CERN Accelerating science

Dr. Antoine DAEL – (M). Graduated in 1970 from the French High School «École Supérieure d’Électricité», A. Dael started his professional activities on magnetic measurements on the very first Superconducting accelerator dipole magnets prototypes in CEA Saclay. In 1972, he joined CNRS Orsay as project leader of the beam transfer lines for the 1.8 GeV electron-positon colliding rings DCI. In 1976, he became system engineer for the large separated sector cyclotrons of the GANIL Laboratory in Caen (France). This set of 8 magnets of 400 tons each was at the frontier edge of Heavy ions accelerators. In 1982, he was nominated head of the magnet group for the synchrotron radiation source Super ACO in Orsay, dedicated to VUV experiments. He designed the accelerator magnets, developed customized magnetic measurement benches and was in charge of the design and construction of Insertion devices: Permanent Magnets undulators and wigglers. In 1989, he was recruited by CEA Saclay as project leader of the high homogeneity Solenoid for the SMC Experiment on the SPS accelerator at CERN. In 1992, he leaded the contract of two superconducting quadrupole magnets for the Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia (USA).

From 1994 to 2001, he was Project leader of the barrel toroid magnet for the ATLAS experiment, a huge superconducting magnet of 25m in length and 20m in diameter. He leaded an international team and completed the design based on an innovative warm structure solution as well as the prototyping of the BÆ coil, and it’s testing at CERN.

From 2001 to 2005 he was Head of magnetism and insertion group at Synchrotron SOLEIL–France, for the design, construction and measurements of 440 electromagnets with industrial contracts up to 11 M€. He also designed innovative insertions devices.

From 2005 to 2014, he was Head of the Accelerator, Cryogenics and Magnetism Division at CEA Saclay (130 people). He was the supervisor of magnet projects: R3B-GLAD, ISEULT, Super FRS, FAIR and the supervisor of the design and construction of components for several accelerator projects: SPIRAL2, IFMIF, IPHI, ESS, and XFEL. During this period he has established the large R&D center for accelerators and magnets so called « the Synergium ».

Since 2014, Antoine DAËL is the French ILO (« Industry liaison officer ») for CERN in Switzerland and ESS in Sweden and has been mandated by CERN and CEA to launch the FuSuMaTech Initiative.

He will be the Coordinator of FuSuMaTech Phase 1 and leader of the WP1 & WP3.

Dr. Denis Le Bihan – (M). Dr. Le Bihan holds an M.D. (Neurosurgery and Radiology) and a Ph.D in Physics (Nuclear and Elementary Particles). Since 1987 he has hold positions in the USA (NIH, Bethesda, Maryland and Georgetown University, Washington, DC), France (CEA) and Japan (Kyoto University). In 2007 he became the Founding Director of NeuroSpin, a new Institute of the French CEA aimed at developing and using ultra high field Magnetic Resonance to understand the brain. Dr. Le Bihan is especially credited with inventing, developing and introducing into research and clinical practice the concept of diffusion MRI, a new and powerful approach to study normal and diseased brain anatomy and function, as well as brain wiring. He has received many awards, such as the Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and French Academy of Sciences, the Louis D. Award of the Institut de France, the Honda Prize and Louis Jeantet Foundation Award. Dr Le Bihan is a full member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Technologies, and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Pharmacy and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine.

He will be the medical & scientific advisor for all the tasks related to High field MRI.

Dr. Pierre Vedrine – (M). PhD in electrical engineering (1990). Scientist and project manager on different superconducting magnet projects for LHC (quadrupole magnets, ATLAS toroid barrel magnet) and MRI (Iseult). Since 2014, he is Head of Accelerator, cryogenics and magnetism division (SACM) at IRFU.

Dr. Thierry Schild – (M). T. Schild obtained his engineering degree from Supélec in 1994. After five years in fusion magnet at CEA/Cadarache, he moved to IRFU in 1998 where he participated to the development of the W7-X magnet test facility. After leading the preliminary study of the Iseult MRI magnet, the today largest project in MRI field in the world, he has taken in charge the R&D phase of the project. Since 2014, he is the Iseult project manager. Currently under construction, the delivery is scheduled for 2017 on the CEA/Saclay site. He has also created a R&D program on MgB2 in partnership with SigmaPhi, within IRFU, which aims to develop dry magnet technologies.

Thierry Schild will contribute technically to all the tasks related to MRI and to the MgB2 technology.

Dr. Christophe Mayri – (M). Christophe Mayri obtained his engineering degree from the French High School Arts et Métiers in 1991. He started his career at CEA Saclay working as cryogenic engineer on different projects (Chechia, Cebaf quadrupoles and Atlas barrel magnet). In 2001 he became the system engineer of the ATLAS barrel toroid project in collaboration with CERN and in parallel the project leader of the cryogenic distribution ring for this magnet. He is presently the project leader of R3B-Glad, a large dipole magnet for a nuclear physics spectrometer at GSI in Germany which will be commissioned in 2017 and project leader of the JT-60SA pre-assembly project , the new Japanese tokamak. Since 2015 he is head of Cryogenic and Test Facility Unit, a group of XX engineers and YY technicians at CEA Saclay operating large cryogenic facilities.