Volker Beckmann

EOSC Steering Board and ESFRI-EOSC Task Force Co-Chair, EOSC France Manager, French e-IRG Delegate 

Since September 2020 I am responsible for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in France at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Since February 2022 I am co-chair of the EOSC Steering Board and since June 2023 the co-chair of the ESFRI-EOSC task force. I am the French delegate for e-IRG and serve as expert on the Horizon Europe INFRA programme committee. 

I finished my PhD in astrophysics at Hamburg University in 2001, and then worked in astrophysics and space science in Switzerland and at NASA's Goddard space flight centre and taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In 2009 I became researcher at CNRS in France and from 2016 to 2020 I was scientific director for Computing and Data Science at the national institute for particle, astroparticle, and nuclear physics (CNRS-IN2P3). I was work package leader in the EOSCpilot and in the EOSC-Pillar project before joining the ministry