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A discovery tourin the world ofquantum opticsSTOA Annual Lecture 2015

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STOA Annual Lecture 2015

A discovery tour in the world of quantum optics- on the occasion of the International Year of Light 2015 -

Participants’ Booklet

9 December 2015, 14:30-17:30József Antall Building, Room 4Q2

European ParliamentBrussels



Contents

1. Programme .......................................................................................................................................1

2. STOA Annual Lecture on the occasion of the International Year of Light 2015.................2

3. The Nobel Prize: A brief history ..................................................................................................5

4. What to expect from the event? ....................................................................................................6

5. Speakers' Biographies ....................................................................................................................7

Mairéad McGuinness MEP.............................................................................................................7

Paul Rübig MEP...............................................................................................................................8

Serge Haroche ..................................................................................................................................9

Christophe Salomon ......................................................................................................................10

Gregoire Ribordy ...........................................................................................................................11

Eva Kaili MEP ................................................................................................................................12

6. Previous STOA Annual Lectures 2004-2014.............................................................................13

7. About STOA ..................................................................................................................................17

8. STOA Panel members..................................................................................................................18

STOA Bureau..................................................................................................................................18

STOA Panel.....................................................................................................................................19

9. STOA Administration..................................................................................................................21



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1. Programme

14:30 Welcome and introductionChair and Moderator: Paul Rübig, MEP and STOA Chair

14.45 Keynote Speech (introduced by Christophe Salomon)The power of single quantum particles of light and matterSerge HAROCHE, Collège de France, Paris, France

15.30 The importance of discoveries in quantum opticsChristophe SALOMON, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

16.00 Quantum technologies applied: long-term data securityGrégoire RIBORDY, ID Quantique, Geneva, Switzerland

16.30 Q&A session: Questions from the audience and via social media

16.50 ConclusionsMairéad McGUINNESS, MEP and Vice-President responsible for STOA

17:00 Closing remarksEva KAILI, MEP and First STOA Vice-Chair

until 18:00: Reception



2. STOA Annual Lecture on the occasion of the InternationalYear of Light 2015

The Annual Lecture represents the high point of STOA's annual activities and gives anopportunity for MEPs, officials, scientists and the wider public to listen to eminent scientists,often Nobel Prize laureates, speaking about cutting-edge scientific and technological topicshigh on the European Parliament’s political agenda. On the occasion of the International Yearof Light 2015, for this year's Annual Lecture, STOA is delighted to welcome Professor SergeHaroche, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012, as keynote speaker.

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Keynote speaker: Serge Haroche, 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

Serge Haroche was born in 1944 in Casablanca. He graduated from the École NormaleSupérieure (ENS, Paris), receiving his doctorate from Paris VI University in 1971 (thesisadvisor: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji). After a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University in thelaboratory of Arthur Schawlow (1972-73), he became full professor at Paris VI University in1975, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed Professor at the Collège de France,in the chair of quantum physics. His research has mostly taken place in the laboratory ‘KastlerBrossel’ at ENS, where he now works with a team of senior co-workers, postdocs andgraduate students.

Professor Haroche has been working primarily in atomic physics and quantum optics, and heis principally known for proving quantum decoherence by experimental observation. After aPhD dissertation on dressed atoms, he developed new methods for laser spectroscopy in theseventies, based on the study of quantum beats and superradiance. He then moved on toRydberg atoms, the giant atomic states that are particularly sensitive to microwaves, whichmake them well adapted for studying the interactions between light and matter. Hedemonstrated that such atoms, coupled to a superconducting cavity containing only a fewphotons, are well-suited for testing quantum decoherence and for the realisation of quantumlogic operations, necessary for the treatment of quantum information.



Single quantum particles of light and matter: a brief overview

Excerpts from Professor Haroche's Banquet Speech at the Nobel Prize Awards in 2012

Let me evoke the memory of Erwin Schrödinger. His work has had an impact on all the fields of scienceand culture celebrated tonight. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for finding the equationwhich explains the behaviour of matter at the quantum level. Schrödinger's equation also accounts,at least in principle, for the structure of all the molecules studied in chemistry and biology. It has also astrong influence on the world economy. Most of the devices which have changed our lives are based onquantum physics, from the laser to the transistor, from the GPS to the cell phone, from the magneticresonance imaging to the global communication network. Schrödinger's equation is essential to explainthe workings of these technological marvels, whose sales reach billions of dollars.

