The Science Committee is made up of internationally renowned scientists. It supports the Executive Director and the Directorate in the establishment of the scientific programme., e.g., evaluating the scientific team proposals of the Annual Call.
Angela Adamo (Chair), Stockholm University, Sweden
Sabina Raducan (Secretary of the Science Committee), International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Annett Bartsch, b.geos, Korneuburg, Austria
Paul Charbonneau, University of Montreal, Canada
Annalisa De Cia, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany
Xiaolong Dong, International Space Science Institute Beijing, Beijing, China (ex officio)
Ilaria Ermolli, INAF-OAR, Italy
Vladislav Izmodenov, IKI, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (ex officio RAS)
Jasmina Magdalenić, University of Leuven, Belgium
Roberto Maiolino, University of Cambridge, UK
Michael Meyer, University of Michigan, USA
Paul McNamara, ESTEC ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (ex officio ESA)
Samaya Nissanke, University of Potsdam, Germany (leading scientist at DESY)
Claudia Stolle, IAP Kühlungsborn, Germany
Shogo Tachibana, UTOPS University of Tokyo, Japan
Daniel Verscharen, UCL, UK
Linghua Wang, Peking University, China
Michael Wong, UC Berkeley, USA
updated: June 8, 2026
