Charter
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 18 external members including representatives from the following SSRL committees who 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.
Members
| Joel Brock (SAC Chair) Cornell University Department of Applied and Engineering Physics Ithaca, NY | Thomas Schneider European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Structural Biology Hamburg, Germany |
| 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 | Edward Snell University of Buffalo Department of Materials Design & Innovation Buffalo, NY |
| Celia Goulding University of California at Irvine Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Irvine, CA | Pedro Tavares MAX IV Synchrotron Accelerator Division Lund, Sweden |
| Ronald Jones National Institute of Science and Technology Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group Gaithersburg, MD, NY | 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 |
| Christopher Milne Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) European XFEL Hamburg, Germany | Sarah Bowman (Ex Officio UEC Chair) University of Buffalo Department of Biochemistry Buffalo, NY |
| Harald Reichert Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) PETRA IV Hamburg, Germany | Liane Moreau (Ex Officio Past UEC Chair) University of Wyoming Department of Chemistry Laramie, WY |