Member-at-Large (International)

Isabel Béjar Alonso is a Senior Staff Scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Isabel Béjar Alonso brings three decades of experience at CERN combining engineering, safety oversight and large-scale project governance. She began her career after earning her Physics degree from the University of Barcelona and an MBA in Management of Technology (EPFL / UT Austin). 

At CERN, she has authored and co-authored key safety documentation addressing accelerator radiation protection, system design and risk assessment. 

In her role, she has overseen safety-inspections, hazard-analysis and verification of complex systems — ensuring designs meet the “as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA) principle and relevant host-state regulations.
She has also held leadership positions in engineering change-management and industrial technology-transfer, enabling safe integration of infrastructure-upgrades and operational systems. She also led in the past CERN’s Safety Health and Safety Group.

Presently it is the Project leader of the Beryllium facility at CERN, a facility dedicated to the production of components made of Beryllium metal for its accelerator systems and infrastructure.

She would like to bring:

• A strong grounding in risk-assessment and safety management for      high-hazard systems.
• Experience integrating safety culture into multidisciplinary      engineering programs.
• Proven ability to liaise between technical, regulatory and      operational stakeholders — ensuring that safety-standards are embedded in design, commissioning and maintenance phases.
• A large vision of the usage of Beryllium metal in Europe and      the wish to confederate it. 

Isabel is committed to fostering safe working environments, continuous hazard-control improvement and knowledge sharing across the community using Beryllium.