Commissie Hercules-Science
The Hercules Science Commission assesses the scientific quality of the submitted proposals for large-scale research infrastructure and ranks the excellent ones.
In execution of Article 10 of the Hercules Regulation, and for the selection of investment initiatives concerning large-scale research infrastructure, the Flemish Minister of Economy, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade appointed on June 30, 2008 the members of the Hercules Science Commission on the proposal of the Board of directors of the Hercules Foundation.
Considering the results of the evaluation of the first call for large scale research infrastructures, in particular the desirability to enlarge the Commission Hercules
Science with scientists working in clinical research and in social sciences and humanities, the Flemish Minister for Science and Innovation appointed two additional members of the Commission, proposed by the Board of Directors of the Herculesfoundation.
The internal functioning of the Hercules Science Commission is regulated by its code of order, which was ratified by the minister on November 13, 2008.
The following persons were appointed as effective members:
- Dr. Renate Bilewicz
Chemistry Professor at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland - Dr. Lars Börjesson
Director of the laboratory of material physics of the Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden, Secretary -General infrastructure of the Swedish Research Council, Member of the Executive Board of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) - Dr. Doris Keitel-Schultz
Director of Qimonda AG, Germany - Dr. Victor Lamzin
Vice-Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) department, Hamburg, Germany - Dr. Peter Ph. Mohler
Director of the Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA) of the GESIS – Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastrucktureinrichtungen e.V., Germany - Dr. Friedrich Pfeiffer (President)
Professor emeritus at the Technical University München, Germany - Dr. Frans Spaepen
John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, U.S.A. - Dr. Bernhard Plattner
Prof. at ETH Zürich Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, Switzerland - Dr. Lesley Yellowlees
Professor inorganic electrochemistry at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Head of the School for Chemistry, President of the Science Policy Board of the British Royal Society of Chemistry - Dr. Patricia Price, Ralston Paterson Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
The following persons were appointed as deputy members:
- Dr. Juha Aysto
Professor of high energy physics at the Jyväskylän Yliopisto (University of Jyväskylän), Finland; Director of the Program Nucleair Physics of the Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland; Member of the Scientific Policy Committee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland - Dr. Gregory Boebinger
Director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, U.S.A. - Dr. Aart Kleyn
Director of the FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica Rijnhuizen, The Netherlands - Dr. Marina A. Petrukhina
Professor of chemistry at the State University of New-York at Albany, U.S.A. - Dr. Manfred Ruhle
Head of the department of the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Germany - Dr. Alexandra Slawin (Deputy President)
Professor of chemical crystallography at the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom - Dr. Jenny Thomas
Professor of physics at University College London, United Kingdom
Vice – President of the Science Board van de Science & Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom - Dr. Colin Whitehouse
Director of the Daresbury Laboratory of Science & Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom; Vice-Director, Director campus strategy and member of the Board of Directors of the Science & Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom; member of the Board of Directors of Sheffield University Enterprises Ltd., United Kingdom - Dr. Lothar Willmitzer
Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Germany - Dr. Nancy Ide, Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, U.S.A.