The following high level speakers have already accepted to contribute to MIIFED 2013:
Carlos ALEJALDRE Carlos Alejaldre born in 1952 in Zaragoza (Spain) obtained his Ph.D. in Fusion and spent his first eight professional years at Polytechnic University of New York where he worked until 1986 in shock propagation issues in inertial confinement fusion. He went back to the Madrid nuclear center CIEMAT, where he ultimately became Director of the National Fusion Laboratory and Head of the Association EURATOM-CIEMAT that built the medium size stellarator TJ-II within the European Fusion Programme framework. After being Director of the technical studies to site ITER in Vandellos, Spain, he was named Director General for Technology (2004-2006) and since July 2006, he is Deputy Director-General at ITER in charge of the Safety, Quality and Security Department responsible for ITER nuclear licensing. |
Pavel ALEYNIKOV Aleynikov Pavel is a Monaco Postdoctoral Fellow at ITER. He came to ITER in 2012 from the Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, where he did his PhD on the modeling of fast particles in tokamaks. Pavel earned his master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In the ITER Organization Pavel joined the Plasma Stability and Control section of the Plasma Operation Directorate. |
Daniel ALLEN Allen Daniel has been involved with international business for almost three decades. Prior to founding Aliier he has worked for a variety of financial firms. He is a recognized leader in the industry and has spoken at many conferences about environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and socially responsible investing. He authored “The Next Step for ESG Investing: Moving from What and Why to How”, has written various articles and been quoted in numerous publications, including USA Today. Most recently he wrote a piece for the 100th issue of Ethical Investor in Australia. He is a guest instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart Graduate School of Business – Finance School. |
Yukiya AMANO Amano Yukiya is Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Prior to his election, Mr. Amano was Japan’s Resident Representative to the Agency from 2005, and served as Chair of the Agency’s Board of Governors from September 2005 to September 2006. He has extensive experience in disarmament and non-proliferation diplomacy, as well as nuclear energy issues. During his career at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Mr. Amano served as Director-General for the Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, and as a governmental expert on the U.N. Panel on Missiles and on the U.N. Expert Group on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education. He contributed to the 1995, 2000 and 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conferences, and chaired the 2007 Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference. |
Bernard BIGOT Bigot Bernard is Chairman of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (since January 2009), President of the International Foundation Maison de la Chimie and High French Representative for the realization of ITER. He managed the CNRS catalysis research institute for four years and the theoretical chemistry laboratory of ENS Lyon for 15 years. Parallel to academic responsibilities, he worked at ministerial level as Head of the Scientific and Technical Mission (1993-1996), Director General of Research and Technology (1996-1997) and Chief of staff (directeur de cabinet) of the Research and New Technologies Minister (2002-2003). From 2003 to April 2009, he was High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. |
Jean-Jacques DORDAIN Dordain Jean-Jacques is leading the European Space Agency as Director General since 2003, re-elected three times. Before, he completed his engineering studies at the Ecole Centrale in 1969. From 1970 to 1976, he worked at ONERA, the French National office for aerospace studies and research, conducting research on liquid propellant rocket engines and microgravity experiments. He joined the European Space Agency in 1986 as Head of the Microgravity and Space Station Utilisation Department. In 1993 he was appointed Associate Director for Strategy, Planning and International Policy, in 1999 Director of Strategy and Technical Assessment, and in 2001, Director of Launchers. He is a member of the French Académie des Technologies. |
Kurt EBBINGHAUS Ebbinghaus Kurt is a graduated engineer in mechanical and nuclear engineering. He is currently Fusion for Energy’s Industrial Liaison Officer for Germany. From 2002 to 2006 he has been Managing Director of Babcock Noell GmbH (nuclear plant services, waste management and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, development and fabrication of superconducting magnets for fusion and high energy physics). Prior this job, he had several positions in the nuclear industry (Project director for fast breeder and high temperature reactor development and director for European fast reactor associates at Siemens-KWU-Power Generation. |
