Sydney Galès#
| Membership Number: | 3256 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- April2017 - today Chair of General Program Advisory committee (G-PAC) GSI-FAIR
- Chair Scientific and Technical review committee of iThemba LABS (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Nominated Prof. Judah Einsenberg - Annual Memorial Lecture 2019 School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University (Israel)
- Member of the International nomination Committee for IBS Directorship ( South Korea)
- July 2016 - today Scientific Advisor to the Director IFIN-HH/ELI-N and Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of ELI-NP project
- April 2013 – July 2016 Scientific Director of the High Power Laser and Gammas Large Scale Facility project
- ELI- NP (Bucharest, Romania) until July 2016.
- March 2012 - April 2013 Coordinator of International in-kind contributions for the FAIR Project (GSI-De)
- Member of the ELI- Coordination Committee Board until July 2016
- Member of International Advisory Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on site assessment committee for Nuclear Physics
- Member of the S-FRS@NUSTAR-FAIR management board (Germany)
- Member of the Scientific Council of JINR Dubna (Russia)
- Member of the Physics and Engineering section of Academia Europeae
- Chair of the review committee of Nishina Centre for Accelerator Base science RIKEN (Japan)
- Member of the International Advisory Committee of Korean Radioactive Ion Science Project (Korea)
- Member of the EPS Advisory Board on Science Policies
- Member of the IZEST collaboration
- 2012/02 - present Director of research (classe exceptionelle) CNRS (France)
- 2005/07 - 2011/12 Director of large scale facility GANIL (Caen, France)
- 2004/11-2012/01 Deputy Director, National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle physics (IN2P3), CNRS (France)
- 1994 - 2002 Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Orsay (IPNO)
- 1992 - 2008 Professor "extraordinary" of Physics at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
- 1986 - 1994 Project leader of AGOR and member of the board of directors of the project AGOR (Accélérateur Groningen-ORsay)
- 1980 - 1987 Principal investigator/International Collaborations and extended stays at MSU& IUCF (USA), JINR-Dubna (Russia), RCNP
- 1978 - 1980 Post-doctoral fellow at Michigan State University (USA)
- 1972 - 1978 Research staff member at IPNO, CNRS (France)
- 1970 - 1972 Research Associate at Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, University of Montreal (Canada)
- 1969 - 1970 Research fellow at IPNO, CNRS (France)
- Others appointments
- Member of the editorial board of « Nuclear Instruments & Methods » (Elsevier) (1994-2002)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Physical review C (2003-2005)
- Editor of « Nuclear Physics News International » (1993-1998)
- Referee for Physical Review & Review Letters (APS), Physics Letters & Nuclear Physics (Elsevier) 1980- to day
- Chairman and/or board member of more than 100 scientific organization committees of International Conferences, School or Workshops (1998-2014)
- Judge in the Jury for the “International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences” (IADAS), Webby Awards”, New York (1999 - today)
- Member Editorial Board “Progress of theoretical and experimental Physics journal”, Japan Physical society
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear physics and applications
- Nuclear structure: single-particle and collective modes of excitation; isobaric analog states; exotic nuclei
- Nuclear reactions: direct transfer reactions; elastic and inelastic scattering; charge-exchange reactions
- Nuclear Astrophysics
- Accelerator physics: design and construction
- Nuclear instrumentation (magnetic devices; detectors; diagnostics)
- Exotic nuclear decays
- Radioactive ion beams: production (electro-fission; photo-fission; neutron-induced fission; fusion reactions) and acceleration
- High power Laser (>1PW), Laser Driven QED and Subatomic physics (Extreme Ligth Infrastructure)
- Brilliant and monochromatic gamma beam ( 0.2-20 MeV) for Nuclear Structure
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Fellow European Physical Society
- 2015 Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (France)
- 2014 Grand Prix Felix Robin French Physical Society (SFP, Fr)
- 2012 Elected member Academia Europeae (MAE)
- 2009 Flerov prize (JINR, Dubna, Russia)
- 1997 Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite (France) "Knight of the National Order of Merit"
- 1995 Koninklijke onderscheiding als Officier in de Orde Oranje-Nassau (The Netherlands) "Royal honour as Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau"
- 1978 Medal CNRS (France)
