Dr. Norbert Holtkamp was born in Fuerstenau/Germany in 1961. He studied physics at the University of Berlin, where he also began to develop a special interest in accelerator physics. Since then Dr. Holtkamp has worked at several accelerator laboratories around the world: he got his PhD at the University of Darmstadt, moved on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, and in 1998 he moved on to the United States to work at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago. In 2000 Dr. Holtkamp was offered to lead the construction of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Accelerator, where he started work in January of 2001.