Françoise FLAMENT Françoise FLAMENT is the Head of the Procurement and Contracts Division at the ITER Organization, in charge of the Procurement Arrangements with the ITER Domestic Agencies for the in-kind contributions and also for in-cash contracts under the ITER Organization’s responsibility. She has a strong background in the field of business and long-standing experience in construction projects and project management. Prior joining the ITER Organization, she was the Deputy Director for the Laser MegaJoule CEA/Project in France, in charge of business, strategic planning, risk management and project controls. Under a US/Department of Energy contract, she participated in the creation of two companies in the US and managed all financial matters for one of them as Financial and Project Controls Director. She has a background in law and economics and successfully completed the Executive Programme of the Institut Français de Gestion (IFG). |
| Philippe FRANTZ Frantz Philippe is president of REEL since 1988. He has made his entire professional career at REEL, an independent company created in 1946 and based in Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or in France. With 1,800 employees on four continents, the REEL Group develops, manufactures, installs and maintains complex handling systems. All over the world, these systems are integrated in its clients’ processes in the energy, aeronautics, offshore, defense, metallurgy, industry and environmental sectors. |
Kanji FUJIKI Fujiki Kanji graduated from University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science. In 1978, he joined the Safeguard Division, Nuclear Safety Bureau, at the Science and Technology Agency (STA). In 1993 he was appointed First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organization in Vienna, in 1999 Director, Press and Information Division at the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) and in 2000 Director, Aeronautics and Space Development Division, Research and Development Bureau, STA. In 2001 he became Director, Space Development and Utilization Division, Research and Development Bureau at MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Since 2012, he is Deputy Minister, MEXT. |
Pierre GADONNEIX Since 2010, Pierre GADONNEIX is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Latécoère, French equipment manufacturer for the aircraft industry.From 2004 to 2009, Pierre GADONNEIX was Chairman and CEO of EDF. Prior to joining EDF, Pierre GADONNEIX was Chairman and CEO of Gaz de France from 1996 after serving as CEO from 1987. Pierre GADONNEIX has a longstanding commitment to the World Energy Council. He was WEC Chair from 2006 to 2013 and was elected Honorary Chairman on October 2013. From 1978 to 1987, after two years as Technical Advisor to the Minister of Industry and Research, Pierre GADONNEIX was appointed Director of Metallurgical, Engineering and Electrical Industries at the Ministry of Industry. Pierre GADONNEIX is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, where he taught economics from 1983 to 1992, and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. In 1975 he was awarded a Doctorate from Harvard Business School. He is now President of the Harvard Business School Club de France since May 2011. In 2012 M. GADONNEIX was awarded Platt’s Energy award for his lifetime Achievement. Pierre GADONNEIX is a Commander of the Légion d’honneur and a Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite. |
Patrick GERAUD Patrick Geraud, 62 years old, is engineer in mechanics and aeronautics. After 8 years in an american company, he joined APAVE in 1983 where he held several positions up to South-Europe sales and marketing Director. Presently Associated Vice-President, Nuclear Business Line, he is also Director of the joint-venture Lloyd’s Register-Apave for the nuclear renewal in UK, and President of the business club “Partners around ITER”. He is the ITER project manager for APAVE group since 2005. |
Vincenzo GIORI Graduated in 1974 in Chemical Engineering at Università di Genova.In 1977 he begins his work experience as a process automation engineer in the sectors of Industry and Energy. He subsequently enters Philips Automation as technical director. In 1996 he becomes CEO of the Division Building Automation and board member of the Siemens Building Technologies AG. From 2005 to 2009 he is CEO of the Siemens Group in Italy. In 2009 he becomes President and CEO of the Seves Group, world leader in the field of electrical insulators. Since February 2012 he is the CEO of ASG Superconductors, company that controls Columbus Superconductors (superconductive wires in magnesium diboride) and Paramed (new generation MRI appliances), the Malacalza family’s Italian superconductivity chain. |
Masahiko INOUE Director, Fusion Engineering Office, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. He is currently responsible for the project management of the ITER TF Coil for JADA and leads the TFC consortium of MHI, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Hyundai Heavy Industries. He joined MHI in 1984 after receiving MEng from Keio University. Since then he has contributed to many fusion research and development in Japan. In the early 1990s, he has involved in the ITER related JDP between JAERI and USDOE, and worked as a guest researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. During 2000s he headed the development of leading-edge industrial equipment applied by fusion and plasma technologies. From 2009 to 2012, he was General Manager of Semiconductor Equipment Department. |
