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Tabea Arndt holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. After working at Vacuumschmelze GmbH/Hanau, EAS & EHTS/Hanau, Bruker Biospin/Hanau and Siemens Corporate Technology/Erlangen, in 2019 she joined KIT/Karlsruhe/Germany, faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as a co-director of the Institute of Technical Physics leading the research field “Superconducting Magnet Technology”. She worked in a variety of public funded and industrial projects (NMR-, MRI-, laboratory and industrial magnets and applications in Electrical Engineering like SFCL, Motors/Generators and cables). She was member/board member/ chairperson of Conectus, ISIS and representative to ESAS and now serves as the curator of the German Ministry of Economy and Climate’s Research Field “High-Temperature Superconductivity” in “Energy Efficiency in Industry”. Since 2008 she is a delegate to the IEA TCP HTS. For a number of years she served as a member/deputy chair of an engineering review panel for ERC-grants and as a reviewer for several foundations and state organizations. Since 2021, her research field at ITEP coordinates a collaborative research project on HTS and liquid hydrogen within the German National Hydrogen Strategy. Recently, the research team is addressing challenges in applications of windings and magnets based on 2G-HTS, again.

Kévin Berger received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. His main research topics concern the study of superconducting cables in the railway network and the magnetization of HTS bulks for practical applications such as electrical motors. He is also interested in the potential new bulk materials such as YBCO foams, MgB2 and iron-based superconductors.

After his Ph.D. in 2016, he worked two years at G2ELab and Néel Institute in Grenoble with Prof. Pascal Tixador on the design and realization of an 800 kJ HTS SMES, the first conduction-cooled SMES realized in Europe. Having spent one year in the industry (Exxelia Group) designing magnetic components for aircraft and space applications, he reached an associate professor position at the University of Lorraine, Group of Research in Electrical Engineering of Nancy (GREEN), in France since 2010. He is the author of five book chapters and more than sixty peer-reviewed international journal articles. He is still involved in the development of analytical and numerical tools and is the organizing Committee Chair of the 8th edition of the International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High Temperature Superconductors, to be held in Nancy, France, from June 14th to 16th, 2022, https://htsmod2022.sciencesconf.org.

Dr. Berger is currently engaged in two H2020 projects: IMOTHEP related to the “Future propulsion and integration: towards a hybrid/electric aircraft” and SMAGRINET regarding “Smart grid competence hub for boosting research, innovation and educational capacities for energy transition”, https://www.smagrinet.eu. Since many years, he is an expert in the TC 90 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) which prepare International Standards (IS) related to superconducting materials and devices.

Rémi Dorget was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France in 1996. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, in 2019. He is currently PhD candidate with Safran tech in the “Electrical and Electronic Systems Research group” and the University of Lorraine within the “Groupe de Recherche en Energie Electrique de Nancy, GREEN”. His research topics are the design, the construction and the tests of superconducting electrical machines for aircraft applications.

Pascal Febvre has been working on superconducting electronics since 1991 after receiving his diploma of Physics and Chemistry from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI). He developed THz superconducting (SIS) receivers at the Observatory of Paris in France from 1991 to 1997 for balloon-borne experiments with the French, Swedish and European Space Agencies, and at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) in Pasadena for an airborne experiment in 1992-1993. He joined the laboratory of Microwave and Characterization at Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France in 1997 as a tenure-track associate-professor to work on fast superconducting digital electronics (SFQ electronics) for scientific and telecommunication applications. Current developments are focused on digital magnetometers for geophysics applications and software tools for digital circuits. P. Febvre has authored over 180 international journal and conference papers. He is Senior Member of IEEE and President of the European FLUXONICS Society since 2013. He is involved since 2004 in the dissemination of superconducting electronics in Europe through the regular organization of workshops, conferences and summer schools.

Kiruba S. Haran (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife City, Nigeria, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electric power engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2000.

He is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Illinois, Urbana– Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. He spent 13 years with GE Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA, as a Senior Engineer and a Manager with Electrical Machines Laboratory devloping and validating megawatt scale superconducting machines for airborne power systems. His research interests include high-specific-power electrical machines and drives, with both superconducting and noncryogenic approaches. He has over 20 years of experience in developing electric machinery and is a co-founder of Hinetics LLC (spin-off of UIUC) focusing on compact air-core electric technology.

Susana Izquierdo Bermudez is currently a staff scientist in the Superconducting Magnets and Cryostats Group at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. After graduating in Energy and Mechanical Engineering at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganes, Spain, in 2010, she joined the CERN Magnet group to work on the preparation activities for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) First Long Shut down. In 2012 she started working in the Magnet Design and Technology Section, on the development of high field Nb3Sn accelerator magnets. Since 2020, she is responsible of the Nb3Sn inner triplet quadrupole magnets for the HiLumi LHC.

