Harald Reichert Director of Research in Physical Sciences, European Synchrotron Research Facility - ESRF Address: CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France E-mail: reichert@esrf.fr URL: http://www.esrf.eu

Expertise : Harald Reichert, Director of Research in Physical Sciences at the European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) since 1 January 2009, was born in Schweinfurt (Germany) in 1963. He holds a doctorate in Physics from the University of Munich obtained in 1995and has been performing research in condensed matter with synchrotron radiation since then. After graduation he went first to the University of Houston (USA) before moving briefly to the University of Wuppertal (Germany) and finally to a position at the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart (Germany) where he spent 11 years in developing methods for the study of deeply buried structures. In the past 15 years he became one of the leading experts for the exploitation of high energy X-rays for materials science including the development of dedicated instrumentation. He has published approximately 80 scientific publications in refereed journals and joined the ESRF in 2009 as Director of Research During his mandate at the ESRF he is responsible for the renewal of the beamline portfolio of the ESRF and the development of a long-term scientific strategy for the facility in the context of an upgrade of the source to a near diffraction limited light source. He is a member of numerous advisory bodies for X-ray science around the world.