Structure

The management of the Microkelvin consortium will focus on six aspects: organization, time, budget, quality, communications, risks and knowledge.

Microkelvin Structure includes the European Commission, General Assembly, Management Committee, Advisory Board and the Management Office

The MICROKELVIN organization comprises of the following bodies:

General Assembly: the ultimate decision-making and arbitration body.

  • Prof. George Pickett (chair)
  • Dr. Rob Blauuwgeers
  • Dr. Francesco Giazotto
  • Dr. Henri Godfrin
  • Prof. Christian Enss
  • Prof. Teun Klapwijk
  • Prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp
  • Prof. Matti Krusius
  • Prof. John Saunders
  • Dr. Thomas Schurig
  • Dr. Peter Skyba
  • Prof. Dominik Zumbuhl

Management Committee: the executive force of the project, responsible for the management and development of the project, and for the reporting to the EC and the Consortium.

  • Prof. Matti Krusius (chair)
  • Dr. Henri Godfrin
  • Prof. George Pickett

Activity Coordinators: responsible for coordination between activities.

  • TA-Team: Prof. Matti Krusius
  • NA-Team: Dr. Henri Godfrin
  • JRA-Team: Prof. George Pickett

Activity Leaders: responsible for managing the activity and reporting its progress to Activity Coordinator every half year.

  • TA1: Prof. Matti Krusius
  • TA2: Dr. Henri Godfrin
  • TA3: Prof. Shaun Fisher
  • NA1: Prof. Matti Krusius
  • NA2: Prof. Matti Krusius
  • NA3: Dr. Peter Skyba, Prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp, Prof. Dominik Zumbuhl, Dr. Rob Blaauwgeers
  • NA4: Dr. Henri Godfrin
  • JRA1: Prof. George Pickett
  • JRA2: Prof. Jukka Pekola
  • JRA3: Dr. Henri Godfrin
  • JRA4: Prof. Christian Enss

Advisory Board: the international consultative body ensuring the scientific excellence of the project.

  • Prof. Anne Davis, University of Cambridge University, UK
  • Prof. Giorgio Frossati, Leiden Gryogenics, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Andrei Geim, Manchester University, United Kingdom
  • Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Dr. Kimitoshi Kono, Riken, Japan
  • Dr. Li Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Prof. Douglas Osheroff, Stanford University, USA

Management Office: the administrative body responsible for the scientific, financial and administrative management of the project.

  • Project coordinating person: Matti Krusius
  • Administrator: Leena Meilahti
  • Web-officer: Matti Laakso
  • Legal advisor: Otaniemi Innovation Center

Selection Panel: the consultative body ensuring the science-driven evaluation and transparency of the transnational access activities.

  • Prof. Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Dr. Henri Godfrin, CNRS, Grenoble, France
  • Prof. Rudolf Gross, Walther-Meissner-Institut for Low Temperature Research, Garching, Germany
  • Prof. Paul Leiderer, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Prof. Jan Kees Maan, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Matti Krusius (chair), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • Prof. George Pickett, Lancaster University, UK
  • Prof. John Saunders, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK
  • Dr. Peter Skyba, Slovakian Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia

Dissemination Committee: the action group responsible for knowledge and technology transfer.

  • Dr. Henri Godfrin (chair)
  • Dr. Rob Blauuwgeers
  • Dr. Francesco Giazotto
  • Prof. Christian Enss
  • Prof. Teun Klapwijk
  • Prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp
  • Prof. Matti Krusius
  • Prof. George Pickett
  • Prof. John Saunders
  • Dr. Thomas Schurig
  • Dr. Peter Skyba
  • Prof. Dominik Zumbuhl

Objectives

The primary objective of the present project is the opening up of existing European microkelvin facilities, developed for quantum fluids experiments, to allow experimental nanoscience to progress to this new temperature regime.

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Infrastructure

The Microkelvin Collaboration has to be seen as the next evolutionary step in the integration and restructuring of European ultralow temperature infrastructure.

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