When: February 12, 15:00–16.30
Where: LINXS, workshop room on the 3rd floor (The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, 224 84), with digital participation possibility via Zoom.
Speaker: Prof Andrew Harrison, Director of Science, Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI ERIC
Abstract: CERIC-ERIC is an organization that provides a single point of access to a collection of large-scale research infrastructures, including synchrotron and neutron scattering beamlines, ion-beams and high-end NMR and electron microscopy for research in materials science and engineering and in the life sciences. One aim of CERIC is to strengthen scientific communities across its 8 Member States – Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania and Slovenia – but access to their facilities is open to scientists worldwide on the basis of peer-reviewed excellence. Applications for access to multiple techniques in a single proposal are encouraged, stimulating cross-facility collaboration. Non-experts may submit proposals in a novel, two-stage process in which an initial proposal receives advice for improvement before final submission for review. CERIC may also provide funding for students, postdocs and technical development programs, with an emphasis on cross-facility projects. While the current membership is based in Central Europe, we have increasing engagement with Associated Facilities further afield and are open to opportunities for further expansion to increase the range and collaborations across all the institutes we embrace.
Bio: Andrew Harrison studied chemistry at Oxford University (BA 1982, Doctorate 1986), held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Oxford from 1988 and worked for McMaster University and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd as a Postdoctoral Researcher before taking up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1993. He was appointed Professor of Solid State Chemistry in 1999, and in 2002 became the founding Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions in Edinburgh, established to explore the properties of materials and life under extreme pressure, temperature and magnetic fields.
In 2006 he was appointed Scientific Director of the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, the world’s leading centre for neutron science, and became Director General of the ILL in 2011. In 2014 he returned to the UK to become CEO of Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility at the Harwell Campus. From November 2022 he served as Science Director of ELI ERIC. Since November 2024, he has been Executive Director of CERIC.
Andrew has chaired EIROForum, the collection of European international research infrastructures including CERN, ESA, ESO and ESRF, and is also Chair of ERF AISBL, the organisation of European Research Infrastructures of pan-European interest that are not members of EIROForum. He holds honorary positions at the universities of Bath, Edinburgh and Manchester, is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and was awarded an OBE for services to science during the Covid-19 response.
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