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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: Hans Balsiger, University of Bern, Switzerland
Secretary of the Board: Kathrin Altwegg, University of Bern, Switzerland
Benz Willy, University of Bern, Switzerland
Bleeker Johan, Chairman of the Science Committee, SRON, the Netherlands
Lennard A. Fisk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Rosine Lallement, Service d’Aéronomie CNRS, Verrières-le-Buisson, France
André Maeder, Observatoire de Genève Sauverny, Switzerland
Daniel Neuenschwander, Swiss Space Office, Bern, Switzerland
Risto Pellinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Klaus Pretzl, President of the Pro ISSI Association, Bern, Switzerland
Hanspeter Schneiter, Oerlikon Space AG, Zurich, Switzerland
David Southwood, ESA, Paris, France
Sergio Volonté, Hyon-Mons, Belgique
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:

Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Executive Director
André Balogh, Director
Lennart Bengtsson, Director Earth Science
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: Johan Bleeker, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Thierry Dudok de Wit, LPCE, CNRS, Orléans, France
Claus Fröhlich, PMD Davos, Switzerland
Véronique Dehant, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
John Harries, Imperial College of Science and Technology London, UK
Einar-Arne Herland, ESRIN ESA, Frascati, Italy (ex officio ESA)
Masahiro Hoshino, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Niklaus Kämpfer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Robert Kandel, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, Palaiseau, France
Duccio Macchetto, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA
Richard Marsden, ESTEC ESA, Noordwijk, the Netherlands (ex officio ESA)
Tobias Owen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Götz Paschmann, MPI Garching, Germany
Valery L. Shematovich, Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Michael Thompson, University of Sheffield, UK
Dimitry Titov, MPI Lindau Katlenburg, Germany
Monica Tosi, INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy

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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: Klaus Pretzl, University of Bern, Switzerland
Vice President: Nick 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



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last update: 2 July 2010

 

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