Sylvie JACQUEMOT Sylvie Jacquemot, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, is an expert in laser-produced plasma physics, and more especially in computational x-ray laser physics, from hydrodynamics to atomic kinetics and radiative transfer. On secondment from the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), where she was in charge of the coordination of the laser experimentation activities from 1999 to 2002, to LULI (Laboratoire d’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Palaiseau, France) as Deputy Director, she is the current chairperson of the EPS Plasma Physics Division and of the EURATOM Inertial Fusion Energy working group. She is also strongly involved in research evaluation for the CNRS National |
Jean JACQUINOT Jean Jacquinot is a French plasma physicist specialist in the confinement of fusion grade plasmas and heating with waves to thermonuclear temperature. His career developed first in Fontenay aux Roses France (1962 – 1982) as a physicist in the CEA fusion center then (1982 -1999) at the JET Joint Undertaking, the European fusion facility in Culham (UK), and finally in Cadarache first as the director of the CEA fusion institute (2000 – 2005) then as scientific advisor to the CEA chairman and expert to ITER (2005 – present)In JET, he held successively the managerial positions of head of RF division, associate director responsible for operations, and finally JET director. |
Kijung JUNG Dr. Kijung Jung has had a diverse career. Graduating from the French Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, he joined the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in 1986 and worked in the field of radioactive waste treatment. He would work on finding a site to host the low-level radioactive waste disposal facility until 1993 when he joined the OECD/NEA in Paris, France. He returned to KAERI in 1997 and worked on decommissioning nuclear facilities and managing spent nuclear fuel. He also took up the senior administrative position at KAERI of Director of the Division of Planning.In February of 2006, Dr. Jung moved to the National Fusion Research Institute and started taking part in the ITER project, the largest international joint scientific research endeavor the world has ever seen, as the Director General of the Korean implementing body, ITER Korea. |
Predhiman Krishan KAW  Kaw Predhiman Krishan is founder director of India’s Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), an internationally renowned and competitive premier Institute of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. The Institute has programmes in controlled magnetic fusion, fundamental plasma sciences and industrial application of plasmas. It spearheaded the program for India’s participation in ITER and has set up a separate entity, ITER India, to follow up on the participation. IPR and ITER India together employ about 500 scientists/engineers and today form the cradle of plasma and fusion development in India. Prior to this job P.K. Kaw has been principal research physicist and professor at Princeton University (USA). |
Keeman KIM Keeman Kim is DEMO Technology Division Director at National Fusion Research Institute. After graduating University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1989, he worked for the magnet system and beam control system of Advanced Photon Source project at Argonne National Laboratory.In 1994, he changed his position to Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as Energy Laboratory Director and developed the KSTAR superconducting magnet system. In 2002 he moved to Korea Basic Science Institute and also worked for the KSTAR magnet system and developed ITER TF conductor including Nb3Sn strands. National Fusion Research Institute is separated from Korean Basic Science Institute in 2006. He is now leading a Korean DEMO reactor design project. |
Madhukar KOTWAL Kotwal Madhukar is Member of the Board and President, Heavy Engineering, Larsen & Toubro Limited, India’s largest engineering, manufacturing and construction conglomerate, with annual group revenues exceeding US$ 14 Billion. He is responsible for business units and production facilities equipped for design and manufacture of a wide range of equipment and systems for Refinery, Fertilizer and Petro-chemical plants, Nuclear and Thermal Power plants, Defence, Aerospace and Shipbuilding industries. He is a fellow of INAE, has been associated with the leading Indian industry associations, and has also been a member of the Technical Advisory Group for ITER. |
Philippe LEBRUN Philippe Lebrun works at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, on high-energy particle accelerators. He led CERN’s Accelerator Technology department during the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the first global “big science” project. A graduate from Ecole des Mines (Paris) and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena), he is also Auditeur de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie (Paris) and Doctor honoris causa of the Wrocław University of Technology (Poland). He received the Ingénieur de l’Année award in 2010 and the Kamerlingh Onnes Medal of the Royal Dutch Association of Refrigeration in 2012. |