What about Schrödinger's merits in literature? He may not have written any novel, but he invented acharacter about which a lot has been written in many books, a character which has even featured inmovies, generating endless metaphysical discussions. I am of course referring to the legendarySchrödinger's cat, suspended between life and death by the laws of quantum physics and its super-position principle. In his famous thought experiment, Schrödinger could have chosen an inanimateobject or a less lovable living being, a cockroach for instance. Just think about it. What aboutSchrödinger's cockroach? The story would have been as demonstrative to explain the strange logic of thequantum world, but much less impressive. By the stroke of genius of choosing the right animal in theright dramatic situation, and by having fathered an immortal character as famous as the Cheshire cat ofAlice in Wonderland, Schrödinger has made an impact on the world culture.

My fondness for this quantum feline is of course biased. David Wineland and I have been awarded theNobel Prize for creating miniature versions of this famous cat, made of a few atoms or photons.We have both been accompanied in our long research adventure by wonderful colleagues, without whomwe would never have succeeded. We are very glad that many of them are here this evening. Othergroups in the world are also working in this field, raising various ersatz of laboratory cats and trying topreserve as long as possible their quantumness. What is the future of these cats? One easy - maybe tooeasy - answer, is that they will turn into a quantum computer. I don't know. I rather guess that theywill lead to some unforeseen application, even more astonishing than this mythical machine. When theminister Gladstone asked Faraday what his research on electricity could be good for, the nineteenth-century physicist replied "One day, sir, you may tax it”. We are tempted to give our politicians thesame answer: "One day, you may tax Schrödinger's cat".

I must add though that, if someone was dubious about the taxability of his cat, it was Schrödinger. Notbelieving that it would one day be possible to really perform such experiments, he once wrote: "Wenever experiment with just one electron, or atom or small molecule. In thought experiments, we assumethat we do; this invariably entails ridiculous consequences”. In spite of the admiration we have forSchrödinger, my friend David Wineland and I must on this point disagree with him: for us, theconsequences, culminating in this magnificent evening, have been far from ridiculous!



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Schrödinger cat of light, as observed in Serge Haroche’s experiments: Figures a, b and c fromleft to right represent in an abstract way the quantum state of a light field stored betweenhighly reflecting mirrors, at increasing times, after its preparation (time expressed inmilliseconds, ms).The red peaks in each picture describe two fields with opposite phases (the equivalent of the“live” and “dead” cat of Schrödinger’s tale). The light is in a superposition of these two states.The blue wavy structure between the red peaks is a signature of quantum coherence, whichvanishes as time increases.



3. The Nobel Prize: A brief history

The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, born on 21 October in 1833 in Stockholm. Hisfamily traced its roots to Olof Rudbeck, a celebrated inventor, engineer and scientific mind inSweden in the 18th century. After facing bankruptcy, the Nobel family then moved to Russia,whereupon Alfred was found to be a gifted linguist, speaking and writing in Swedish,Russian, French, English and German by the age of 17.

Alfred Nobel soon turned his attention towards a study of science, working in Paris underProfessor T.J. Pelouze, a famous chemist of the time. A life-changing moment came howeverwhen Nobel met an Italian chemist, Ascania Sobrero, who only three years earlier had inventeda substance called nitro-glycerine. At the time it was considered too dangerous to be of anypractical use, but, sensing an opportunity, Nobel worked with his father to refine thesubstance and use it in the construction industry.

Eventually the subsequent invention of dynamite transformed Alfred Nobel's fortunes andresulted in his amassing of a significant fortune. Upon his death in 1896, his will caused muchcontroversy amongst Nobel's family and throughout Sweden, due to the inclusion of thefollowing passage:

"...The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way:the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the

interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, duringthe preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."

The Nobel Prize was first awarded in the fields of Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, andPhysiology or Medicine in 1901. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences wasestablished by the Swedish Central Bank in 1968. The Prize is awarded in Stockholm, exceptfor the Peace Prize which is awarded in Oslo. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awardsthe Nobel Prize in the fields of Physics and Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize inEconomic Sciences, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine, the Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, and theNobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

This year’s keynote speaker, Serge Haroche, was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physicsjointly with David J. Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuringand manipulation of individual quantum systems”, a study of the particle of light, the photon.

It is interesting to note that one of the winners of 2009 Prize in Physics was also chosen fromthe optical and light field: one half of the Prize was awarded to Charles Kuen Kao “forgroundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”.



