Prof. Rolf Tarrach (Valencia, Spain, 1948)

Dr. Rolf Tarrach has been president of the new University of Luxembourg from 2005 to 2014. He has studied physics in Valencia, has received a PhD degree in Barcelona and has been postdoc at CERN, Geneva.  Dr. Tarrach is professor of physics and has served in that capacity at the universities of Valencia and Barcelona. He has published some 100 articles in quantum physics. He has an honorary degree from the University of Saint Petersburg and has received awards and decorations in Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg. He has been Vice-president at the University of Barcelona. He is a former president of CSIC (the Spanish Scientific Research Council, Madrid), and a former member of EURAB, EUROHORCS, ESOF2004, 2006 and 2008, former president of ACA (Brussels) and former Vice-chair of the jury of the French “Initiative d’excellence”.  He chaired the committee of international experts EU2015 (2011, Spain). He has sat and sits on the advisory boards of two companies. He is EUA’s president as of July 2015.