On December 9, 1999, the Administrative Council of the German Electron Synchrotron DESY has made effective the extension of the DESY Directorate, planned since the beginning of this year. From now on the Board of Directors will have six members instead of five: the new director is in charge of "Research with Synchrotron Radiation", which in the last years has developed to become a second important research field along with elementary particle physics. Prof. Dr. Jochen R. Schneider was nominated Director of this field, a position which he will assume on January 1, 2000. Moreover the Administrative Council nominated Prof. Robert Klanner as DESY Research Director. He will be in charge of elementary particle physics, the first important research field of DESY. Prof. Klanner succeeds Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wagner who became Head of the DESY Directorate (Director General) in July of this year.

The elementary particle physicist Dr. Robert Klanner (54) accepted a Chair as a Full Professor of experimental physics in 1996 after being a leading scientist at DESY for 15 years in one of the four main HERA research groups. He was born in Austria, studied physics at the Technical University in Munich and finished his diploma thesis at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva. The scientific research in a CERN-Serpukhov experiment for his graduation at the University of Munich even led him to Russia. Afterwards Robert Klanner became Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. From 1975 to 1984 he was a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich and worked on different particle physics experiments at CERN. In 1984 he became a Leading Scientist at DESY, Hamburg. He collaborated in the development of the large HERA-detector "ZEUS" and participated in the particle physics research with this measuring device. His main fields of interest were special investigations of heavy quarks and of the strong interaction between these building blocks of matter. During the last years Professor Klanner has been a member of several expertise boards of accelerator research centers in the United States, Switzerland and Canada, moreover in several commissions of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of the scientific journal "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research", Section A.

The solid state physicist Prof. Dr. Jochen R. Schneider (58) is professor for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg. He came to DESY in 1989. 6 months later he became Leading Scientist and in 1993 Head of the Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory HASYLAB. He started his professional career as an electrician and electrical engineer. In 1965 he began to study physics in Hamburg and Grenoble where he graduated. Afterwards Jochen R. Schneider became a scientist at the Laue-Langevin-Institute (ILL) in Grenoble. In 1976 he went to the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin. His scientific work focussed on "Experimental Physics and Crystallography", a field in which he also habilitated at the Technical University Berlin in 1982. At DESY he concentrated his scientific research on the characteristics of solids like structural phase transitions, which can be investigated very efficiently with the high energy synchrotron radiation of the DESY accelerators "DORIS" and "PETRA". Recently his main field of interest was the realization of so called Free-Electron-Lasers which will be used at DESY to produce X-ray radiation, thus offering completely new perspectives to scientists. Prof. Schneider is member of various commissions and expertise boards in Germany, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and the United States of America.

The German Electron Synchrotron DESY is a scientific center for basic research. It was founded on December 18, 1959, in order to build high energy accelerators for elementary particle physics as a research facility for German universities. First a ring-shapeOn December 9, 1999, the Administrative Council of the German Electron Synchrotron DESY has made effective the extension of the DESY Directorate, planned since the beginning of this year. From now on the Board of Directors will have six members instead of five: the new director is in charge of "Research with Synchrotron Radiation", which in the last years has developed to become a second important research field along with elementary particle physics. Prof. Dr. Jochen R. Schneider was nominated Director of this field, a position which he will assume on January 1, 2000. Moreover the Administrative Council nominated Prof. Robert Klanner as DESY Research Director. He will be in charge of elementary particle physics, the first important research field of DESY. Prof. Klanner succeeds Prof. Dr. Albrecht Wagner who became Head of the DESY Directorate (Director General) in July of this year.

