Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century

Oliver Brüning started his career at DESY in Hamburg where he participated in the studies and commissioning of the HERA collider. In 1995 he moved from DESY to CERN where he worked on design studies for the LHC collider and contributed to the commissioning of LEP2. From 2005 until 2015 he was head of the Accelerator and Beam Physics group at CERN. During the first commissioning of the LHC he was one of the 6 LHC initial Machine Coordinators and as of 2010 he is the deputy project manager for the HL-LHC upgrade project at CERN. Since 2014 he acts also as the Deputy Department Head of the Beams Department at CERN which looks after the operation and performance of the whole CERN accelerator complex.

Stephen Myers started at CERN as Engineer-in-Charge for the operation of the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) before moving on to the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). In October 2008, he was nominated Director of Accelerators and Technology, responsible for the operation and exploitation of the whole CERN accelerator complex, with particular emphasis on the LHC and for the development of new projects and technologies. He directed the repair of the LHC after the accident in September 2008 and steered the operation of the collider in 2010, 2011, and 2012. On 4 July 2012 the collider had produced enough events to allow two large LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS, to discover the Higgs boson. As of January 2014, Dr. Myers has been appointed the Head of the newly established Office of Medical Applications at CERN.