A Networking Session will be held for Students and Early Career Researchers.
Participants will be able to discuss with the following people.
| Grégory | Chaboussant | Laboratoire Léon Brillouin |
| Marek | Lewitowicz | NuPECC |
| Inti | Lehmann | FAIR |
| Emily | Meads | Speedinvest |
| Nathalie | Lenke | Pulsed |
| Francesca | Poli | ITER Organization |
| Ronald | Holtzwarth | Menlo Systems, Martinsried |
| Marta | Fajardo | Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Ursula | Wurstbauer | University of Munster |
Grégory Chaboussant
Born in 1970, I have obtained in 1997 a PhD in Solid-State Physics from the University of Grenoble. I worked then on quantum magnetism in low dimensions. After two post-docs in the UK (ISIS, RAL) and Switzerland (Bern University) where I worked on GMR materials and molecular magnets using neutron scattering techniques in particular, I came back to France and joined the CNRS in 2003 as a permanent research at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin and Orphée reactor in Saclay to work on magnetic nano-systems like nanowires and nanoparticles. As instrument scientist, I developed the new small-angle neutron scattering instrument PA20 dedicated to nanoscale materials, and expanded my research interests into complex topological magnets and photomagnetic molecules or nanoparticles which yielded innovative in-situ laser devices coupled to neutron scattering experiments. From 2018 until 2023, I became LLB Deputy-Director as well as responsible for the French inkind contribution to the European Spallation Source (ESS) neutron instruments in Sweden and the realization of the LLB outstations national program. Since 2021, I also serve as Industry Liaison Officer for the French Higher-Education and Research Ministry.
Marta Fajardo
Marta Fajardo is an Associate Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and conducts her research at the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion (IPFN). She obtained her Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique and Instituto Superior Técnico in 2001, starting her career with the study of plasmas for controlled nuclear fusion. Upon returning to Portugal, she conducted research on secondary sources of radiation such as X-ray lasers and high harmonics, and led various experimental campaigns at laser facilities in Europe and the United States as Principal Investigator. Currently, she leads the VOXEL station at IPFN, which operates a tabletop high power laser laboratory. Her team uses this setup to study new X-ray sources and their applications in high-resolution imaging and dense plasma diagnostics. Internationally, she currently coordinates the EIC-Pathfinder NanoXCan project, aimed at optimizing sources with high repetition rates using machine learning and developing a new X-ray microscope. Additionally, she serves as Vice-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the ERIC Extreme Light Infrastructure and as Vice Coordinator for Physics Engineering at IST
Nathalie Lenke
Nathalie is a postdoctoral scientist, CTO and passionate scuba diver. She studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU), where she also completed her PhD with summa cum laude in 2021 in the group of Prof. Ferenc Krausz. Awarded with the Otto Hahn Medal and the Springer Best Ph.D. Theses Award, she continued as a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) to further develop a new generation of laser systems that she pioneered during her PhD. Currently, Nathalie is at the transition from academia to industry, holding a “Chief Technology Officer” (CTO) position at the start-up company PULSED GmbH. PULSED is a spin-off from LMU and MPQ founded in summer 2022, with the long-term vision to use novel infrared laser technology for population-based health monitoring and disease detection. When Nathalie isn’t busy with her responsibilities at work, she enjoys scuba diving in nearby lakes, gardening, riding motorcycles, and spending time with her family.
Inti Lehmann
Marek Lewitowicz
Marek LEWITOWICZ is the Chairman of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC), one of the Expert Committees of the ESF. He is working as a research director at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in the French national laboratory GANIL in Caen. He holds a PhD in nuclear physics from the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Świerk, near Warsaw, and he was appointed professor of physics by the President of Poland.
From 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2016, he was appointed as the deputy director of GANIL (250 full-time employees). In particular, he was responsible on behalf of the Directorate for the management of the research unit of CNRS and co-responsible for the management of the GANIL budget (20 million euros per year), project organisation, staff training, etc.
From 2005 to 2011, he was appointed by the SPIRAL2 Steering Committee as the scientific director of the SPIRAL2 ESFRI Landmark project. The main task of the scientific director was to establish a strong link between the project and the French and international scientific community, as well as to coordinate all research activities of the project and ensure that every choice of technical solution made in the project was in line with its scientific objectives.
The main topics of Prof. Marek Lewitowicz's research are nuclear structure and nuclear reactions, and more particularly, the discovery of new isotopes and the structure of nuclei far from stability, the study of reaction mechanisms, measurements of reaction cross sections with neutrons, and new experimental techniques for spectroscopy of exotic nuclei. His scientific production reached more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Prof. Marek Lewitowicz was and is strongly involved in several European research projects related to FP6, FP7, H2020, and Horizon Europe, integrating activities of European infrastructures like ENSAR, ENSAR2, CRISP, EURO-LABS, and IDEAAL to the development of the ESFRI landmark facility SPIRAL2 at GANIL.
He was in the past, and he is currently a member of numerous advisory and evaluation committees in Europe, the US, Canada, and Japan.
Francesa Poli
Francesca Poli is a physicist in the Science Division at the ITER Organization, where she coordinates the development of a highly modular, high fidelity physics tokamak plasma simulator. She holds a Master in physics from the University of Roma La Sapienza and a PhD in plasma physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Francesca Poli works at the interface between physics and engineering, using integrated modelling to support analysis and predictions of experiments, and optimization of systems. Her career has progressively evolved from experimental physics to integrated modelling, as she moved from Italy, her home country, to Switzerland, then to the UK and to the United States, where she has lived for the past 13 years before joining the ITER Organization in 2023. In the US, Francesca Poli was a principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, one of the US DOE National Laboratories, where she used to collaborate with experiments in Asia, Europe and the US, and where she was coordinating the development of TRANSP, a code for tokamak plasma simulations used worldwide for the modelling of tokamaks. This hopping around was crucial for shaping the career path of Francesca, which has largely benefited from the build-up of a network of collaborations with the major experimental facilities and from a wealth of knowledge transfer from experienced colleagues across the globe.
Ursula Wurstbauer
Ursula Wurstbauer is a Full Professor at Münster University in Germany. She holds a degree in Physics from the University of Regensburg in 2006, where she also received her PhD in 2008. After postdoc stays at Hamburg University and Columbia University in the City of New York (USA), she became a group leader at the Technical University of Munich and was elected as PI of the DFG cluster of excellence “Nanosystems Initiative Munich” (NIM) and PI of the DFG cluster e-conversion and was than appointed as full Professor at Münster University. Her current research focuses on the experimental exploration of (i) deterministic and scalable single photon sources in 2d materials (ii) photophysical properties of two-dimensional materials and interfaces (iii) correlations and (excitonic) many body phenomena in twisted and doped van der Waals heterostructures (iv) exotic and topological protected quantum states (v) novel materials and hybrid-structures. The aim is to gain a fundamental understanding of their physical properties and to learn – in a next step – to control and tailor them on purpose with the vision to achieve novel functionalities. These low-dimensional systems are therefore integrated in nano- and microscale circuitries, as well as in proof-of-concept devices to explore their potential for opto-/electronic or energy harvesting applications and to serve as test-bed structures towards quantum technologies. She is author (co-author) of more than 100 publications.
