ASEF Board Election
The Applied Superconductivity Educational Foundation is run by a board of directors, the majority of whom are elected by participants at the conference. At each Applied Superconductivity Conference, two representatives from each of the topical areas of Electronics, Materials and Large Scale, are elected for a six-year term. Suggestions of volunteers for candidates to run for the Board are solicited. Persons submitting a valid petition before the indicated deadline will be placed on the ballot. A valid petition must (a) be signed by 10 or more people who have attended either of the last two conferences; (b) cannot have more than 2 signatures from persons from the same organization as the nominee.
Inquiries or nominations should be sent no later than May 29, 2026, to:
2026 Nominees
Short bios can be viewed by clicking on the images below. These will also be posted on the Board Election Poster Boards located on Level 3 in the Ballroom Gallery at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Votes will be collected electronically, and a link will be sent to all registered attendees when voting is open.
Voting will open on Sunday, September 6, 2026, and ends at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, September 9, 2026.
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| Michael C. Hamilton Google Quantum AI & Auburn University ECE Department |
Peter Hopkins National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Edward Leonard, Jr. |
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| Lucas Brouwer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Ramesh Gupta Superconducting Magnet Division Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Kohei Higashikawa Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems, Kyushu University, Japan |
Susana Izquierdo Bermudez CERN, Switzerland |
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| Erica Salazar Commonwealth Fusion Systems |
Laura Savoldi Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento Energia “Galileo Ferraris”, Italy |
Frédéric Sirois Laboratory of Superconductivity and Magnetism (LSM) Polytechnique Montréal, QC, Canada |
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| Mark Ainslie Department of Engineering, King’s College London |
Ashleigh Francis Commonwealth Fusion Systems |
Toshinori Ozaki Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan |