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International Space Science Institute (ISSI)Hallerstrasse 6
3012 Bern
Switzerland

Phone +41 31 684 48 96
Email issi@issibern.ch

Our scientific opportunities support the community through six distinct modes of operation. Links to proposal templates or on-line submission forms are provided for each individual tool.

Find explanations, forms of applications and an overview of current and past activities.

Visiting Scientists

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.

Visiting Scientist

Research or collaboration with ISSI staff, other visitors, or with scientists based at other nearby institutions.

Participants

Individual scientists, or small groups of 2–3
all career stages

Output

Scientific papers or other publications, collaboration building,
proposals for new ISSI activities, etc.

Starting Point

Open call with on-line application form.
Submissions are assessed on a quarterly basis

Duration/Visits

max. 2 months
As single trip
or multiple visits.

ISSI Support

↷ Office Space
↷ Per diem
↷ Accommodation

Current Scientists in 2024

Sudip Bhattacharyya, TIFR Mumbai, India, working period: 24.6.-12.7.2024

Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii, Mãnoa, Honolulu, working period: 20.5.-10.6.2024

Duncan Galloway, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, working period: 10.11-1.12.2024

Gozaliasl Ghassem, University of Finland, Finland, working period: 3.-24.8.2024

Octavio Guilera, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, working period: 17.2.-27.3.2024

Peter Hoppe, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany, working period: 29.4.-8.5.2024

Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois, USA, working period: 10.-30.11.2024

Immanuel Jebaraj, University of Turku, Finland, working period: 1.7.–10.8.2024

Vladimir Krasnosselskikh, working period: 30.6.–6.4.2024

Sarah Leslie, Leiden University, Belgium, working period: 28.4.- 9.5.2024

Zhaosheng Li, working period: 24.-30.11.2024

Charles Lineweaver, Australian National University, working period: 5.-20.4.2024

Michael Mayer, Johannes Geiss Fellow 2024, working period: 24.6.-24.7.2024

Yuri Skorov, MPS/TU Braunschweig, Germany, working period : tbc

René Šprňa, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic, working period: 29.9.–2.10.2024

Ilya Usoskin, University of Oulu, Finland, working periods: 20.5.–16.6.2024

Peter Zeidler, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA, working period: 8.-18.9.2024

Image: Thibaut Roger/NCCR PlanetS