4. What to expect from the event?

Following Professor Haroche's keynote speech on the quantum particles of light and matter,Professor Christophe Salomon from the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) will talk on theimportance of discoveries in quantum optics. In his talk he will extend physical conceptspresented before by Professor Haroche to atomic clocks, matter wave quantum sensors, andBose-Einstein condensation. Professor Salomon will describe a few important applications ofquantum optics for precision measurements of time, accelerations, and rotations. Novel testsin fundamental physics and applications in geodesy and Earth monitoring become possiblewith these quantum sensors.

Grégoire Ribordy, CEO of ID Quantique (Geneva), will talk about quantum information as anexample of applications of quantum physics to technology (known as the second quantumrevolution). He will also speak on quantum computing and its impact on our presentcryptographic infrastructure, and on options for a quantum-safe cryptographic infrastructure(based not only on mathematics, but on quantum physics), and on quantum key distributionas an example of practical applications of quantum information.

Later all the speakers will be available for a questions and answers session with the widerpublic. You can join the conversation on Twitter by using #quantumlecture2015 to put aquestion to Professor Haroche and the other speakers yourself.

#quantumlecture2015



5. Speakers' BiographiesMairéad McGuinness MEP

Vice-President responsible for STOA

Mairéad McGuinness is Vice-President of the EuropeanParliament with responsibility for STOA.

Mairéad's role as Vice-President also includes overseeing theEuropean Parliament's Information Policy, Press and CitizensRelations and she plays a leading role in the area of Children'sRights as a Mediator in certain cases on behalf of theParliament.

Mairéad is an economist, specialising in agriculture and food,serving on the European Parliament Committees onAgriculture and Rural Development, and on Environment,Public Health and Food Safety.

Voted MEP of the Year for agriculture 2011 by her colleagues in the Parliament, she majors onthe future shape of agriculture and rural development, global development policy, theenvironment and food safety and security. She was the author of a report, endorsed by theEuropean Parliament, on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and Global FoodSecurity.

She chaired the Parliament’s inquiry into the demise of Equitable Life which collapsed withthousands of pensioners losing out on their investments. The report, which led to acompensation scheme being set up by the British Government, pointed to weak financialregulation long before the current financial crisis emerged.

She works with Inter-Party Groups in the Parliament on Disability and Children’s Rights,raising the plight of children and young adults, particularly those with disabilities inorphanages in Eastern Europe.

In May 2014 Mairéad was elected to the European Parliament for the third time. Prior tobecoming an MEP she was a well-known journalist, broadcaster and commentator.



Paul Rübig MEP

Chairman of STOA

Paul Rübig has recently been elected as theSTOA Chairman for the first half of theEuropean Parliament's 8th legislature.

He previously served as Chairman from2009-2012 and as First Vice-Chairman from2012-2014.

Paul Rübig, born in Upper Austria, has beena member of the European Parliament since1996 and belongs to the European People's

Party (EPP).

He is the owner of an Austrian blacksmith company and has a degree in BusinessAdministration, Marketing and Production Engineering from the University of Linz, UpperAustria. He is married and has two children.

Paul Rübig is full member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and of theCommittee on Budgets. He is Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the KoreanPeninsula and substitute member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Norwayand of the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee.

He is also a substitute member of the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint ParliamentaryCommittee. Furthermore, Paul Rübig is a substitute member in the Committee onDevelopment.

Paul Rübig is very active in the field of the small-scale business promotion. He is president ofSME Global, a working group of the International Democrat Union (IDU), whose objective it isto support small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and to improve their businessenvironment.



Serge Haroche

Collège de France, Paris, France

Serge Haroche’s early work includes the elaboration ofthe 'dressed atom' formalism and the experimentalstudy of dressed atom properties in optical pumpingexperiments (thesis work from 1965 to 1971), thedevelopment of laser-induced quantum beatspectroscopy (1973-76) and the study of superradianceof laser-excited atomic ensembles (1976-78). Hisresearch has then focused on the study of the radiativeproperties of Rydberg atoms, starting with themillimetre wave high-resolution spectroscopy of theseatoms and the first realization of Rydberg atom masers(1979).

Serge Haroche’s experiments with Rydberg atoms andmicrowaves stored in cavities led him, in the early1980’s, to become one of the main actors in theemerging field of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics(Cavity QED). This is the domain of quantum optics which studies the radiative behaviour ofatoms confined by reflecting boundaries in a limited region of space.

