Board Member

Helmut Schober is Director General of the European Spallation Source (ESS), a European intergovernmental laboratory under construction in Lund, Sweden. Before moving to ESS Helmut held the position of Director for the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL).

He studied physics at the University of Regensburg, before going on to the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA) and specializing in the spectroscopy of molecular systems. His research has focused on fullerenes, the dynamics of liquids and glasses and on neutron instrumentation. 2019 he received the Award of Honorary Doctorate by the Université Grenoble Alpes. 2022 Helmut Schober was appointed as Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Physics.