Professor Federico Boscherini, Deputy Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi” at the University of Bologna  has been appointed Chair of the  XFEL, ( European X-ray Free Electron Laser Facility),with effect as of 1 July 2022 for a first term of two years.

The Council, is the supreme organ of the European XFEL, which decides on all important issues of the company (like the annual financial statement and the annual operation budget, and important personnel matters as well as the further development of the facility).

The European XFEL is located in the metropolitan area of Hamburg, Germany and is organized as a non-profit company under German private law (GmbH) that is publicly funded (total construction budget: 1.54 B€; operation
budget for 2022: 141 M€) through its international shareholders from 12 Europeancountries, including CNR and INFN from Italy.