Exploiting Cavity QED methods, Serge Haroche and his ENS team – including colleaguesJean-Michel Raimond and Michel Brune – have started in the early 1990’s to investigate theinteraction between single atoms and photons stored in a very high Q superconducting cavity.This has led to unprecedented tests of quantum mechanics of relevance to quantuminformation and decoherence studies. Haroche and his team have demonstrated variousschemes of entanglement between atoms and photons, and realised quantum gates and simplequantum logic operations.

Using a Cavity QED set-up, they have observed the size-dependent progressive decoherenceof a quantum system prepared in a superposition state reminiscent of the famous Schrödingercat that the Austrian physicist had imagined to be suspended between life and death. In thisexperiment Haroche and his team have explored the quantum-classical boundary. They havethen developed super-high finesse cavities which hold microwave photons over more than atenth of a second. This has led to experiments in which trapped photon fields are manipulatedand detected with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy. The stored photons arecontinuously detected in a non-destructive way (Quantum Non-Demolition or QND method).These Cavity QED experiments test the fundamental principles of quantum physics anddemonstrate basic steps of quantum logic operations which could one day be exploited inpractical devices for communication or computing.



Christophe Salomon

Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique del’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

After getting his degree from the École Centrale desArts et Manufactures de Paris in 1976, ChristopheSalomon turned to research in quantum optics andlaser spectroscopy. He obtained his PhD in 1984 atParis 13 University (France) on high resolution laserspectroscopy in the infrared domain. For his post-doctoral stay he moved to JILA1 (USA), where heworked with 2005 Nobel laureate J. Hall on ultra-stable lasers and laser cooling of atoms. In 1985, hejoined the laser cooling group just created byC. Cohen-Tannoudji (1997 Nobel laureate) andA. Aspect at École normale supérieure (Paris,France).

Since then at ENS, Christophe Salomon worked onvarious developments and applications of laser cooled and trapped atoms, notably atomicfountain clocks, optical lattices, Bose-Einstein condensation, matter wave solitons, and ultra-cold Fermi gases. Since 2008, he is the head of the cold Fermi gas group at ENS and, since1997, Principal Investigator for the ACES/PHARAO space clock mission of the EuropeanSpace Agency (ESA) and the French Space Agency (CNES). His current research interestsrange from super-fluidity in quantum gases to high precision measurements and fundamentalphysics tests with ground and space born clocks.

Christophe Salomon is a member of the EURAMET Research Council since 2007, chairman ofthe French metrology committee since 2010, fellow of the American Physical Society, andmember of the European and French Physical Societies. He has published over 180 papers andparticipated in several radio and TV interviews. For his research, he received several prizesand awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the INRIM memorial lecture prize,the Louis D. prize of the Institut de France, an advanced Research Grant from the EuropeanResearch Council, the Three Physicists Prize, the Mergier-Bourdeix Prize of the FrenchAcademy of Sciences, the European Time and Frequency Prize, the Philip-Morris Prize, andthe Young Scientist Prize of the French Ministry of Defence.

1 Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado



Gregoire Ribordy

CEO of ID Quantique, Geneva, Switzerland

Grégoire Ribordy studied physics at the Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology in Lausanne, where he obtained hisMaster in 1995 with a specialization in optics. Passionateabout applications of science and technology, he thendecided to join industry and had the opportunity to work inthe R&D department of Nikon Corp. in Tokyo, Japan. Duringhis 18 months stay in this country, Ribordy also learnt tospeak Japanese.

Upon his return to Switzerland, Ribordy decided to go backto academia to obtain his PhD, but he was careful to select aresearch group with strong ties to applications and fromwhich start-ups had already been spun off. He thus joinedthe Group of Applied Physics of University of Geneva andworked in the field of quantum cryptography under theguidance of Professor Nicolas Gisin and Hugo Zbinden.After obtaining his PhD in 2000, he decided to start a company in October 2001– ID Quantique– to pursue the commercial opportunities of quantum technologies in the field of securecommunications. The company was the first to bring products such as quantum randomnumber generators and quantum cryptography to the market. In 2007 in a world premiere, IDQuantique’s quantum cryptography solution was used to secure communication between twodata centers in Geneva, Switzerland. ID Quantique currently has a staff of about 30 employeesand is the world leader in the field of quantum-safe cryptography.

Ribordy has co-authored more than 15 scientific papers and is listed as an inventor on morethan 10 patents. Ribordy is also the recipient of several awards for technologyentrepreneurship such as the 2001 New Entrepreneurs in Technology and Science Prize or the2002 de Vigier Award for Young Swiss Entrepreneurs.



