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
David Clark National Security Education Center Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM	Susannah Scott University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Chemical Engineering Santa Barbara, CA
Alexander Fohlisch Institute of Methods and Instrumentation in Synchrotron Radiation Research Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Berlin, Germany	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
Ronald Jones National Institute of Standards and Technology Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group Gaithersburg, MD	Pedro Tavares MAX IV Synchrotron Accelerator Division Lund, Sweden
Christian Mailhiot Sandia National Laboratories Energy Materials Science Livermore, CA	Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Berkeley, CA
Lisa Miller Brookhaven National Laboratory National Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource II Upton, NY	Michael Chabinyc (Ex Officio PRP Chair) University of California Santa Barbara Materials Department Santa Barbara, CA
Sakura Pascarelli Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) European XFEL Hamburg, Germany	Blaine Mooers (Ex Officio Past UEC Chair) University of Oklahoma Health Science Center Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oklahoma, OK
Harald Reichert Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) PETRA IV Hamburg, Germany	James Evans (Ex Officio UEC Chair) Utah State University Geology Logan, UT