The Bodies of ISSI - Organization Chart
The Board of Trustees oversees the work accomplished by the institute, exerts financial control, and appoints the ISSI Directors and members of the Science Committee. The members of the Board of Trustees are of the representatives of the Founder and of the funding agencies.
Members of the Board of Trustees:
Chairman: Simon Aegerter, the Cogito Foundation, Wollerau, Switzerland
Vice Chairman: Willy Benz, University of Bern, Switzerland
Secretary of the Board: Kathrin Altwegg, University of Bern, Switzerland
Hans Balsiger, University of Bern, Switzerland
Lennard A. Fisk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Daniel Fürst, RUAG, Zurich, Switzerland
Alvaro Giménez, ESA, Paris, France
Rosine Lallement, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
André Maeder, Observatoire de Genève Sauverny, Switzerland
Daniel Neuenschwander, Swiss Space Office, Bern, Switzerland
Risto Pellinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Nicolas Thomas, President of the Pro ISSI Association, Bern, Switzerland
Sergio Volonté, Former Head of the Planning and Coordination Office in the Science and Robotic Exploration Directorate, ESA, Paris, France - retired
Lev M. Zelenyi, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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The ISSI Directorate is in charge of the scientific, operational and administrative management of the International Space Science Institute. It interacts with the Space Agencies, the Swiss authorities, the Board of Trustees, the Science Committee and the Association Pro ISSI.
Members of the Directorate:
Rafael Rodrigo, Executive Director
Lennart Bengtsson, Director Earth Science
Len Culhane, Director
Rudolf von Steiger, Director
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The Science Committee is made up of internationally renowned scientists. It supports the Directorate in the establishment of the scientific agenda, e.g., evaluating the scientific team proposals of the Annual Call.
Members of the Science Committee:
Chairman: Tilman Spohn, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany
Anny Cazenave, LEGOS, CNES, France
Véronique Dehant, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Thierry Dudok de Wit, LPCE, CNRS, Orléans, France
Joanna D. Haigh, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Masahiro Hoshino, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hugh Hudson, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, USA
Niklaus Kämpfer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Richard Marsden, ESTEC ESA, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Mark McCaughrean, ESTEC ESA, Noordwijk, the Netherlands (ex officio ESA)
Georges Meylan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Rumi Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria
Mikhail Pavlinsky, IKI, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (ex officio RAS)
Michael Rast, ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy (ex officio ESA)
Valery L. Shematovich, Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Luigi Stella, INAF, Rome, Italy
Michael Thompson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA
Marco Velli, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA
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The Association Pro ISSI under the direction of the Board of the Association Pro ISSI promotes the ideas of ISSI to the Swiss public and the science community by organizing public lectures and events in Switzerland where internationally known space scientists present their findings. Summaries of these talks are published in the journal "SPATIUM".
Members of the Board of the Association Pro ISSI:
President: Nicolas Thomas, University of Bern, Switzerland
Treasurer: Frank Rutschmann, Bern, Switzerland
Editor of Spatium: Hansjörg Schlaepfer, Zurich, Switzerland
Secretary: Silvia Wenger, International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
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Funding Agencies of the International Space Science Institute
List of former members of all bodies of ISSI >
last update: 24 January 2013
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