Scientific Advisory Committee | Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

Role and Charter of the SSRL SAC

Scope

The SSRL Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) reports to and advises the SSRL Director on issues related to:

Operation of SSRL as a scientific user facility
Planning, construction and operation of new SSRL facilities
Long-term scientific directions of SSRL

Membership and Officers

SAC consists of 14 external members, and representatives from the following SSRL committees serve on the SAC in an Ex Officio capacity
- Chair of the SSRL Proposal Review Panel (PRP)
- Chair and Past Chair of the SSRL Users' Executive Committee (SSRL UEC)
SAC members are appointed by the SSRL Director for 3-year terms, with one third of the members rotating off and being replaced every year
- Membership may be extended, e.g., to stagger rotation periods of members
The SAC Chair is appointed by the SSRL Director

Meetings

The SAC meets periodically as needed, at minimum once a year. The meeting agenda is set by the SSRL Director in close coordination with the SAC Chair
Before each meeting, the SSRL Director will outline a specific charge to the SAC and the advice sought from the SAC.

Reporting

The advice of the SAC is conveyed to SSRL management at the end of each meeting, and documented in a short written communication to the SSRL Director, with a copy to the SLAC Director.

Committee Members

Joel Brock (SAC Chair) Cornell University Department of Applied and Engineering Physics Ithaca, NY	Dave Robin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Light Source Berkeley, CA
Alexander Fohlisch Institute of Methods and Instrumentation in Synchrotron Radiation Research Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Berlin, Germany	Susannah Scott University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Chemical Engineering Santa Barbara, CA
Bruce Gates University of California at Davis Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Davis, CA	Thomas Schneider European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Structural Biology Hamburg, Germany
Celia Goulding University of California at Irvine Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Irvine, CA	Edward Snell Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute Buffalo, NY
Eric Lin National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Measurement Laboratory Gaithersburg, MD	Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Berkeley, CA
Christian Mailhiot Sandia National Laboratories Energy Materials Science Livermore, CA	Michael Chabinyc (Ex Officio PRP Chair) University of California Santa Barbara Materials Department Santa Barbara, CA
Lisa Miller Brookhaven National Laboratory National Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource II Upton, NY	Blaine Mooers (Ex Officio UEC Chair) University of Oklahoma Health Science Center Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oklahoma, OK
Sakura Pascarelli Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) European XFEL Hamburg, Germany	Graham George (Ex Officio Past UEC Chair) University of Saskatchewan Geological Sciences Saskatoon, Canada
Harald Reichert Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) PETRA IV Hamburg, Germany