Speakers
Dr. habil. Piotr Szymański
Director of JRC Directorate C – Energy, Transport and Climate, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Piotr Szymański hails from Warsaw, Poland. He studied physics at
Warsaw University and went on to complete a PhD in experimental
particle physics at the Institute for Nuclear Studies in Świerk, Poland.
He worked as a Research Associate at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, UK and the J-W Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main,
Germany before going on to be a Staff Member at the European
Organization for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. He
holds a habilitation in physics and is the author or co-author of more
than 200 scientific papers in various fields of particle physics. He was
Head of the Department for Interdisciplinary Applications of Physics
at the Institute for Nuclear Studies in Świerk, Poland. In 2009 he took up the position of Director
of Euratom Safeguards at the Directorate General for Energy of the European Commission in
Luxembourg. Since 2016 he leads the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Directorate
for Energy, Transport and Climate which brings together about 350 scientific staff based in
Petten (NL), Ispra (IT), Seville (ES) and Brussels (B).