The impact of RIs and TIs on industry and society
Speakers and panelists
Dr. Valero brings 25+ years of experience in research and tech transfer. He holds a PhD in Biology and a Master in Marketing, with special expertise in biotech management. 2014-19 he led TECNALIA’s Health Division and was responsible for the FIK initiative, a Private-Public 24 Million € investment partnership in the Basque Country for the development, transfer and commercialization of medical devices. Since 2021, he has been Managing Director of TECNALIA and, in 2025, was elected President of EARTO, the European RTO association.
Managing Director, Tecnalia & President of EARTO, European Association of Research and Technology Organisations
Jesús Valero
Mike Lamont has been CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology since 2021, steering the teams responsible for the operation and upgrade of the world’s most versatile accelerator complex. A CERN fellow since 1989, he has helped guide the Laboratory from the LEP era to the LHC, leading accelerator operations and the Physics Beyond Colliders initiative along the way.
Director of Accelerators and Technology, CERN
Mike Lamont
Monika Fuller is the Vice President for Vehicles and Automation department at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), where one focus area is on strengthening Europe’s innovation capacity through the development of technology infrastructures. With experience from working at major global manufacturers and test houses across Europe, she brings a deep understanding of industry’s needs and challenges. At RISE, she drives collaboration between research, industry, and society to foster sustainable growth and competitiveness.
Vice President, Vehicles and Automation, RISE
Monika Fuller
Britta Redlich is chemist and Professor of experimental physics. After completing her studies and doctorate in Germany, Britta Redlich spent more than two decades researching and working in the Netherlands, where she most recently headed the FELIX free-electron laser and the HFML high-field magnet laboratory at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Among other things, she is a board member of the Dutch Physics Council, Senator of the Helmholtz Association for the Research Field Matter and a member of international consortia such as LEAPS, LaserLab Europe and FELs of Europe.
Director in charge of Photon Science, DESY
Britta Redlich
Johan Hederstierna is Vice President at Volvo Group Trucks Technology, where he leads vehicle and component testing across the Volvo Group’s truck portfolio. His work focuses on advancing safety, sustainability and customer value for innovative transport solutions.
Vice President, Volvo Group Trucks Technology
Johan Hederstierna
Chief Science Officer and co-founder, Momentum Transfer
Bernd Hinrichsen
Migratory background: born in Namibia, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, studied in Cologne, PhD in Stuttgart, worked the past 14 years at BASF running central labs which outsourced important work to synchrotrons via intermediaries. Since August is the founder of one, which performs ultra-high throughput X-ray scattering at the ESRF and is building capacities at DESY.
Director, Danish Technological Institute
Nikolaj Zangenberg
Secretary General, Eurotech Universities
Sophie Viscido