ESCAPE - The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064.
Francisco (Paco) Colomer is director of the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), a European Research Infrastructure that serves as the central organization of the European VLBI Network, a collaboration of more than 20 radio telescopes distributed around the world. Colomer earned his PhD in astrophysics from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and is an MBA in “Management of Research Infrastructures” by the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He is the permanent staff of the National Astronomical Observatory in Spain. During his career, he has participated in more than 100 scientific papers, numerous conferences and workshops, international projects and outreach activities. He is the current chair of the ERIC Forum, which comprises 23 European Research Infrastructure Consortia grouped in 5 clusters, to discuss the strategies, best practices and efficiently interact with the European Commission and other stakeholders.