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Steven M. Anlage is a Professor of Physics and member of the Quantum Materials Center, as well as faculty affiliate of the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1988, respectively. His post-doctoral work with the Beasley-Geballe-Kapitulnik group at Stanford University (1987 – 1990) concentrated on high frequency properties of high temperature superconductors. In 1990 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics in the Center for Superconductivity Research at the University of Maryland, then (1997) Associate Professor, and finally (2002) Full Professor of Physics. He was the interim Director of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (2007-2009), and is a member of the Maryland NanoCenter. In 2011 he was appointed a Research Professor at the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and in 2019 a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University.

His research in high frequency superconductivity has addressed questions of the pairing state symmetry of the cuprate and heavy fermion superconductors, the dynamics of conductivity fluctuations and vortices, and microwave applications including several generations of superconducting metamaterials, most recently studying rf SQUID metamaterials. He has also developed and patented a near-field scanning microwave microscope for quantitative local measurements of electronic materials (dielectrics, semiconductors, metals), and developed a version that images the local nonlinear properties of superconductors. Prof. Anlage utilizes superconductors to enhance studies of photonic topological insulators and wave-chaotic microwave resonators.

Dr. Anlage is a member of the American Physical Society, the IEEE, and the Materials Research Society. His research is funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the US Department of Defense.

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-s, 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.

In 2023, the “Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity, Large Scale” was awarded to her at the MT conference, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Marta Bajko is the section leader at CERN TE-MPE-SF. Graduated as MSc at the Technical University of Budapest as mechanical engineer in 1994, she joint a small research team at CEDEX (Spain) where she learned about Sc magnet design and testing. In 1996 she joint CERN, and worked with Sc magnet design of corrector magnets for the LHC. From 1999 she was responsible for the final assembly steps and the technology transfer from CERN towards industry for the LHC main dipoles. Following that experience, she took the responsibility of the contract follow up for 1/3 of the total number superconducting dipoles produced in the industry for the LHC machine. After 1 year of hardware commissioning of the LHC, she took over the responsibility of the Superconducting Magnet Test facility (SM18) at CERN, that she led till 2020. Today she is the leader of an integrated test facility called the HL-LHC IT STRING, dedicated for the HL-LHC project at CERN.

John Clark was born February 10, 1942, in Cambridge, England. B.A. 1964, M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1968 and Sc.D. 2003 from University of Cambridge. Postdoctoral Fellow Physics Department of the University of California, Berkeley 1968–1969, Assistant Professor 1969-1971, Associate Professor 1971-1973, Professor 1973-2010, Professor of the Graduate School 2010-Present, Senior Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1969-2010.

Learned Societies Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1982; Fellow, American Physical Society, 1985; Fellow, Royal Society of London, 1986; Honorary Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge, England, 1997; Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.), 1999; Foreign Member, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007; International Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2012; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015; Member, American Philosophical Society, 2017; Honorary Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge, England, 2023.

Awards Charles Vernon Boys Prize of the British Institute of Physics, 1977; Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1983; California Scientist of the Year, 1987; Fritz London Memorial Award for Low Temperature Physics, 1987; Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science, American Physical Society, 1998; Comstock Prize in Physics, National Academy of Sciences, 1999; Lounasmaa Prize, Helsinki University of Technology and Finnish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004; Hughes Medal, Royal Society, 2004; Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 2005; The Berkeley Citation, 2011; Micius Quantum Prize, with Devoret and Nakamura, 2021.

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 developing 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.

Kent Irwin is a professor in the physics department at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford. He has developed superconducting quantum sensors for the last thirty years, including the superconducting transition-edge sensors and SQUIDs that are used in all CMB experiments in the field and in TES x-ray spectrometer beamline instruments. He is now the director of the Dark Matter Radio Meter Cubed experiment, which will search for axionic dark matter. He has received awards including recognition as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a NIST Fellow, the APS Keithley Award, the IEEE award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity, the George Washington University Arthur S. Flemming Award, and two Department of Commerce Gold medals, the NIST Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, and the NIST Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award.

Susana Izquierdo Bermudez holds a PhD degree from the University Polytechnical of Madrid. She is currently a staff scientist in the Superconducting Magnets and Cryostats Group at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. She joined the CERN Magnet group in 2010 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. As of 2024, Susana leads the Large Magnet Facility section at CERN, overseeing the construction of magnets and cold masses for the HL-LHC project..

