The Board of Trustees
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:
Chair: Willy Benz, University of Bern, Switzerland
Vice Chair: Monica Tosi, INAF – OAS Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Secretary of the Board: Maurizio Falanga, International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Lennard A. Fisk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Renato Krpoun, Swiss Space Office, Bern, Switzerland
Hitoshi Kuninaka, Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS), JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan
Georges Meynet, Observatoire de Sauverny, University of Geneva, Sauverny, Switzerland
Christoph Mordasini, President of the Pro ISSI Association, Bern, Switzerland
Carole Mundell, ESA, Paris, France
Aude Pugin, APCO Technologies, Aigle, Switzerland
Linda J. Tacconi, MPI for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
Nicolas Thomas, University of Bern, Switzerland
Holger Wentscher, Beyond Gravity, RUAG, Switzerland
Ji Wu, National Space Science Center (CAS) and International Space Science Institute Beijing, China
Lev M. Zelenyi, Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
The Directorate
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:
Antonella Nota, Executive Director
Maurizio Falanga, Director
Thierry Dudok de Wit, Director
Michael Rast, Director
The Science Committee
The Science Committee is made up of internationally renowned scientists. It supports the Executive Director and the Directorate in the establishment of the scientific program., e.g., evaluating the scientific team proposals of the Annual Call.
Members of the Science Committee:
Chair: Emmanuelle J. Javaux, Université de Liège, Belgium
Secretary of the Science Committee: Mark Sargent, International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Elena Amato, INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
Annett Bartsch, b.geos, Korneuburg, Austria
Svetlana Berdyugina, IRSOL Locarno, Switzerland
Emeline Bolmont, Obs. of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Frédéric Courbin, EPFL, Observatoire de Sauverny, Versoix, Switzerland
Xiaolong Dong, International Space Science Institute Beijing, Beijing, China (ex officio)
Eelco Doornbos, KNMI, the Netherlands
Ilaria Ermolli, INAF-OAR, Italy
Shinsuke Imada, University of Tokyo, Japan
Vladislav Izmodenov, IKI, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (ex officio RAS)
Catherine L. Johnson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Benjamin Koetz, ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy (ex officio ESA)
Jasmina Magdalenić, University of Leuven, Belgium
Philippa J. Mason, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Mark McCaughrean, ESTEC ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (ex officio ESA)
Céline Péroux, ESO (European Southern Observatory), Garching, Germany
Daniel Verscharen, UCL, UK
Linghua Wang, Peking University, China
The Association Pro ISSI
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: Christoph Mordasini, University of Bern, Switzerland
Treasurer: Annette Jaeckel, Bern, Switzerland
Editors of Spatium: Anuschka Pauluhn, PSI, Switzerland and Andreas Verdun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Secretary: Yasmine Calisesi, Bern, Switzerland
Funding Agencies of the International Space Science Institute
Further Support
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