Andrew LEES Andrew Lees, founding partner of The Macro Strategy Partnership, has been in the financial markets since 1986. He has worked on both the buy side and the sell side with a wide global client base from institutions and banks to hedge funds, central banks and very wealthy individuals. A particular focus since the late 1990’s has been the energy markets, not only in terms of the supply of energy but the relationship between energy and the economy, and more importantly between energy and productivity growth itself. Andrew’s interest in fusion is not so much from a theoretical or scientific perspective although he finds that extremely interesting, but rather from the economic imperative of getting a cheap high density energy source to initially sustain economic output and to then be the springboard for the next industrial revolution. |
Jiangang LI Prof Jiangang LI received his Ph.D. in plasma physics from Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in 1990, then he worked for two years at Culham Science Center, UK as a visiting researcher. At the end of 1992 Prof Jiangang Li was named Head HT-6M Tokamak Division in charge of HT-6M physics and operation as well as HT-7 tokamak operation and diagnostics, Head of Physics Division for HT-7 physics and operation and EAST physics design in 1996. In 2001 he became Director of ASIPP, leading an institute of approximately 500 people engaged in thermonuclear fusion, fusion technology and engineering, plasma physics and its application, superconductivity, solar cell and ITER project.Prof Li is a member of European Fusion Facility Review Panel, an ITER Council (IC) member, a member of Technology Advisory Group (TAG) of ITER project. He was named chairman of China Nuclear Fusion Experts Committee in 2011. |
Christian LINSMEINER Director of the Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung, Plasmaphysik (IEK-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, and full professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He performed his PhD studies at Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching (Surface physics division) and at Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was involved as Scientific Coordinator (2004-2008) and Coordinator (2008-2010) in the EU FP6 Integrated Project ‘ExtreMat – New Materials for Extreme Environments’. At IPP Garching he was Group leader of the ‘Materials Synthesis and Characterization’ (2007-2011) and of the ‘Plasma-facing Materials and Components’ groups (2011-2013). From 2009-2011 he was Coordinator of the EU FP7 Coordination Action ‘Fusion Energy Materials Science – FEMaS’). |
Chris LLEWELLYN SMITH Llewellyn Smith Chris is Director of Energy Research, Oxford University, and President of the Council of SESAME. He has chaired the Council of ITER, directed the UK’s fusion programme, and served as Provost and President of University College London and Director General of CERN (1994-1998, when the Large Hadron Collider was approved and construction started). He has written and spoken widely on science funding, international scientific collaboration and energy issues, and served on numerous advisory bodies. His scientific contributions to theoretical high energy physics and leadership have been recognised by awards and honours world-wide. |
Akko MAAS Akko Maas did his PhD studies at the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen and at the Joint European Torus (JET). He was hired at JET in 1995. He was involved as Experiment Leader in the Tritium experiments at JET in 1996-1997. At the end of 1999 he moved to Cadarache to work on Tore Supra. In 2001 he became project manager for scientific and technical aspects of the European ITER Site Studies. In January 2006 he moved to ITER. Within the ITER Organization, he has fulfilled various roles. He is currently responsible for Export Control, Non-Proliferation and Peaceful Uses. He is also involved in IPR related matters. |
| Jean-Luc MIQUEL Jean-Luc MIQUEL  is a Project Manager at CEA. He is graduated from École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris, France (1984), and obtained his PhD at University Paris VI in Physics (1989). He joined the CEA in 1990. He worked on laser-plasma diagnostics for fusion, and Ultra-High Intensity laser experiments, before becoming the Head of the laboratory in charge of laser-plasma experiments on high energy laser facilities around the world. Currently he is managing the experimental part of the Simulation Program of CEA, performed on the LIL and LMJ facilities ; as well as the achievement of PETAL laser, a 7 PW short pulse laser coupled to LMJ. |
Dan P. MISTRY Mistry Dan P is the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Fusion and Industry Manager since January 2004 with the principal aim to encourage UK companies to tender for fusion procurement and consultancy contracts arising from ITER programme. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and a masters in business administration. He joined UK Atomic Energy Authority in 1986 in the research reactor division and was responsible for various mechanical designs associated with the materials test reactors until their closure in early 90’s. He was then transferred to ‘decommissioning and radioactive waste management’ and was involved in various decommissioning programmes. |
