schmitt

Group Leader in Photon Science Division, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Pawel Sobkowicz

Deputy Director for Innovation and Commercialisation, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Świerk, Poland
Michel Spiro

Emeritus Research Director, CEA
Norbert Wermes

Professor of Physics, University of Bonn; Director, Institute of Physics Role in ATTRACT Member, Independent R&D&I Committee (IC) Norbert Wermes is Professor of Physics at the University of Bonn, Germany, and an expert in particle detectors and detector physics. After his studies he has been researcher at the accelerator centers DESY (Hamburg), SLAC (Stanford) and CERN…

Project Consortium Board

The Project Consortium Board (PCB) manages the ATTRACT Project.

Michael Krisch

Chair, Project Consortium Board; Scientist in charge of the biomedical beamline ID17, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
Alex Nussem

Secretary General of the European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA)
Kalevi Ekman

Professor of integrated product development and machine design, AALTO University
Martti Jerkku

Project Manager, Aalto University Design Factory and Deputy PCB member from Aalto University
Thierry Lagrange

Head of Industry, Procurement and Knowledge Transfer, CERN
Andrew McCarthy

Team leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation
Paolo Mutti

Head of Instrument Control Department, Head of Scientific Computing Department, Institut Laue-Langevin
Thomas Tschentscher

Scientific Director, European X-Ray Free Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL)
Jonathan Wareham

Professor of Information Systems, Esade Business School
Andy Williams

External Relations Officer, European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Project Administrative Office

The Project Administrative Office (PAO) is the dedicated administrative body for the delivery of the ATTRACT Project.

Markus Nordberg

Head of Resources Development of the Development and Innovation Unit (IPT-DI), CERN
Pablo Garcia Tello

Section Head of the Development of EU Projects & Initiatives, CERN
Romain Muller

EU Projects Officer, CERN
Marzio Nessi

Science Consultant

Dissemination, Communication & Outreach Office

The Dissemination, Communication & Outreach Office (Comms team) is dedicated to promoting communication, outreach and media activities for the ATTRACT Project.