
Invited speakers

MARCO AJELLO
Assistant Professor, Clemson University

XAVIER BARCONS
ESO General Director

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

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

ROLAND CROCKER
Associate Professor at Australian National University

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

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

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

FEDERICO FIUZA
Staff Scientist and Theory Group Leader at SLAC

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

GIANCARLO GHIRLANDA
National Institute of Astrophysics INAF · Astronomical Observatory of Brera

GABRIELE GHISELLINI
National Institute of Astrophysics INAF · Astronomical Observatory of Brera

FRANCIS HALZEN
Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor at the University Wisconsin-Madison

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

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

PETRA HÜNTEMEYER
Professor at Michigan Tech

TAKAAKI KAJITA
Director of Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Tokyo
2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics

ROBERT LAING
European Instrument Scientist, Square Kilometer Array

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

RENE ONG
Professor at University of California Los Angeles
Co-Spokesperson of CTA

LUIGI PIRO
Director of research at IAPS, INAF in Rome
Member of the Athena Science Study Team (ASST)
X-IFU Co-PI.

SUBIR SARKAR
Head of Particle Theory Group, University of Oxford

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

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

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

ANDREW TAYLOR
Staff-scientist researcher at DESY

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

WOLFGANG WILD
CTA Project Manager