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Invited speakers

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MARCO AJELLO

Assistant Professor, Clemson University

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XAVIER BARCONS

ESO General Director

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ROGER BLANDFORD

Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics

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CATHERINE CESARSKY

Former president of the IAU, Director General of the ESO (1999-2007). Chairman of the Board of SKA

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ROLAND CROCKER

Associate Professor at Australian National University

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ANNE DECOURCHELLE

Astrophysicist at CEA Saclay, member of the Athena Science Study Team, co-chair of the Athena Science Working Group on Observatory Science

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CHRIS DONE

Professor at Durham University and member of the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy

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JOHN ELLIS

Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London

Theoretical Physicist at CERN

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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FEDERICO FIUZA

Staff Scientist and Theory Group Leader at SLAC

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REINHARD GENZEL

Director at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Honorary Professor of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and Full Professor in the Physics Department of the University of California, Berkeley

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GIANCARLO GHIRLANDA

National Institute of Astrophysics INAF · Astronomical Observatory of Brera

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GABRIELE GHISELLINI

National Institute of Astrophysics INAF · Astronomical Observatory of Brera

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FRANCIS HALZEN

Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor at the University Wisconsin-Madison

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WERNER HOFMANN

Director of Max Planck for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
Spokesperson of CTA

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JAMIE HOLDER

Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware

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PETRA HÜNTEMEYER

Professor at Michigan Tech

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TAKAAKI KAJITA

Director of Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Tokyo

2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics

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ROBERT LAING

European Instrument Scientist, Square Kilometer Array

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JULIE McENERY

Fermi Project Scientist - Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, Astrophysics Science Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. -Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland's College Park campus

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RENE ONG

Professor at University of California Los Angeles

Co-Spokesperson of CTA

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LUIGI PIRO

Director of research at IAPS, INAF in Rome

Member of the Athena Science Study Team (ASST)

X-IFU Co-PI.

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SUBIR SARKAR

Head of Particle Theory Group, University of Oxford

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ANATOLY SPITKOVSKY

Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Director of Graduate Studies, Princeton University

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VOLKER SPRINGEL

Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching

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MATTHIAS STEINMETZ

Scientific chairman of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and Director of the research area Extragalactic Astrophysics

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ANDREW TAYLOR

Staff-scientist researcher at DESY

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RAINER WEISS

Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics

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WOLFGANG WILD

CTA Project Manager

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