The ISSI Visiting Scientist programme enables short-duration visits to ISSI to conduct research based on data from space-based observatories or space missions. The programme is open to all scientists, regardless of career stage, nationality or institutional affiliation. Small groups of two or three individuals, who would like to meet at ISSI to pursue collaborative work in space science or Earth observation, are also welcome to apply.
Applications can be submitted four times a year (March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1). They are evaluated by the ISSI directorate with a short turn-around.
Research or collaboration with ISSI staff, other visitors, or with scientists based at other nearby institutions.
Individual scientists, or small groups of 2–3
all career stages
Scientific papers or other publications, collaboration building,
proposals for new ISSI activities, etc.
Open call with on-line application form.
Submissions are assessed on a quarterly basis
max. 2 months
As single trip
or multiple visits.
↷ Office Space
↷ Per diem
↷ Accommodation
The following Visiting Scientists have worked at ISSI in the course of the 30th year:
Ghassem Asrar, University of Maryland, USA, working periods: 7.-24.4.2025 and 10.-22.6.2025
Stuart Bale, University of California Berkeley USA,working period: 23.6.-21.7.2025
Alina Bent, University of Warwick, UK, working period: 15.-19.9.2025
Sandra Chapman, University of Warwick, UK, working period: 15.-19.9.2025
Jianli Chen, University of Texas at Austin, USA, working period: 2.6.-31.7.2025
Angela Dapremont, Johns Hopkins University, USA, working period: 18.6.-9.7.2025
Jan Docekal, Silesian University Opava, Czechia, working period: 24-28. 2.2025
Duncan Galloway, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, working period: 7.-24.1.2025
Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii, USA, working period: 13.-24.10.2025
Federico Gasperini, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, working period: 30.6-11.7.2025
Thomas Henning, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Germany, working period: 1.-6.6.2025
Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois, USA, working periods: 7.-23.1.2025, 10.-26.2.2025 and 7.-25.4.2025
Jay Johnson, Andrews University, USA, working periods: 3.-14.6.2025 and 13.-17.10.2025
Connan Liptrott, University of Warwick, UK, working period: 15.-19.9.2025
Maria Madjarska, MPI for Solar System, Germany, working period: 16.-22.11.2025
Ben Poulter, Johannes Geiss Fellow, working periods: 22.2-7.3.2025, 14.7.-8.8.2025, 24.9-12.10.2025 and 2.-5.12.2025
Ivano Saccheo, University of Bristol, UK, working period: 10-21.3.2025
Jan Schee, Silesian University Opava, Czechia, working period: 24-28. 2.2025
Juri Skorov, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany, working period: 24.7.-15.8.2025
Nicolas Watkins, University of Warwick, UK, working period: 15.-19.9.2025
Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University, working periods: 3.-14.6.2025 and 13.-17.10.2025
