Mirjam van Daalen has a PhD in structural Geology and is currently director of communications at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). During her work at PSI since 2009, first as Science Officer of the SwissFEL project and after as chief of staff of the Photon Science Division she has a strong expertise in the field of building and running RIs. In 2020 she was very involved in creating ARIE a consortium of seven Europe-wide research networks that are working together to address the Missions of HE. Since 2018 Mirjam is Swiss Delegate in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) mandated by Swiss state Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.

While coordinating and participating in EU FP7 and HZ2020 projects, she gathered long term experience in the development of policy frameworks on the European level and creation of a sustainable federated open data infrastructure, integrating the existing user data systems, data management and data analysis systems of the European Photon and Neutron facilities. Mirjam was Swiss delegate for the working group on EOSC sustainability of the EOSC secretariat and was chairing the ESFRI taskforce on EOSC until March 2022. She is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Federated IT Services Project HIFIS and chair of the Beamline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS) steering committee. She was strongly involved in the new League of European Accelerator Based Photon Sources (LEAPS), and was vice-chair of its coordination board until 2020.

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