Prof. Ing. Nicholas Sammut B.Eng.(Hons) (Melit.), M.Ent. (Melit.), Ph.D. (Melit.), Eur.Ing., M.I.E.E.E. defended his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Malta in 2006 in collaboration with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). He is known for setting up the national cooperation agreement between Malta and CERN and between Malta and the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as several other institutional collaborations that enabled participation in the development of research infrastructures like the Swiss Light Source, the Swiss X-Ray Free Electron Laser, and ITER. Prof. Sammut has also contributed to a wide range of international boards including the EU Competitiveness Council, Euratom, ERAC, ESFRI, the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UN-CSTD), the F4E Governing Board, the JRC Governing Board, the ESA Governing Board, the Committee on the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), and several others. Locally, he is also known for turning around and boosting the national science, technology, research and innovation council and for launching the national interactive science center (Esplora). Prof. Sammut’s research interests mostly include accelerator technology, microsystems, instrumentation and measurement of magnetic devices amongst others. He served as the deputy dean of the Faculty of ICT and is currently heading the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the University of Malta.

Marco Calvi is an accelerator physicist working since 2009 at the Photon Science Division of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). He received his PhD in 2004 at the University of Geneva in the Department of Quantum Material Physics under the supervision of Prof. R. Flükiger. Then, he started his career at CERN during the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the domain of high-field superconducting magnets. Later, he moved to EPFL for joining the ITER project and the cold cable tests of its superconducting Tokamak. At the beginning of the SwissFEL project, Dr. Calvi was hired by PSI to work on the undulator system of its first hard X-ray beamline, Aramis. Today, after more than 10 years, he is a senior scientist in the domain of accelerator-based light sources, both synchrotrons and FELs. His favorite research field is high-temperature superconducting undulators (HTSU). His institutional responsibilities include serving as the Athos Beamline Sub-Project leader for the Elliptically Polarised Undulators project, the Apple X Type High-Temperature Superconducting Undulator (HTSU) project leader, spokesperson for the Working Group on Photon Sources of the LEAPS initiative, and being responsible for superconducting magnets in light sources within the Swiss Accelerator Research and Technology (CHART) initiative.