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
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