Osamu MOTOJIMA Osamu Motojima is Director-General of the ITER Organization since 28 July 2010. He is a much-respected figure in fusion science in Japan and abroad. Professor Motojima graduated from the Kyoto University in Physics in 1971, before completing a Master’s course in Physics in 1973 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1976. He worked as a research associate and professor of plasma physics before joining the Japanese National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) in 1989. At NIFS, in 1998, he took over the responsibility for the Large Helical Device (LHD) program to build the largest superconducting stellarator in the world, until April 2003, when he became Director-General of NIFS. |
Ilchong NAM Nam Ilchong is a professor of economics at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Seoul Korea, a graduate school focused on economic policy. He spent 12 and half years as a senior fellow at Korea Development Institute before moving to his current position in 2002. He has been conducting policy oriented economic research in the last 25 years or so and contributed to the development of economic policies for the Korean government on electricity and other energy markets, competition, regulation, and governance of SOEs. He is currently working on the nuclear industry and optimal policy mix for the industry. |
Arata NISHIMURA Arata Nishimura is a Deputy Head of Magnet Division at ITER Organization from December 2012. He graduated Welding Engineering and received his Doctor of Engineering from Osaka University in 1982. He was a research associate in Osaka University and moved to National Institute for Fusion Science to join Large Helical Device project in 1991 as an associate professor and became a professor in 2000. Also, he was a professor at the Graduate University of Advanced Studies and a visiting professor at Tohoku University. His major investigation field was superconducting magnet engineering, welding engineering and fusion technology. He was an expert of Science and Technology Advisory Committee for ITER project. |
Jérôme PAMELA Pamela Jérôme, graduated from Polytechnique, joined the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in 1977. From 1984 to 1996, he helped develop particle bundles designed to heat fusion plasma and supervised the first site studies for Cadarache as potential host for ITER. In 1996, he was appointed head of the controlled fusion research department at Cadarache and of the Euratom-CEA association for fusion. In September 1999, he moved to England to manage the JET programme and then to Germany to manage the EFDA fusion programme. He is currently Director of Agence ITER France, responsible for ensuring the development of the ITER construction site, welcoming ITER families, and monitoring the French contributions to the project as part of its commitments as host country. |
John PARMENTOLA Parmentola John has built a career as a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator, with broad experience in the private sector, academia and in high-level positions within the federal government and U.S. defense community. As Senior Vice President at General Atomics, he leads the California-based technology company’s Energy and Advanced Concepts Group, focusing on research and development in energy, defense, IT, transportation and oversight of DIII-D National Fusion Facility, the largest in the U.S. The MIT-trained physicist served as Director for Research and Laboratory Management for the U.S. Army, overseeing a $1-billion combined budget for basic and applied research, environmental quality and manufacturing technologies, small business innovative research and high-performance computing programs. |
Murali RAVINDRAN Murali Ravindran (Murali.Ravindran@ni.com) leads Business Development and Sales worldwide for Scientific Research segment at National Instruments. His previous positions included sales manager for Asia, Europe and Senior Product Manager for High Energy Physics and Instrument Control. He has been actively involved in several particle accelerator, plasma physics, light source and large telescope projects with various national labs worldwide. He has published a dozen journal papers and articles, led technical panels, delivered keynotes and delivered industry/technical sessions at various international physics conferences. He holds a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering and a MBA in Entrepreneurship from The University of Oklahoma. Before joining National instruments he worked as a research assistant at the Center for the study of Wireless Electromagnetic Compatibility, University of Oklahoma, (NSF sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center) and as a business analyst in a start-up biotech company. |
Víctor SAEZ Víctor Sáez was born in Madrid on 1969 where he studied law. He moved to Brussels soon after finishing the University in 1993. In Belgium he worked for the Spanish Industrial Confederation (CEOE) and in the European Parliament. On 1997 he joined the European Commission as official. Most of his time at the European Commission was devoted to Intellectual Property issues. He spent some years drafting legislation on Intellectual property (IP) and some few more dealing with the IP related aspects of the Information Society (Internet). His last position before joining F4E was in the Joint Research Centre where he was taking care of the portfolio of IP rights of the European Institutions. Víctor Sáez has spent 4 years at F4E as Intellectual Property responsible and, from last year, he is group leader of the Market Intelligence group. |
