
Invited speakers

Assistant Professor, Clemson University
MARCO AJELLO

ESO General Director
XAVIER BARCONS

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

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

Associate Professor at Australian National University
ROLAND CROCKER

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

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

Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London
Theoretical Physicist at CERN
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
JOHN ELLIS

Staff Scientist and Theory Group Leader at SLAC
FEDERICO FIUZA

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
REINHARD GENZEL

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

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

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

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

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

Professor at Michigan Tech
PETRA HÜNTEMEYER

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

European Instrument Scientist, Square Kilometer Array
ROBERT LAING

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
JULIE McENERY

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

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

Head of Particle Theory Group, University of Oxford
SUBIR SARKAR

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

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

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

Staff-scientist researcher at DESY
ANDREW TAYLOR

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

CTA Project Manager