Mr. Mikko Kiviranta received his MSc in Technical Physics from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1992. He is a graduate school dropout. He currently holds the position of Principal Scientist at the VTT Technology Research Centre of Finland Ltd. He has designed dc SQUIDs and worked with SQUID-based systems for more than three decades, from doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-0581-1_150 to doi:10.1063/5.0066240, with an emphasis on the practical aspects of the SQUID use.

Thomas George McConkey joined IBMQuantum three years ago as a microwave design engineer, working on a number of quantum chip designs and developing the open source quantum-EDA tool, Qiskit Metal. Thomas had completed a PhD in 2018 at the University of Waterloo / IQC on the project of ‘Extensible Architecture for Superconducting Quantum Computing’ as a member of the Digital Quantum Matter group. Additionally, he took part in a number of science outreach activities, ranging from running of ‘cryogenic experiments’ for IQC summer school programs to consulting on ‘QUANTUM: The Exhibit’.

Antonio Morandi holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Since 2006 he is with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering where is professor of Electrical Engineering, Electric Energy Storage and Applied Superconductivity. He is supervisor of PhD programs on Applied Superconductivity. His research interests are on power applications of High Temperature Superconductors and advanced energy systems. He has coordinated several research projects in this field funded by Public Agencies and by private companies and has contributed to the prototyping of superconducting power apparatus (FCL and SMES) and to the development of modelling and design tools. Antonio Morandi is author of more than 60 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. He is inventor of three patents. He is reviewer of research projects in the energy sector for the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of University and Research and foreign research institutes. He has given several invited talks at international conferences and research associations and is member of several program committees in international conferences. Antonio Morandi is member of the ESAS – European Society for Applied Superconductivity board. He is member of the Italian mirror Committee IEC TC90 – Superconductivity and is member of the International Steering Committee on HTS Modeling. He has been the chairman of International Workshop HTSModelling2016 and will co-chair the 16th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity – EUCAS 2023, to be hosted in Bologna, Italy from 3 – 7 September 2023. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity.

Carmine Senatore was appointed head of the Group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2010. He received his MSc degree cum laude in Physics in 2000 and his doctoral degree in 2004 at the University of Salerno, Italy. His formation as solid state physicist was focused on the vortex dynamics in high-Tc superconductors. Presently, his primary activity is on superconducting materials for large-scale applications. The research of Prof. Senatore is driven by the challenge to understand and control the basic properties required for the practical implementation of superconductors. This includes all material aspects that play a role in tuning the superconductor properties as well as innovative approaches to the processing of superconducting wires and tapes. His activities focus on the development of both low- and high-Tc superconductors for applications in various fields, from the high field magnets for NMR/MRI systems and particle accelerators to the emerging applications in the electric power infrastructure. Recently, his group has developed and tested in collaboration with Bruker BioSpin a superconducting coil able to generate a magnetic field of 25 Tesla. Senatore also takes part in the CERN study for the next generation accelerator magnets in view of a 100 TeV energy-frontier hadron collider.

Tengming Shen is currently a physicist staff scientist with the Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he researches and develops LTS and HTS superconducting magnets and materials for particle accelerators, particle beam therapy, fusion, nuclear physics, and ultrastable cryogenic microscopes. Between 2010 and 2015, he was a Peoples Fellow and a scientist with Fermilab. Dr. Shen obtained his PhD in electrical engineering in 2010 at the Florida State University with a thesis on Ag/Bi-2212 round wires and magnets at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. His work with HTS materials and magnets has earned him several awards, including an early career award from the U.S. Department of Energy, Peoples Fellowship from Fermilab, Cryogenic Materials for Excellence award from the International Cryogenic Materials Conference, and Roger Boom Award from the Cryogenic Society of America. He has been active at ASCs, and serves as a board member and the materials program chair for the ASC2022. He taught the short courses on HTS superconducting materials and magnets at the ASC2016 and ASC2020 and enjoyed the experience.

Herman ten Kate (Dutch, born in 1955) is emeritus professor at the University of Twente where he was educated and stared his carrier in 1980; since 1997 occupying the Chair of Industrial Application of Superconductivity. In addition he worked at CERN from 1996 until his retirement in April 2020 as Magnet System Project Leader of the ATLAS Experiment, comprising the world’s largest operational superconducting magnet of three huge toroidal magnets and a solenoid. With his team he supported other detector magnet developments as well with coordinated R&D for proposed particle physics experiments like for the Future Circular Collider, linear colliders as CLIC/ILC, antimatter detector PANDA, neutrino detector BabyMIND and solar axions detector BabyIAXO. He continued his work at CERN as honorable member at the Experimental Physics Department. In July 2013 he received the IEEE Lifetime Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity. As emeritus professor at the University of Twente he continued his work for guiding PhD students, participating in various magnet review committees, and supporting various R&D projects in collaboration with industries and institutes around the globe.

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