Hazards and challenges of climate change and relevant space
observations.
Observations and initiatives required for the forecasting of space
weather.
Scientists-industry relationships and the challenges of emerging
private actors.
Opportunities and projects for the sustainable use of small
satellites for space research.
International cooperation in planetary exploration, astrophysics,
and human space exploration.
Ioannis Daglis
Hellenic Space Center, Athens, Greece
Ioannis A. Daglis isProfessor of Space Physics at the
University of Athensand President of the Hellenic Space
Center.He is an expert in solar-terrestrial coupling processes
and space weather; his work is focused on the dynamics of
energetic particles and of geospace magnetic storms. He
has(co-)authored100+ scientific papersandhas edited and
co-authored 5 textbooks; the most recent book, “Waves,
particles and storms in geospace”, co-edited with G. Balasis
and I.R. Mann, was published by OUP in 2016.He has been a
Co-Investigator on three NASA missions (SAC-B, Polar, THEMIS)
and two ESA missions(BepiColombo, Proba3).
Guenther Hasinger
European Space Agency (ESA-ESAC), Madrid, Spain
Dr. Günther Hasinger is a world leader in the field of X-ray
astronomy and in the study of black holes, objects whose
gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them.
He received his physics diploma from Ludwig Maximilian
University (LMU) of Munich, and in 1984, he earned a PhD in
astronomy from LMU for research done at the Max Planck
Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE).
After visiting lectureships in the United States, he returned
to Germany to take a position at the University of Potsdam. He
served as director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam from
1994 to 2001. In 2001, he was appointed as a scientific member
of the Max Planck Society, one of the world’s premier research
organizations, and as the director of the High-Energy-Group at
MPE. In 2007, he spent four months at the Institute for
Astronomy (IfA) while on sabbatical, and in 2008 he became
scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma
Physics (IPP), the position he relinquished to become the
director of the IfA.
Dr. Hasinger has received numerous awards for his research and
scientific achievements, including the Leibniz Prize of the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most significant research
prize in Germany, and the international Committee on Space
Research (COSPAR) Award for his outstanding contributions to
space science. He is a member of the Academia Europea, the
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and Leopoldina (the
German National Academy of Sciences), and an external member
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Together with his colleagues, Dr. Hasinger resolved the cosmic
X-ray background radiation into distinct objects, which were
then identified mainly as active black holes in distant
galaxies. These studies showed that the cosmological evolution
of active galactic nuclei (the centers of galaxies that emit
much more radiation than can be produced by stars alone) is
closely associated with the star-forming history of galaxies
in the Universe and that black holes are likely motors for the
development of galaxies.
Dr. Hasinger has also played a key role in the operation of
X-ray satellites and the development of future observatories.
When the attitude control system of ROSAT, a joint
German-UK-US X-ray and ultraviolet satellite, failed soon
after launch in 1990, Dr. Hasinger was instrumental in
developing a new control system that enabled the satellite to
continue its mission.
Dr. Hasinger has also held several important national and
international responsibilities, such as the chair of the
Council of German Observatories and the president of the
International Astronomical Union Division on Space and High
Energy Astrophysics. He played a significant role in improving
the financial constraints of basic space research in Germany
and Europe.
In addition to writing numerous scientific papers, Dr.
Hasinger is the author of an award-winning book, Fate of the
Universe, which explains astrophysics and cosmology to a wider
audience, and the winner of the Wilhelm Foerster Prize for
public dissemination of science in 2011.
Dr. Hasinger was born in Oberammergau, Germany, in 1954. He is
married to Barbara Kreiss-Hasinger, and they have two grown
children.
Andrew Johnson
Manager, Space Policy and Regulatory Systems, New Zealand
Space Agency, Wellington, New Zealand
Mr. Andrew Johnson has been the deputy head of the New Zealand
Space Agency since 2018.
He earned a BSc in Psychology and a BCA (Hons) in Economics
from Victoria University of Wellington. Andrew is an economist
and public policy professional with fifteen years’ experience
in economic analysis, stakeholder management, and policy
development. Prior to starting work at the NZSA, Andrew
previously held roles with New Zealand's Ministry for the
Environment, the New Zealand Treasury, HM Treasury in the UK,
as well as several private sector roles. His focus in the last
two years at the NZSA has been on continuing to support and
extend the development of New Zealand's Outer Space and
High-altitude Activities Act regime and develop the New
Zealand space sector through collaborations with other
international space agencies and working with the New Zealand
research and commercial sector.
Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Bonn, Germany
Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla studied mechanical engineering and
materials science in Bochum and Darmstadt. She completed her
doctorate and qualified as a university lecturer at Ruhr
University in Bochum. Following research activities at the
Hahn-Meitner-Institute (HMI) and the Technical University of
Berlin, she conducted research and taught as a university
professor at the Vienna University of Technology from 2003 to
2005. In 2005, she joined the management team at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH in Dusseldorf as
Scientific Member, Director and then Managing Director. In
2008, she was appointed Scientific Director of the Helmholtz
Centre for Materials and Energy in Berlin (Helmholtz-Zentrum
Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH), which was created
under her leadership through the merger of HMI and the Berlin
Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation
(BESSY). In 2017, Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla was elected President
of TU Braunschweig, a post she held until the DLR Senate
unanimously appointed her as the new Chair of the Executive
Board in March 2020.
Hitoshi Kuninaka
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) Japan
Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Kanagawa,
Japan
Dr. Kuninaka completed a Ph.D. program in aerodynamics at the
University of Tokyo’s School of Engineering in 1988. That same
year he took up a new post at the Institute of Space and
Astronautical Science, which is now part of JAXA. In 2005, Dr.
Kuninaka became a professor of aerospace engineering at the
University of Tokyo’s School of Engineering. In 2011 he served
as Lunar and Planetary Exploration Program Group Director,
then assumed his current post in 2012. Dr. Kuninaka’s areas of
expertise are electric propulsion and plasma engineering. He
has been involved in the development of the ion engines for
the Hayabusa asteroid explorers.
Jean-Yves Le Gall
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Paris, France
Jean-Yves Le Gall is President of the Centre National d’Etudes
Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, since 2013. In this
capacity, he is interministerial coordinator for satellite
navigation programmes. He is also Honorary Ambassador and
former President of the International Astronautical Federation
(IAF).
CNES is responsible for shaping and executing France’s space
policy. It is involved in all aspects of space (Ariane,
Sciences, Earth Observation, Telecommunications, Defence)
through its four centres of excellence in Paris, Toulouse and
French Guiana, with 2,350 employees and a budget of €2.335bn
(2021). CNES represents France on the Council of the European
Space Agency (ESA) and at many other international
organizations, and is a partner in several commercial
enterprises.
Born in 1959, Jean-Yves Le Gall has devoted his entire career
to the European space programme, holding positions within the
French national scientific research agency CNRS, several
French ministries, at Novespace and a first stint with CNES
before joining Starsem and then Arianespace, where he was
Chairman & CEO. In addition to leading CNES, he has also been
Chair of ESA Council and Chair of the Administrative Board of
GSA, the European GNSS Agency in charge of Galileo.
Jean-Yves Le Gall is a member of the International Academy of
Astronautics (IAA) and Vice-President of the "Space Circle" at
French think-tank CEPS (Centre d’Etude et de Prospective
Stratégique). He chairs the France-Japan business council of
Medef International, is President of the Foundation for the
study of the Japanese language and civilization and a member
of the French-Mexican Strategic Council. He also sits on the
board of Paris Est Créteil University and on the Strategic
Oversight Committee of Paris-Saclay University.
In 2001, he received the Astronautics Prize from the French
Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAAF). He was
named Via Satellite magazine’s 2005 Satellite Executive of the
Year and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from
the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC). In
2011 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Society of
Satellite Professionals International (SPPI) and received the
Icarus Prize from the French association of professional
aerospace journalists (AJPAE). In 2014 he received a Laureate
Award from Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and in
2018 the California Institute of Technology presented him with
the International Von Kármán Wings Award.
Jean-Yves Le Gall holds the ranks of Commander of the Legion
of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. He has
also been awarded the Order of Friendship by the Russian
Federation and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver
Star, by the government of Japan. He is Doctor Honoris Causa
of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology.
