August 2019

Dr. Hans F. Hoffmann, born in 1942, German nationality, has a PhD in experimental physics from Bonn University/Germany.

As CERN staff from 1972 to 2007 he worked on collider studies, as technical coordinator of the CERN UA1 (discovery W, Z bosons 1983) and ATLAS (discovery Higgs boson 2012) experiments.

He held positions as director of central services (DESY/Hamburg 1985-1989), director of technical support (CERN 1989-1993) and director of technology transfer and scientific computing (CERN 1999-2003), launching the CERN world-wide grid computing WLCG (http://wlcg.web.cern.ch/ ).

He was member of the European Science and Technology Assembly, ESTA (1994 - !998).

In 2003 has co-organised the summit event at CERN on "role of science in the information society” of the first World Summit of the Information Society, WSIS (http://cds.cern.ch/record/686777).

He is now retired and CERN “honorary”, working on UNESCO projects and some CERN project management and knowledge transfer studies.

Since 2012 he is president of ESI, the European Scientific Institute (http://www.esi-archamps.eu/) in France. ESI specialises in thematic schools for Master andPhD students and for professionals on accelerators, particle physics instrumentation, medical physics and bio-health computing.

He has published on accelerators, detectors, physics results, collaborative engineering, technology transfer, grid/cloud computing, e-science, open access, translational research management, and knowledge society.