Governance
ESS is organised as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, or ERIC, under the European Commission's ERIC legal framework.
European Spallation Source ERIC Council
The European Spallation Source ERIC is governed by the European Spallation Source ERIC Council, which is bound by the Statutes ratified by the ERIC Member Countries.
The constituting European Spallation Source ERIC Council Meeting was held on 2 & 3 July 2015, where the leadership was appointed, the Council Rules of Procedure were adopted, and the Terms of Reference for all advisory committees were adopted by the Council. The EC's establishment of ESS as an ERIC occurred on 31 August 2015, and the transition of ESS from a Swedish limited partnership to an ERIC was completed as of 1 October 2015.
Read more about the ERIC legal framework and related detailed legal documentation.
On 30 June 2023, the ESS Council elected Robert McGreevy of United Kingdom as its Chair and Andrea Fischer of Germany as Vice-Chair.
Appointed Leadership
Since 1 November 2021 the Director General of European Spallation Source ERIC is Helmut Schober.
Committees
The committees established by the ESS Council, including the Administrative and Finance Committee (AFC), In-Kind Review Committee (IKRC), Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), serve as advisors to the ESS Council.
Delegates to the ESS Council
The ESS ERIC Council is composed of up to two delegates from each Member State, as well as a Chair and Vice-Chair appointed by the Council.
- Robert McGreevy (Chair)
STFC
United Kingdom - Andrea Fischer (Vice-Chair)
Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union
Germany - Ondřej Svoboda
Director, Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences - CAS
Czech Republic - Marek Vyšinka
Head of Unit for Research Infrastructures, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Czech Republic - Bo Smith
Danish Ministry of Higher Education & Research
Denmark - Jane Hvolbæk Nielsen
Technical University of Denmark - DTU
Denmark - Toivo Räim
Ministry of Education & Research
Estonia - Priit Tamm
Estonian Research Council
Estonia - Sylvain Ravy
French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS
France -
Marie-Hélène Mathon
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission - CEA
France - Ralph Dieter
Federal Ministry of Education & Research
Germany - Martin Müller
Helmholtzzentrum Geesthacht
Germany - Ákos Horvath
Centre for Energy Research
Hungary - Balázs Kápli
National Research, Development and Innovation Office
Hungary
- Aldo Covello
Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research
Italy - Pierluigi Campana
National Institute of Nuclear Physics - INFN
Italy - Odd Ivar Eriksen
Research Council of Norway
Norway - Marek Jezabek
Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ-PAN)
Poland - Mateusz Gaczyński
Ministry of Science & Higher Education
Poland - Ana Maria Aricha Yanguas
Ministry of Science and Innovation
Spain - Adolfo Morais Ezquerro
Basque Ministry of Universities & Research
Spain - David Edvardsson
Ministry of Education & Research
Sweden - Lars Börjesson
Chalmers University
Sweden - Xavier Reymond
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation - SERI
Switzerland - Christian Rüegg
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
Switzerland - Ana Delgado
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
United Kingdom - Mark Thomson
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
United Kingdom
