Governance
of the
Collaboration

The Collaboration is governed by the Collaboration Board and the Collaboration Council and run on a daily basis by the Bureau.

Collaboration Board

Collaboration Board is the body gathering all members, a place to exchange information, discuss and interact with all your fellow counterparts. As a member you can shape the direction of the Collaboration by exercising your voting rights (one vote per member) and providing your valuable insights.

Javier Serrano

Collaboration Board Chair

Javier Serrano leads the Electronics Design and Low level software section in CERN’s accelerator Controls, Electronics and Mechatronics group. An engineer and physicist by training, his work on controls and data acquisition for particle accelerators was recognised in 2017 through the ICALEPCS Lifetime Achievement Award. He specialises in accurate and precise synchronisation solutions such as White Rabbit. A native of Castellón, Spain, Javier was one of the trailblazers in the early days of open hardware, and has contributed extensively to its practice on several fronts: creating and managing the Open Hardware Repository, co-authoring the CERN Open Hardware Licence, working with companies and other stakeholders to find appropriate business models, and coordinating CERN’s contribution to the development of KiCad. He is an alumni board member of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) and was involved in the launch of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH). He has contributed to the drafting of the hardware part of CERN’s Open Science Policy and to the creation of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at CERN. Javier is also very keen on education and advocacy.

Representatives

Evangelia Gousiou

CERN

Eva, electronics engineer, is the coordinator of the WR team at CERN (5-8 FTEs, electronics and software developers) that is working for the implementation and maintenance of WR applications for the CERN accelerators.

Peter Jansweijer

Nikhef

Lead engineer at the electronics technology (ET) department of Nikhef that has been actively involved in WR since 2010.
Main contributions are WR absolute calibration and various low phase noise hardware implementations.
Peter is member of the New Features Committee in the P1588 Working Group

Nick Amey

IQD Frequency Products

Nick Amey MIET, Studied Electronics and Telecommunications at Coventry, UK, 20 years at IQD Frequency Products LTD, Senior Member of the IEEE

Benoît Rat

Safran

Graduated as "communication systems" engineer from EPFL, he started collaborating in 2010 on the development of the White Rabbit Switch. He has since continued bringing sub-nanosecond synchronization to a wide range of devices in time-critical infrastructures. In his current role as director of the Special Projects Unit, he oversees the implementation of innovative PNT solutions within emerging markets.

Guanghua Gong

SyncTechnology

Associate Researcher at Tsinghua University and technical manager of SyncTechnology; involved in WR since 2014 and leads a team focusing on the WR timing system for particle physics facilities such as cosmic ray observatory and XFEL, contributes to the design of CUTE series WR nodes and a fan-less WRS hardware.

Daniel Chung Yoon

GMV

Section head of GMV’s Time and Frequency division in the UK. He is experienced in managing and leading technical work for timescale generation and distribution projects. He is leading the development of a White Rabbit Switch v4 at GMV in the UK

Bence Szikora

Jump Trading

Seth Friedman

Liquid Markets Solutions

Bob Noseworthy

InterOperability Laboratory UNH

Shareef Jalloq

Nu Quantum

Kris Meeus

Myrrha

Within MINERVA, the Integrated Control System group is responsible for developing the MINERVA wide Control and Interlock System. Kris is working in this group as a project engineer / product owner responsible for the real-time domain, where White Rabbit technology will be used in the Timing and Triggering System.

Mike Schonberg

McKay Brothers

Mike is a seasoned engineer with over 25 years of experience in the technology industry. He shows great enthusiasm for finding cutting edge and elegant solutions to difficult problems. For the past 19 years he focused on providing low latency, high performance solutions for hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and large financial institutions. He currently co-runs the technology group at Quincy Data and McKay Brothers. Mike has been instrumental in the design and implementation of Quincy's market data distribution platforms. He currently oversees a variety of technology projects including market data distribution, custom low latency network endpoint devices, and Quincy Data TSaaS time transfer and synchronization service.

Paul Klop

Surf

As the Technical Product Manager and Optical Architect within SURF's Expert Networks team, I am responsible for transitioning both local and international optical network designs to a future-proof DWDM transport network. Another key focus is implementing a sub-nanosecond timing distribution network using the White Rabbit protocol, with a strong emphasis on operational management.

Jean-Michel Friedt

University of Franche-Comté

Jean-Michel Friedt is associate professor at University of Franche-Comté in Besançon (France) with his research activity hosted by the Time & Frequency department of the FEMTO-ST Institute. He is interested in the use of digital electronics for time and frequency signal generation and dissemination, including for distributed passive RADAR applications and more generally coherent radiofrequency signal acquisition and generation for distributed Software Defined Radio. He has been contributing and promoting libre, opensource software and hardware for the last 30 years.

Georg Sauthoff

Deutsche Börse

Dietrich Beck

GSI

Member of the Timing and Online Scheduling (TOS) team at GSI. TOS develops, maintains and operates the White Rabbit based timing system of the entire accelerator complex at GSI and FAIR. Dietrich joined the team in 2011 and takes care of operational aspects as well as synchronizing the transfer of ion beams between all injectors and ring machines at GSI and FAIR.

Tommaso Chiarusi

INFN

Tommaso Chiarusi, Physicist, is a Lead Researcher in Astro-Particle Physics at INFN-Sezione Bologna, with activities in Multi-messenger Astronomy research field. Since 2013 Tommaso is the DAQ Coordinator of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope and, since 2022, he is also part of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration. In such contexts Tommaso’s activities are focussed on the design and test of data acquisition systems which leverage the WR-based technology for time-synchronisation and data transport.

Collaboration Council

Collaboration Council is a smaller body consisting of non-commercial members (there will be up to one member in the Council for every five members of the Collaboration). The mission of the Collaboration Council is to ensure that the WR Technology remains vendor neutral and equally benefits all members and users of the WR Technology. CERN has always one representative in the Council.

Maciej Lipinski

Collaboration Council Chair

Specialist in control and timing at CERN; co-author of the White Rabbit extension to PTP (IEEE1588-2008) and IEEE1588-2019; chair of the New Features Committee in the P1588 Working Group.

Council Members