Ned R. SAUTHOFF Sauthoff Ned R. is Director, US ITER Project Office. He is a plasma physicist and project manager of the US Contributions to ITER Project. Prior to US ITER, Ned headed the Off-Site Research Department at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and managed research on leading facilities around the world addressing key fusion physics and technology questions. At PPPL, he developed x-ray instrumentation and performed research on tokamak plasmas, managed design and operation of control and data system for Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor and headed PPPL’s Computer Division, Princeton Beta Experiment, Experimental Projects Department, Physics Department and, Plasma Science and Technology Department. |
Carlo SBORCHIA Carlo Sborchia is the Head of the Vessel Division at the ITER Organization since November 2012. He is responsible for the design and procurement of the Vacuum Vessel and its Pressure Suppression System, Cryostat, Thermal Shields and In-Vessel Coils. A graduate in Nuclear Engineering from Pisa University, he started to work in fusion at JET, then joined ITER in 1993 to work on the design and R&D of the superconducting magnets. Following a spell at the W7-X project as leader of the magnet group, he has also worked at the European Domestic Agency in Barcelona from 2008 till 2012. |
András SIEGLER Siegler András is Director of the European Commission in charge of research and innovation policies and programmes in nuclear and non-nuclear energy. Dr. Siegler graduated in control engineering from the Budapest Technical University. He holds a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering, a postgraduate degree in economics and an MBA. Between 1996 and 2004 he held senior management positions at state undersecretary level in the Hungarian administration, being in charge of national policy, legislation and fund management of research and technological innovation. Before joining the Commission in 2005, he represented Hungary in the research policy bodies of the EU, NATO, OECD and CERN. |
Derek STORK Derek Stork was Director of Technology of the UK Atomic Energy Authority from 2008 until retirement in June 2012. He had a career of over 30 years in Fusion Research, including as a member of the Joint European Torus (JET) project team from 1980-1999. At JET he was Programme Leader (1994-6) involving leading work on the JET Deuterium-Tritium Experiment (DTE1). In 2000 he rejoined the Senior Management of the UKAEA’s Culham Division as part of the Culham Senior Management team executing the JET Operating Contract on behalf of the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA). Under EFDA he was also Leader of the D-T Task Force (2000-4) and the Trace-Tritium Experimental campaign (2003). Derek has taken a leading role in Europe’s definition of DEMO. He was Chairman of the EFDA Materials Assessment Group, reporting on the status of Structural, Plasma Facing and High-heat flux materials for DEMO in 2012. He was also a member of the EU Fusion Roadmap Group which proposed the EU path to DEMO endorsed by the EU Fusion Community in 2013. Derek was elected as a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics in 1997. |
Thomas SUNN PEDERSEN Thomas Sunn Pedersen is the director of Stellarator Edge and Divertor Physics at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, and professor of physics at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald, Germany. He received his M.Sc in Applied Physics Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 1995, and his PhD in plasma physics from MIT (USA) in 2000. He served from 2000-2011 as a faculty member at Columbia University in New York, before moving to Germany. He has worked on experimental stellarator and tokamak physics, including transport of plasma impurities, stabilization of magnetohydrodynamic modes, and fundamental studies of non-neutral |
Giuseppe TADDIA Graduated at the University of Bologna in 1990 in Electronic Engineering, specialty Power electronics and control. Started his career in OCEM in 1991 as electronics designer and responsible for metrology and testing, and further on became manager of the electronics design department. Manager of OCEM Power Electronics Business Unit since 2011. Followed as a project manager important projects in the field of nuclear fusion and particle physics. Is member of different technical committees and co-author of scientific articles.. |
Hideyuki TAKATSU Takatsu Hideyuki is a scientific advisor to the President of JAEA, Japan, and current Chair of the ITER Council. His expertise is fusion technology, and he was one of the members of the ITER Joint Central Team at Garching during CDA in late 1980’s. Since then, he has devoted most of his career to the ITER Project, including Head of JA DA (2009) and Member of the ITER Council (2010). In 2012, upon election, he took an office of Chair of the ITER Council. He is also Vice Chair of the Fusion Program Coordinating Committee under IEA framework and Chair of the International Standing Committee for International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT). |
| Kenji TOBITA Kenji Tobita has conducted Fusion Reactor Design Group of Japan Atomic Energy Agency more than a decade. Currently, he is also leading the Japan Team of the DEMO Design Activity under the Broader Approach that is a Japan-EU cooperative programme toward fusion DEMO. His areas of interest and expertise are wide, encompassing fusion reactor system design, plasma physics, fusion technologies, safety and radioactive waste. |
