Executive Board Members
Michael E. Stuckelberger; DESY
Michael E. Stuckelberger is tenured staff scientist at DESY. Physicist by education, he holds a PhD in Materials Science from ETH Lausanne (Switzerland). During his thesis that was awarded with the EPFL prize in microtechnology, he manufactured thin-film solar cells based on amorphous silicon. During his postdoc at Arizona State University, he got first in contact with X-ray microscopy. Today, is heading a team of > 10 people developing X-ray microscopy methods for the characterization of semiconductor devices with applications from photovoltaics to power electronics. The methods for nanoscale performance mapping are successfully transferred to industry and at the core of the Materials Scanning Nanoscope beamline to be built at the new storage ring PETRA IV. He is teaching at University of Hamburg and steering international research as chair of the microscopy proposal review panels at the synchrotrons NSLS II (USA) and ESRF (France), WP leader in the EU project ReMade@ARI, and coordinator of RIANA.
Regina Ciancio is Research Director and Head of LAME (Laboratory of Electron Microscopy) with over two decades of expertise in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) applied to solid-state materials. Her research focuses on investigating atomic-scale defects and electronic properties in complex oxide thin films and energy materials, aiming to establish a correlation between nanostructure and functional properties. She also work on developing advanced methodologies for correlative approaches in electron microscopy, with a special emphasis on in situ/in operando techniques that integrate TEM and synchrotron spectroscopies.
She has authored over 90 publications in international journals and presented her work as an invited speaker at numerous global conferences. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe-funded IMPRESS project, Workpackage leader of the RIANA project and serve as Vice President of the Italian Microscopy Society (SISM).
Regina Ciancio; LAME
Rafal Dunin-Borkowski; Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rafal Dunin-Borkowski is Director of the Institute for Microstructure Research and the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons in Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany and Professor of Experimental Physics in RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His Ph.D. (1990-1994) was carried out in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in the University of Cambridge. After working as a postdoctoral research scientist in the University of Cambridge, Arizona State University and Oxford University, between 2000 and 2006 he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in the University of Cambridge. Between 2007 and 2010, he led the establishment of the Center for Electron Nanoscopy in the Technical University of Denmark. He specializes in the characterization of magnetic and electronic materials at the highest spatial resolution using advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques, including aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and off-axis electron holography. He has published more than 920 journal papers, conference papers and book chapters, has given more than 360 invited lectures and seminars, has been a member of 40 advisory boards and steering committees, has organized 45 conference symposia and workshops and has received 20 prizes for papers presented at conferences and 6 prizes for science as art.
Dr. Margit Nothnagl is, since the end of August 2023, Administrative Director at Max IV Laboratory, Lund University. In this position she is part of the management team of the largest, state-financed research infrastructure in Sweden, the national synchrotron laboratory.
Previously she was a Faculty Director at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) since 2011. Before that, she worked for four years as a coordination director of studies at SLU.
Margit Nothnagl; Lund University
Daniela Stozno; MBI
Daniela Stozno heads the Administration Office at the Max-Born-Institut (MBI) and serves on the board of Lasers4EU, an EU-funded initiative. She has played a key role in coordinating major European laser research networks, including Laserlab-Europe, promoting open access to advanced laser facilities.
She also led public outreach efforts like the Fascination of Light exhibition and contributed to biomedical optics research projects such as FastMOT. Her work focuses on fostering international collaboration and advancing laser and photonics research across Europe.
Giancarlo Panaccione is Research Director at National Research Council (CNR) Lab TASC, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Trieste. With > 220 publications in leading international peer-reviewed journals. h-index 44, h10-index 143 (from Google Scholar Dec 1st, 2023). His present research interests are focused on the electronic and magnetic properties of quantum materials and nano-materials, where emerging properties arise from strong interactions between constituent particles. In particular, the activity is focused on achieving control of these properties via external tuning parameters, growth and fabrication of digital heterostructures, possibly leading to new applications in quantum electronics and spintronics. His research activity is mostly devoted to the exploitation of Synchrotron Radiation spectroscopies, following three main axes: (1) electronic and magnetic properties of low dimensional systems (2) electron confinement and topological properties, and (3) magnetism and phase transition in complex oxides and highly correlated systems.
Giancarlo Panaccione; CNR
Panagiotis A. Loukakos; IESL
Dr. Panagiotis A. Loukakos is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), part of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Greece. He earned his B.Sc. (1996), M.Sc. (1998), and Ph.D. (2002) in Physics from the University of Crete.
His research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy, exploring electron dynamics in nanomaterials, strongly correlated systems, and plasmonic structures. He leads the FLASS (Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy in Solid State) laboratory, which employs femtosecond lasers to study ultrafast processes in materials.
Gastón García López is Director of CMAM. PhD in Physics at UAM in 2000, he moved from the area of High Energy Physics to Accelerator-based RIs for multidisciplinary science. His scientific interests are wide, but particularly focused on radiation damage for technology applications. He has been deputy director of ALBA synchrotron until December 2019, and is engaged into different collaborations and committees, such as: League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources (LEAPS, coordination board chair); ESRF council (Spanish delegation scientific advisor); European Physics Journal Plus (managing director).
Gastón García López; CMAM