2022 Canadian Light Source Annual Users' Meeting

Robert Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at the University of Saskatchewan. He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute at the University of British Columbia. He studies quantum materials using various x-ray spectroscopy and scattering techniques at the CLS.

Bill joined the CLS in April 2019 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With the retirement of the CLS’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bill has taken on the additional role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) until a new CEO is in place. As COO, Bill has full operational oversight and authority of the CLS.

Prior to joining the CLS, Bill was the COO and CFO at Suncorp Valuations, a global provider of appraisal, business valuation and risk management services. Bill started his professional career with Deloitte where he obtained his Chartered Accountant and Chartered Business Valuator designations. Approximately 20 years of his career was with the Deloitte Financial Advisory team, where he eventually became a Partner. He also led the Business Valuation and Litigation Support services practice for the province of Saskatchewan. At Deloitte he served clients in the public, private, government and not-for-profit sectors across Canada, the US and Mexico.

Gianluigi has been the CLS Science Director since May 2019. He has trained nearly 50 HQP, and he places considerable importance on the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion, which he has formally implemented in multiple aspects of CLS operations and management.

Gianluigi is also Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University where he holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials. In 2003, Gianluigi established the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM), a national facility for ultrahigh-resolution microscopy, and served as the Scientific Director from the start of operations in 2008 until 2019. He has an impressive research record, having secured more than $50M in funding as Principal Investigator and $90M as a co-investigator, and has more than 350 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 68).

Over the course of his illustrious career, Gianluigi has been awarded the Microbeam Analysis Society’s Presidential Award (2020); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2018); and Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (2014).

Mark has been with the CLS as the Machine Director since September 2017. The hallmark of his career has been to collaborate with the best in the field of synchrotrons and accelerator physics to achieve excellence in science, research and operations. His expertise has been recognised with several awards, fellowships and leadership positions, including research grants in Australia, Canada and the European Union, a Fulbright Fellowship in the USA, a JSPS Fellowship in Japan and the Chair of the world’s largest and premier conference in particle accelerators IPAC 19.

Mark has a track record for research innovation and excellence in operational performance of scientific infrastructure. He has been the collaboration leader for both Australia and Canada in the global research effort for new particle accelerators for scientific discovery in particle physics through the Compact Linear Collider and the Future Circular Collider projects at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.

As a physicist, Mark was involved with the commissioning of three light source facilities from 2003 to 2006: the CLS, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and the Australian Synchrotron.