Membership

The membership of IUPAP WG.9 consists of an Executive (Chair, Past-Chair, and Executive-Secretary), the directors of the major nuclear science laboratories and deep-underground science facilities around the world (five from Asia, five from Europe, five from North-America, and one from South-Africa, the chairs and past-chairs of the long range planning organizations (including ALAFNA, ANPhA, NSAC, and NuPECC ). The chair of IUPAP”s Commission on Nuclear Physics (C12) is an ex-officio member of IUPAP WG.9.

As of July 1, 2021, the membership of IUPAP WG.9 is as follows:

Officers

Chair: Angela Bracco, University of Milano and INFN-Milano, Italy

Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF/University of Victoria, Canada) Secretary WG9

Members 2025
  • Angela Bracco (INFN-Milano, Italy) Chair WG9
  • Robert E. Tribble (Texas A&M, USA) Past-Chair WG9
  • Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF/University of Victoria, Canada) Secretary WG9
  • Paola Gianotti (Director Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy)
  • Patricia Roussel-Chomaz (Director GANIL, France)
  • Luis Fraile (ISOLDE Physics Section Leader CERN/ ISOLDE, from July 1, 2025)
  • Abhay Deshpande (Associate Laboratory Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
  • Thomas Nilsson (Scientific Managing Director GSI/FAIR, Germany)
  • Thomas Glasmacher (Director FRIB, USA)
  • Jeter Hall (Director of Research, SNOLAB, Canada)
  • David Dean (Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Jefferson Laboratory, USA)
  • Seung-Woo Hong (Director IBS RAON, South Korea)
  • Avinash C. Pandey (Director Inter-University Accelerator Centre, India)
  • Naohito Saito (Director IPNS-KEK, Japan)
  • Hiroyoshi Sakurai (Director RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Japan)
  • Nigel Smith (Executive Director and CEO, TRIUMF, Canada)
  • Grigory V. Trubnikov (Director JINR, Russian Federation)
  • Makondelele Victor Tshivhase (Director i’Themba Laboratories, South Africa) (since June 1, 2023)
  • Zhiyu Sun (Director, IMP Lanzhou, China)