ESS Appoints Helmut Schober Next Director General
The European Spallation Source (ESS) Council has named Helmut Schober the next Director General of the next-generation materials research facility under construction in Lund, Sweden. Helmut Schober, currently Director of the European research centre Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France, will join ESS on 1 November.“I am happy that the ESS Council has appointed Professor Helmut Schober as the next Director General of ESS,” says Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Chair of the ESS Council. “Helmut Schober has a long-standing experience as neutron scientist and a deep knowledge in leading a European