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
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. Information on an ERIC can be found on the EC’s website. Detailed documentation on the ERIC legal framework can be found here.
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.
Appointed Leadership
The Director General of European Spallation Source ERIC is Helmut Schober. The Chair of the European Spallation Source ERIC Council is Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph of Germany, and the Vice-Chair is Kurt Clausen of Denmark.
Committees
The committees established by the ERIC 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 ERIC 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.
- Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph (Chair)
German Federal Ministry of Education & Research (ret.)
Germany - Kurt Clausen (Vice-Chair)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Denmark - 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 - Inmaculada Figueroa
Ministry of Science and Innovation
Spain - Adolfo Morais
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 - Shabana Haque
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
United Kingdom - Mark Thomson
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
United Kingdom
