Session 3
Accelerators and Superconducting Magnets

The "Accelerators and Superconducting Magnets" session will dive into the interplay between RIs, TIs, and private companies for advancing state-of-the-art accelerator science and technology. The discussion will explore how these collaborations drive innovation forward and foster the growth of accelerator and superconducting technologies across diverse sectors.

The session is structured in two parts. First, it will extract key insights from previous collaborations and activities, highlighting successful examples of collaborative technology development and technology transfer from research and technology infrastructures to other sectors. In the second part, we will examine the impact of public funding mechanisms and host a panel debate on how to optimizing future collaboration frameworks. The panel will desciss strategies for creating robust innovation ecosystems, by ensuring proper incentives for private sector engagement and minimizing the financial and technological risks for participating companies and organisations

Programme

Meeting room: Magrethe

09:00–10:15 – Industrial Impact from TI and RI Engagement
Moderator: Henrik Bak Jeppesen, DTI

Superconducting MRI magnets, Pierre Vedrine, CEA
Knowledge and technology transfer: Cases from GSI and HiActs, Martina Bauer, GSI
High-temperature superconducting current feedthroughs for Big Science, fusion, and energy transport, Torben Ekvall, Mark & Wedell
Industrial magnets development: From CERN to F4E to US fusion market, Julio Lucas, Elytt Energy

10:15–10:45 – Break

10:45–12:00 – Supporting the Technology Transition from RTIs to Industry

Moderator: Catarina Sahlberg, BigScienceSweden

Impact of 20 years of EU-funding for European Accelerator R&D, Maurizio Vretenar, CERN
Panel discussion: Pierre Vedrine (CEA), Julio Lucas (Elytt Energy), Rafaella Geometrante (KYMA Undulators), Sabine Brock (Hi-Acts), Elena Hoffert (Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France)

Speakers and panelists

Pierre Vedrine

CEA

Dr. Pierre Vedrine is Deputy Director of CEA/Irfu and head of the Accelerators, Cryogenics and Magnetism Department (DACM), where he has worked since 1990. He has served as scientist and project manager on major superconducting magnet projects including LHC quadrupole magnets and the ATLAS toroid barrel magnet, and was project manager of the 11.7T-MRI magnet system for the Iseult/Inumac project from 2005 to 2014.

Martina Bauer

GSI

Martina Bauer is Deputy Head of Technology Transfer at GSI, Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research.

Torben Ekvall

Mark&Wedell

Torben Ekvall is Co-CEO and Owner at Mark & Wedell A/S, with 25 years of international business experience in executive roles across Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Power Generation, and Automation. He has developed expertise in the Big Science niche market over the past 5+ years, including work on high-temperature superconducting current feedthroughs for Big Science, fusion and energy transport applications

Julio Lucas

Elytt Energy

Julio Lucas is Director Técnico at ELYTT Energy S.L., a company he founded specializing in energy and particle accelerator technologies, with clients including ITER, CIEMAT, and CERN. An electrical engineer who joined CERN in 1996 at age 26, he was responsible for almost 300 meters of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during his seven-year tenure there. He now leads high-technology projects through Elytt Energy, which operates with an engineering unit in Madrid and manufacturing unit in the Basque Country.

Maurizio Vretenar

CERN

Maurizio Vretenar is Project Leader for High Technology and Science at CERN and Coordinator of the EuCARD2, ARIES, and IFAST European Projects supporting particle accelerator R&D and innovation, involving more than 40 participants with 2.5M Euro/year EC contribution. An accelerator physicist at CERN since 1988, he led the construction of Linac4, the 160 MeV linear injector for the CERN accelerator complex, and currently leads the Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) initiative for accelerators in cancer therapy.

Rafaella Geometrante

AIPF, Kyma

Raffaella Geometrante is Managing Director of Kyma SpA (Italy) and Kyma tehnologija doo (Slovenia), companies specializing in permanent magnet devices crucial for advancing synchrotrons and Free Electron Lasers. She co-chairs the AIPF (Accelerator Industry Permanent Forum), bridging industry and research in accelerator science, and serves on the Board of Directors of Kyma S.p.A. with a focus on innovation and international expansion.

Elena Hoffert

French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

Dr. Elena Hoffert is a scientific advisor for research infrastructures at the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research, where she coordinates the national contribution to the ESFRI roadmap update and serves as French Delegate to the Horizon Europe Program Committee on research infrastructures. She is ESFRI Vice-chair and represents France in key international fora including the G7 Group of Senior Officials on research infrastructures and the GSF/OCDE sub-group on research infrastructures.

Sabine Brock

Industry Relations Manager, DESY

Organizing committee