Eva Kaili MEP

First Vice-Chair of STOA

Eva Kaili is Member of the EuropeanParliament (2014-2019), head of the GreekS&D Delegation (PASOK/Elia) in theEuropean Parliament, ITRE representative onthe STOA Panel and 1st STOA Vice-Chair.

Eva Kaili was elected four times (2004-2012) tothe national parliament with the PanhellenicSocialist Movement (PASOK). For the past tenyears, she has worked as a newscaster forMEGA Channel, an advisor on InternationalRelations of Group DemCo, Alpha TV and acommunication advisor of the PanHellenic

Pharmaceutical Union.

She has also been an advisor on International Relations and Greek products exports and heldthe position of Director of the Centre of Equality and Equal Opportunities.

She holds a bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering, and postgraduate studiesin European Politics. Currently, she is conducting her PhD in International Political Economy.In the European elections of 2014, Ms Kaili was elected, ranked-first, with the political schemeof 'Elia', and she is a Member of the European Socialists and Democrats (S&D).

Eva Kaili chairs the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (DNAT),and is a member of the Committee Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), as well as a memberof the Committee on Petitions (PETI).

She is also a substitute member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)and a substitute member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE).



6. Previous STOA Annual Lectures 2003-2014Pictures and details of keynote speakers from previous Annual Lectures (2003 – 2014) are listedbelow.

Towards understanding the brain: explained by a Nobel Prize winner18 November 2014

Thomas Christian Südhof,Stanford University, USA, 2013 Nobel Prizein Medicine (pictured right)

David Nutt,Department of Neuropsychopharmacology,Imperial College London &President of the European Brain Council

Elena Becker-Barroso,The Lancet Neurology

Rosario Rizzuto,Department of Biomedical Sciences,University of Padua, Italy

Sustaining sustainability: Making economics work for the global environment12 November 2013

Ismail Serageldin, Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina &former Vice-President of the World Bank (pictured left)

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United NationsEnvironment Programme

Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the EuropeanEnvironment Agency

Monika Kircher, CEO of Infineon Technologies AustriaAG

Unlocking the mysteries of the universe at CERN - 27 November 2012

François Englert, Professor Emeritus,Université Libre de Bruxelles (pictured left)

Peter Higgs, Professor Emeritus,University of Edinburgh (pictured right)

Rolf Heuer, Director-General of CERN

John Ellis, Professor, King's College London

Steve Myers, Director of Accelerators, CERN



Sustainable management of natural resources - 29 November 2011

Koji Omi, Founder and Chairman,Science and Technology in Society forum (pictured)

Sir Harry Kroto, Florida State University,1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (by video link)

John Anthony Allan,Professor Emeritus, King's College London

Is an oil-free future possible? - 7 December 2010

Shai Agassi,Founder and CEO of ‘Better Place’

(pictured right)

Paul Crutzen,Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry,

1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry(pictured left)

George Oláh,University of Southern California,

1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry(by video link)

One web, free and open for all - 1 December 2009

Sir Tim Berners-Lee,Director of the World Wide Web Consortium &

Founder of the World Wide Web Foundation



Meeting future energy demands and tackling climate change - 12 November 2008

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute,Columbia University (by video link)

David Eyton,Group Vice-President on Technology BP (pictured)

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele,Vice-Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The future of the brain - 27 November 2007

Susan Greenfield,Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind

Avoiding a web of confusion - Innovation in information technology -21 November 2006

Phil Janson,IBM Academy of Technology



Climate change and CO2 emissions reduction - 23 November 2005

Guy Brasseur,Director of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

New and old epidemic diseases - 24 November 2004

Rolf Zinkernagel,University of Zurich, Switzerland,

1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The coldest matter in the universe – 4 November 2003

Wolfgang Ketterle,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA,2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

Risks and opportunities in the biotechnology era – 25 March 2003

Kary Mullis,Burstein Technologies, Irvine, California,1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry



7. About STOA

The Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel forms an integral part of thestructure of the European Parliament. Launched in 1987, STOA is tasked with identifying andindependently assessing the impact of new and emerging science and technologies.The goal of its work is to assist, with independent information, the Members of the EuropeanParliament (MEPs) in developing options for long-term, strategic policy-making.