The elementary particle physicist Dr. Robert Klanner (54) accepted a Chair as a Full Professor of experimental physics in 1996 after being a leading scientist at DESY for 15 years in one of the four main HERA research groups. He was born in Austria, studied physics at the Technical University in Munich and finished his diploma thesis at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva. The scientific research in a CERN-Serpukhov experiment for his graduation at the University of Munich even led him to Russia. Afterwards Robert Klanner became Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. From 1975 to 1984 he was a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich and worked on different particle physics experiments at CERN. In 1984 he became a Leading Scientist at DESY, Hamburg. He collaborated in the development of the large HERA-detector "ZEUS" and participated in the particle physics research with this measuring device. His main fields of interest were special investigations of heavy quarks and of the strong interaction between these building blocks of matter. During the last years Professor Klanner has been a member of several expertise boards of accelerator research centers in the United States, Switzerland and Canada, moreover in several commissions of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of the scientific journal "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research", Section A.

The solid state physicist Prof. Dr. Jochen R. Schneider (58) is professor for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg. He came to DESY in 1989. 6 months later he became Leading Scientist and in 1993 Head of the Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory HASYLAB. He started his professional career as an electrician and electrical engineer. In 1965 he began to study physics in Hamburg and Grenoble where he graduated. Afterwards Jochen R. Schneider became a scientist at the Laue-Langevin-Institute (ILL) in Grenoble. In 1976 he went to the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin. His scientific work focussed on "Experimental Physics and Crystallography", a field in which he also habilitated at the Technical University Berlin in 1982. At DESY he concentrated his scientific research on the characteristics of solids like structural phase transitions, which can be investigated very efficiently with the high energy synchrotron radiation of the DESY accelerators "DORIS" and "PETRA". Recently his main field of interest was the realization of so called Free-Electron-Lasers which will be used at DESY to produce X-ray radiation, thus offering completely new perspectives to scientists. Prof. Schneider is member of various commissions and expertise boards in Germany, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and the United States of America.

The German Electron Synchrotron DESY is a scientific center for basic research. It was founded on December 18, 1959, in order to build high energy accelerators for elementary particle physics as a research facility for German universities. First a ring-shaped "Electron Synchrotron" was built which also gave the research center its name. The next projects were the two storage rings for electrons and their antiparticles, the positrons, named "DORIS" (289 m circumference) and "PETRA" (2.3 km circumference). Since 1992 the underground Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator "HERA" (6.3 km circumference) is operating and today 1200 particle physicists from Germany and other countries are doing research with this "super electron microscope" for the smallest particles of matter. Already in the middle of the sixties the DESY scientists recognized the extreme importance of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the circling electrons in the accelerators for other fields of science. Since then DESY pushed forward the utilization of this "synchrotron radiation". Today 2200 scientists at DESY make use of it for investigation in the fields of physics, molecular biology, chemistry, geological sciences and medicine. These fields of natural science can investigate the structure and the properties of materials and biological microstructures of atoms. Today, both research branches have become equally important programs of DESY. DESY is a member of the Herman von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF). 1550 employees and 3400 scientists from 35 countries work at DESY. The annual budget of 295 million DM is financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (90%), the City of Hamburg and the federal state of Brandenburg (10%). d "Electron Synchrotron" was built which also gave the research center its name. The next projects were the two storage rings for electrons and their antiparticles, the positrons, named "DORIS" (289 m circumference) and "PETRA" (2.3 km circumference). Since 1992 the underground Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator "HERA" (6.3 km circumference) is operating and today 1200 particle physicists from Germany and other countries are doing research with this "super electron microscope" for the smallest particles of matter. Already in the middle of the sixties the DESY scientists recognized the extreme importance of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the circling electrons in the accelerators for other fields of science. Since then DESY pushed forward the utilization of this "synchrotron radiation". Today 2200 scientists at DESY make use of it for investigation in the fields of physics, molecular biology, chemistry, geological sciences and medicine. These fields of natural science can investigate the structure and the properties of materials and biological microstructures of atoms. Today, both research branches have become equally important programs of DESY. DESY is a member of the Herman von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF). 1550 employees and 3400 scientists from 35 countries work at DESY. The annual budget of 295 million DM is financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (90%), the City of Hamburg and the federal state of Brandenburg (10%).