Maria VAN der HOEVEN  Van der Hoeven Maria took over as Executive Director of the IEA on 1 September 2011. Previously, Ms. Van der Hoeven served as Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands from February 2007 to October 2010, during which time she demonstrated leadership on energy policy at the national, regional and global levels. Prior to becoming Minister of Economic Affairs, Ms. Van der Hoeven was Minister of Education, Culture and Science from 2002 to 2007. She was an elected member of the Netherlands House of Representatives of the States-General from 1991 to 2002. Until 1987 she was head of the Adult Commercial Vocational Training Centre in Maastricht, after which she served as head of the Limburg Technology Centre until 1991. |
Guido VAN OOST Guido Van Oost is full professor at Ghent University (Belgium) and Head of the Research Unit Nuclear Fusion. He is the coordinator of the EU Erasmus Mundus “European Master in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics”, and the Erasmus Mundus “International Doctoral College in Fusion Science and Engineering”. He graduated in electrotechnical engineering at Ghent University and did his PhD in Plasma Physics at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels. He works on nuclear fusion research at FZ- Jülich (Germany) and IPP-AS Prague (Czech Republic) on improved magnetic confinement, plasma diagnostics, plasma-wall interaction, and materials for fusion reactors. |
Xavier VIGOR  Xavier Vigor began his professional career in 1988 with the Air Liquide Group.In his first job, he was a research engineer specializing in non-cryogenic hydrogen purification processes. Subsequently, he held a number of positions involving diverse responsibilities within most of the Group’s business lines and took many responsibilities in R&D including the management of the US and the French research centers. He had also experience in sales, in Engineering and in Industrial IT. In July 2011, Xavier Vigor joined the teams of the aB&T – advanced Business & Technologies networks as CEO of the advanced Technologies entity. A subsidiary of the Group, Air Liquide advanced Technologies (AL-aT) specializes in high tech systems engineering (for aviation, space, defense and new energies such as biogas and hydrogen). To be as close as possible to its customers and markets, AL-aT and its nearly 650 employees are based in France (Grenoble and Les Mureaux) as well as in Germany, China and Japan. Xavier Vigor is graduate from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. |
Greg WILLETTS Willetts Greg is Consultancy Director within the Clean Energy Europe business of AMEC, leading the Consultancy business which provides project management, engineering and consultancy services to the energy and related markets – nuclear, conventional energy, renewables and oil & gas sectors. He has 23 years experience in the nuclear industry and has held a number of positions within AMEC and previously NNC Ltd. The Clean Energy Europe business of AMEC employs over 650 consultants with a turnover of c.£65M/annum providing specialist consultancy services in nuclear safety case services, materials and structural integrity, human factors, nuclear licensing, engineering simulation, remote engineering and inspection services etc. |
Hiroshi YAMADA Y  Hiroshi Yamada is the Scientific Executive Director at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), Japan and a professor at the Graduate University of Advanced Studies. He is also concurrently appointed to a Science Adviser of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Professor Yamada received his Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1987. He is responsible for the Large Helical Device project, which is the world largest stellarator/heliotron experiment. He is leading this alternative and complemenatary approach to tokamak. Recently he has become charged with planning towards establishment of technological basis for DEMO in Japan. |
Soon Chul YUN Soon Chul YUN is Executive Senior Vice President of KEPCO E&C, responsible for the entire Nuclear Division. Through more than 30 years of his career, he has endeavored for advancement of Korean nuclear industry. He contributed to the development of new technology by serving as Project Management for APR1400 and APR+ development with his broad experience accumulated through performing design of Korean nuclear power plants. Until he took on the current position, he has been leading the development of several large scale nuclear projects including ITER Projects and UAE Barakah Nuclear Power Program as head of nuclear business department. |
Kyung Sook YOON Y  oon Kyung Sook is Director, Fusion R&D Support Team, at the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), Republic of Korea. She leads Korea contribution to ITER project and national fusion R&D policy including KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research). After graduated in public administration, she joined the Korean Government in 2002. Prior to current position, she headed science and mathematics education team, and worked for industry-university cooperation, S&T information policy and planning division at Science Ministry. |