BP&IF Board

Following the 2023 elections, the composition of the Board is the following:

Chairman

Luca Volpe – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Centro de Laseres Pulsados
Salamanca (Spain)

Board members

  • Alexis Casner (elected; up to March 2026) – CEA-DAM, Arpajon (France)
  • Fabrizio Consoli (elected; up to March 2024) – ENEA – Nuclear Department, Centro Ricerche Frascati, Frascati (Italy)
  • Laurent Gremillet (elected; up to March 2024) – CEA-DAM, Arpajon (France) and Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, LMCE, Bruyères-le-Châtel (France)
  • Malte Kaluza (elected; up to March 2024) – Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Jena (Germany)
  • Piotr Rączka (elected; up to March 2026) – Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw (Poland)
  • Luca Volpe (elected; up to March 2026) – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Centro de Laseres Pulsados, Salamanca (Spain)
  • Michael Tatarakis (co-opted; up to March 2026) – Hellenic Mediterranean University -Institute of Plasma Physics and Lasers, Rethimno, and Department of Electronic Engineering, Chania (Greece)
  • Olga Rosmej (co-opted; up to March 2026) – Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Alex Robinson (co-opted; up to March 2026) – Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton (United Kingdom)
  • Stefano Atzeni (honorary; ex-chair) – Focused Energy GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Dimitri Batani (honorary; ex-chair) – Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA, Talence (France)
  • Marta Fajardo (honorary; ex-chair) – GoLP, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear,  Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa (Portugal)
  • Leo Gizzi (honorary; ex-chair) – Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory (ILIL), INO-CNR, Pisa (Italy)
  • Sylvie Jacquemot (honorary; EPS-DPP ex-chair) – Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) and CEA-DAM, Arpajon (France)
  • Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (honorary; ex-chair) – Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany)
  • Vladimir Tickhonchuk (honorary; ex-chair & EPS-DPP Board member) – CELIA, University of Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, Talence (France) and ELI-Beamlines Facility, Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolní Břežany (Czech Republic)
  • Stefan Weber (invited; EPS-DPP Board member) – Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolní Břežany (Czech Republic)