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 has co-chaired the 16th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity – EUCAS 2023, 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.

Britton Plourde received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 studying vortex dynamics in superconductors. From 2000 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley where he worked on experiments with superconducting flux qubits. In 2005, he joined the Department of Physics at Syracuse University where he runs a low-temperature research lab investigating various aspects of superconducting circuits for quantum information processing. Plourde’s key contributions to the physics and operation of superconducting qubits and related circuits include the development of tools for qubit control and readout, and investigations of decoherence mechanisms and mitigation techniques for improved qubit performance. Prof. Plourde is a Fellow of IEEE, and he received a CAREER award from the NSF and an IBM Faculty Award. From 2013-2019 he was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, and from 2021-2022 he was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.

Teresa Puig, PhD in Physics, is Research Professor and group leader of the Superconducting materials group at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC).  She is the head of the Department of Superconducting Materials since 2008. She has served as elected board member of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity (ESAS) since 2007 and Board member of IEEE – CSC (Council of Superconductivity) since 2013. She has worked on High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for the last 30 years, contributing in advanced thin film growth, vortex physics and integration of HTS in applications. Since the beginning of Coated Conductors (CCs) research, her group pioneered the use of low cost chemical solution methods and strongly contributed to the understanding of vortex pinning. She has always been interested in building bridges between academic knowledge and industrial needs, which also enabled many collaborations with industry. She was co-founder of Oxolutia S.L. (2010-2020) devoted to oxide superconducting coatings. Lately, she is very interested in high throughput processes for the fabrication of coated conductors and their customization for applications in energy and high energy physics, with strong collaborations with CERN. She is an ERC advanced holder who has led and contributed to prominent European and international projects and participated in numerous forums and meetings, as well as received several national awards.

Emmanuele Ravaioli defended his PhD in applied physics at the University of Twente in 2015.  He has worked on superconducting magnet quench protection, multi-physics modeling, and superconducting circuit design since 2009, at CERN and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He developed CLIQ (Coupling-Loss Induced System) from the concepts of Prof. Green, Glyn Kirby, and colleagues. He wrote LEDET, a computer program to perform quench protection simulations that has been used in more than 10 laboratories and universities. Together with Dr. Marchevsky, he invented a quench detection technique based on stray-capacitance monitoring. He is currently co-owner of the STEAM project for simulating transient effects in accelerator magnets.

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 ASC’s, and serves as a board member and the materials program chair for the ASC 2022.He taught short courses on HTS superconducting materials and magnets at the ASC 2016, ASC 2020, and ASC2022 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 and coordinated dedicated R&D for new particle physics experiments like for the Future Circular Collider, linear colliders as CLIC/ILC, antimatter detector PANDA, neutrino detector BabyMIND and solar axions detector (Baby)IAXO. He continued his work at CERN as honorable member and contributing retiree 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. 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.

Mariusz Wozniak holds an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Lublin University of Technology, Poland, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, UK. After his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, on DC superconducting cables for power applications. He has spent several years working in industrial R&D on MRI superconducting magnets at Siemens Magnet Technology in Oxford, UK. In 2021, he moved to the Machine Protection & Electrical Integrity (MPE) group in the Technology (TE) department at CERN, Switzerland. Dr Wozniak, with his colleague Dr Emmanuele Ravaioli, leads the project on tools development for the Simulation of Transient Effects in Accelerator Magnets (STEAM, https://cern.ch/steam). Dr Wozniak’s research focuses on the multidisciplinary nature of quench in superconducting magnets and related challenges for numerical tools.

Nobuyuki Yoshikawa currently serves as a professor at the Institute of Advanced Sciences (IAS) at Yokohama National University (YNU), where he leads the superconductivity electronics group. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from YNU in 1989 and has since been affiliated with YNU’s ECE Department. His research primarily centers on superconductive devices and their integration into digital and analog circuits. Presently, his focus is on developing highly energy-efficient superconducting digital circuits, particularly those that employ Adiabatic Quantum-Flux Parametron (AQFP) and Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) logic, with an aim towards high-performance computing applications. Yoshikawa has authored or co-authored over 300 journal publications. In 2023, he was honored with the IEEE Council on Superconductivity (CSC) Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the field of applied superconductivity. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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