Prof. Sydney Gales

Curator and author

Prof. Dr. Gales Sydney

Research Director (DRCE) –CNRS (France) & “Extraordinary” Professor of Physics ,University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Figure 1: Sydney Gales

1969 Assistant Professor, Orsay University (France)
1970 Research fellow at the Institute of Nuclear Physics *Orsay (IPNO) Center of National Scientific Research (CNRS, France)
1970-1972 « Research Associate” Laboratory of Nuclear Physics University of Montreal (Canada).
1972 Research staff member at IPNO, CNRS (France)
1978-1979 Post-doctoral fellow at Michigan State University (USA)
1980-1987 Principal investigator of International Collaborations and stays in the main center of Nuclear Physics around the world: MSU& IUCF (USA), JINR-Dubna(Russia), RCNP Osaka& INS Tokyo (Japan)

1986-1994 Project leader of AGOR and member of the board of directors of the project. AGOR (Accelerator Groningen-ORsay) Collaboration CNRS (France)-FOM(Netherlands). Design and construction of the first European super-conducting cyclotron. Budget (without salaries) 18M€. Personnel: 50 physicists, engineers, techs

1992-2008 Professor « extraordinary » of Physics at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

1995-1999 Chairman of NuPECC (NuclearPhysics European Collaboration Committee) : Expert committee of European Science Foundation (15 countries)Coordinate and impulse the collaborations and projects of Nuclear Physics and its applications within Europe.

Member of the OECD working group on large-scale facilities and perspectives of subatomic physics for the next century.

1994-2002 Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Orsay 450 staff members (110 physicists, 280 Eng, Tech, Admn, 60 PhD students and foreign visitors).Budget : 6M€ ( running expenses and Investments)

Member Board of directors, National Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics (IN2P3/CNRS, France)
Member Board of directors GANIL
Chair of scientific council of GANIL (1998-2001)
Member Board of directors of the European Center for Theoretical Physics (ECT* , Trento , Italy, 1997-2000)
2003 -2005 Chair of the French Scientific Council for particle ,nuclear and Astroparticles Physics (IN2P3/CNRS,FRANCE)
Chair of the steering committee for scientific and technical issues of the International Facility FAIR at GSI (Germany)
Chair of the review committee of RIKEN –RIB Facility (Japan)
Member of the PAC and of the Scientific advisory committee of KVI (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Member of the International Steering Committee of SPIRAL II at GANIL
Member of the Editorial Board of Physical review C (2003-2005)

April-Nov 2004 Chair of the national workshop and of the organizing committee “Prospective of Nuclear and High Energy Physics for the next Ten years 2005-2015 ( IN2P3-CNRS-DSM-CEA,FRANCE)

Member of IUPAP C12 Committee
Member of the OECD working group on NP
Coordinator of ERANET- NuPNET funded project under FP7 program: A European Nuclear Physics funding Agencies coordination committee
Member of the PAC and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of KVI *(Groningen, The Netherlands)
Chair of the review committee of Nishina Center for Accelerator Base science RIKEN (Japan)
Member of the RIKEN Advisory Committee (Japan)
Member of the Scientific Council of JINR Dubna (Russia)
Member of International Advisory Committee of the IPAN Kracow (Poland)
Member of International Advisory Committee for the National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL--IAC),China

Member of the editorial board of « Nuclear Instruments &Methods » (Elsevier) (1994-2002)
Editor of « Nuclear Physics News International » (1993-1998)
Referee for Physical Review & Review Letters (APS), Physics Letters & Nuclear Physics (Elsevier) 1980- to day
Member of many scientific advisory or review committees of major nuclear physics laboratories around the world (EUROPE, Japan, USA, Russia, Korea…)
Chairman and/or board member of more than 100 scientific organization committees of International Conferences, School or Workshops (1998-2008)
Judge in the Jury for the “International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences” (IADAS) ,Webby Awards”, New York (1999-to day)

More than 140 publications in scientific journals with referees
More than 100 invited papers and lectures in International Conferences, Workshops and schools
More than 100 seminars and colloquiums in institutes and Universities worldwide.