Wolfgang Kerner

European Commission

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS Expertise in:

European energy policy: Communication on Priority Interconnection Plan
Policy definition in TEN-E Revision
Administration (incl. selection and financing) of EU fellowships
Administration and organisation of scientific work
Organisation of expert meetings for benchmarking Human Resources in Europe
Organisation of inter-disciplinary workshops for Marie Curie Fellows
Training students and supervising Post-Docs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sept. 2002 to present: DG Energy & Transport (TREN), Unit B 2 BRUSSELS, DM 24 Principal Policy Officer- Communication on Priority Interconnection Plan- Policy definition: Responsibility of the TEN-E Revision process- Publication of the brochure ‘Trans-European Energy Networks’- Impact Assessment & Internet-based consultation- Briefing notes and speeches

Sept. 1998 - August 2002 : DG RESEARCH, Unit D 2 BRUSSELS, SDME 8 Principal Scientific Officer- Co-ordinator of the STRATA-ETAN expert working group benchmarking Human Resources in RTD.- Panel Co-ordinator for Physics Panel: Individual Fellowships & Scientific officer responsible for the assessment of scientific work carried out by Marie Curie Fellows.- Organisation of series of interdisciplinary scientific workshops with fellows as part of fellowship monitoring. This new initiative is still ongoing.

Jan. 1990 - Aug. 1998 : JET JOINT UNDERTAKING ABINGDON, OXON., OX14 3EA, UK Leader of Analytic Theory Group in Data Analysis and Modelling Division- My responsibility was to define the programme of the Analytic Theory Group, to develop analytic and numerical models and to apply plasma theory to JET experiments. It included the organisation and application of large-scale computer codes.- I have supervised students in their work for obtaining a master and a PhD degree at European Universities and acted as External Promoter of a PhD thesis at the Universities of Munich, Leuven, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Lisbon.- Collaboration between JET and European Associations, with IFS Texas, US, Princeton University, US and Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia.- Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Physics (1987 through 1995).

Feb. 1977 - Dec.1989 : MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FUER PLASMAPHYSIK GARCHING, D-85748, GERMANY Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter in General Theory Division- Theory of Plasma Physics and Astrophysics; Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics- Support of Tokamak experiments & Supervision of students and of research assistants- Senior Researcher of two European Grants (Twinning Grants)

Sept.1976 - Jan.1977 : COURANT INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Mercerstreet 251, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10012, USA Research Assistant in MFD Division- General Plasma Theory and applied Mathematics; Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)

Dec.1974 - Sept.1976 : PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PPL James Forrestal Campus, P. O. Box 451; PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, N. J. 08549, USA Research Assistant in Theory Division- Theory of fusion oriented Plasma Physics ; Tokamak Physics; Computational Physics

EDUCATION

1963 ABITUR Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium, Darmstadt
1963 - 1966 Student of the FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
1966 VORDIPLOM in Physics and Mathematics
1966-1970 Student of the LUDWIG- MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
1970 DIPLOM in Theoretical Physics
1971 - 1974 Graduate student at IPP Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians Univ. Muenchen
1974 DOKTOR rer. nat. at Ludwig - Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen

PUBLICATIONS

Revision of TEN-E Guidelines, Impact Assessment, Co-author of TEN-E brochure
Author and editor (respectively co-author and co-editor) of Commission reports and workshop proceedings
Author and co-author of more than 90 refereed publications in international scientific journals
Several review papers
Numerous invited talks at conferences, workshops and Research Centres
Author and co-author of more than 100 Conference presentations (often published in proceedings).

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