The STOA Panel

The STOA Panel consists of 24 MEPs nominated from the eight permanent parliamentarycommittees: AGRI (Agriculture & Rural Development), CULT (Culture & Education), EMPL(Employment & Social Affairs), ENVI (Environment, Public Health & Food Safety), IMCO(Internal Market & Consumer Protection), ITRE (Industry, Research & Energy), JURI (LegalAffairs) and TRAN (Transport & Tourism).Ms Mairéad McGuinness MEP is the European Parliament Vice-President responsible forSTOA and member of the Panel. The STOA Chair for the first half of the 8th legislature is PaulRübig, with Eva Kaili and Evžen Tošenovský elected as 1st and 2nd Vice-Chairs.

The STOA Approach

STOA fulfils its mission primarily by carrying out science-based projects. Whilst undertakingthese projects, STOA assesses the widest possible range of options to support evidence-basedpolicy decisions. A typical project investigates the impacts of both existing and emergingtechnology options and presents these in the form of studies and options briefs. These arepublicly available for download via the STOA website: www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/. Someof STOA's projects explore the long-term impacts of future techno-scientific trends, with theaim to support MEPs in anticipating the consequences of developments in science. Alongsideits production of 'hard information', STOA communicates its findings to the EuropeanParliament by organising public events throughout the year. STOA also runs the MEP-ScientistPairing Scheme aimed at promoting mutual understanding and facilitating the establishmentof lasting links between the scientific and policy-making communities.

Focus areas

STOA activities and products are varied and are designed to cover as wide a range of scientificand technological topics as possible, such as nano-safety, e-Democracy, bio-engineering,assistive technologies for people with disabilities, waste management, cybersecurity, smartenergy grids, responsible research & innovation, sustainable agriculture and health.They are grouped in five broad focus areas: eco-efficient transport and modern energysolutions; sustainable management of natural resources; potential and challenges of theInternet; health and life sciences; science policy, communication and global networking.



8. STOA Panel members

STOA Bureau

Mairéad McGUINNESS (EPP, IE)EP Vice-President responsible for STOA

Paul RÜBIG (EPP, AT)Chair of STOA

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy(ITRE)

Eva KAILI (S&D, EL)First Vice-Chair of STOA


Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ (ECR, CZ)Second Vice-Chair of STOA




STOA Panel

Tiziana BEGHIN(EFDD, IT)

EMPL Committee

Renata BRIANO(S&D, IT)

ENVI Committee

Carlos COELHO(PPE, PT)

IMCO Committee

Mady DELVAUX(S&D, LU)

JURI Committee

Vicky FORD(ECR, UK)

IMCO Committee

Juan Carlos GIRAUTAVIDAL(ALDE, ES)

ITRE Committee

Andrzej GRZYB(EPP, PL)

ENVI Committee

DanutaJAZŁOWIECKA

(EPP, PL)

EMPL Committee

Andrew LEWER(ECR, UK)

CULT Committee

BogusławLIBERADZKI(S&D, PL)

TRAN Committee



Anthea McINTYRE(ECR, UK)

AGRI Committee

Clare MOODY(S&D, UK)

ITRE Committee

Momchil NEKOV(S&D, BG)

AGRI Committee

Marijana PETIR(EPP, HR)

AGRI Committee

Georgi PIRINSKI(S&D, BG)

EMPL Committee

Virginie ROZIERE(S&D, FR)

IMCO Committee

Claudia SCHMIDT(EPP, AT)

TRAN Committee

Kay SWINBURNE(ECR, UK)

ENVI Committee

DarioTAMBURRANO(EFDD, IT)

ITRE Committee

Parliamentary Committees:

AGRI: Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentCULT: Culture and EducationEMPL: Employment and Social AffairsENVI: Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyIMCO: Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionITRE: Industry, Research and EnergyJURI: Legal AffairsTRAN: Transport and Tourism



9. STOA Administration

European Parliament

Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA)Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (DG EPRS)European ParliamentRue Wiertz 60B-1047 BrusselsE-mail: [email protected]

Director-General - Director-General

Anthony Teasdale

Acting Director

Joseph Dunne

Head of Unit - Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA)

Theo Karapiperis

Head of Service - STOA Secretariat

Zsolt G. Pataki

Head of Service - Scientific Foresight Service

Lieve Van Woensel

Administrators

Nera KuljanicMihalis KritikosGianluca Quaglio

Assistants

Serge EvrardRachel ManirambonaDamir PleseAnne Villers

Trainee

Liliana Cunha

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