Anatoli Petrukovich
Space Research Institute (IKI), Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia
Anatoli Petrukovich is director of Space Research Institute
(IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences. The mission of IKI is
development of space science and technology with the focus on
spacecraft observations in a range from Earth science to
cosmology. Не received a Master degree from the Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990. Нe joined Space
Research Institute as researcher, later became head of space
weather lab, head of space plasma physics department. Since
2018 he is IKI director. He received a COSPAR Zeldovich medal
for young scientists in 2002. Since 2011 he is corresponding
member of Russian Academy of Sciences. Petrukovich scientific
interests are related with dynamics of the magnetosphere and
substorms, space weather forecasts. A. Petrukovich is
professor in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He
was an associate editor of «Journal Geophysical Research -
Space Physics» (2012-2014) and is now an Editor-in-chief of
Russian «Cosmic Research» journal.
Karl Rodrigues
Australian Space Agency, Canberra, Australia
Karl Rodrigues is responsible for developing relationships
with International Space Agencies. He also engages with
Australian industry, start-ups, domestic agencies, research
institutions and state and territory governments to help grow
the Australian space sector.
Karl has over 25 years of experience in innovation, venture
investment, research, development and commercialisation of
technology. Karl was Deputy Director for CSIRO Energy,
responsible for the Business Unit strategy, science investment
and operations. He delivered science impact, leadership and
direction to the Business Unit. This included the Hydrogen
Future Science Platform to create a new energy security and
export opportunity for Australia.
S. Somanath
Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC), Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Thiruvananthapuram, India
Sri.S. Somanath took over as the Director of Vikram Sarabhai
Space Centre (VSSC) in January 2018. He was the Director of
Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) since July 2015. Till
June 2015, he was the Associate Director (Projects) of Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and also the Project Director of
GSLV Mk-III Launch vehicle. Under his leadership as the
Project Director, the first Experimental flight of LVM3-X/CARE
mission was successfully accomplished on 18th December, 2014.
He joined ISRO in 1985 and was a team leader for Integration
of PSLV during its early development phase and during the
first flight of PSLV and the successful second flight PSLV-D2.
As Project Manager he handled areas of mechanisms,
pyro-technique systems and satellite launch service
management. He conceived and executed the first time launches
of commercial mini satellites and developed small satellite
mounting and separation systems which have successfully
deployed many commercial satellites.
He joined GSLV MkIII Project during 2003 and was the Deputy
Project Director responsible for Ooverall design of the
vehicle, Mission design, Structural design and Integration. He
has been the Deputy Director of the ‘Structures’ Entity in
VSSC and also the Deputy Director of ‘Propulsion and Space
Ordinance Entity’ in VSSC till November, 2014. Shri Somanath
is an expert in the area of system engineering of Launch
vehicles. He made contributions in PSLV and GSLV MkIII in
their overall architecture, propulsion systems, structural and
structural dynamics, separation systems, vehicle integration
and integration procedures development.
As Director, LPSC he led the team to successfully complete the
development of 20 ton thrust C25 cryogenic engine and stage
and realised the flight stage for the successful GSLV
Mk-III-D1 mission. Impetus given for development of 200 ton
Semicryo engine for future Launch vehicles, qualification of
throttleable engines for Vikram lander of Chanradrayaan-2 and
successful fight test of electric propulsion in GSAT-9 and
realisation of 300 mN high thrust electric propulsion
thrusters are his major achievements in LPSC.
As Director, VSSC he mentored the team to develop the Small
Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) with innovations for cost
reduction and production easiness, Human rated Launch Vehicle
version of GSLV MkIII, Crew Escape System (CES) and Test
Vehicle for Gaganyaan. Some of the significant tests
accomplished are the Pad Abort Test (PAT-01) for Gaganyaan,
the successful flight test of ATVP with TMA release. The
successful first operational mission GSLV MkIII-M1 for
Chandrayaan-2 with payload enhancement was a significant
event. Nine operational missions of PSLV-C40 to C48 (50th PSLV
Mission) and GSLV-F09 were successful in this time frame.
Critical development tests of RLV-LEX mission have been
completed. He has initiated various new R&D developments as
well as facility upgradation initiatives in VSSC which include
2 petaflop computation facility, Trisonic wind tunnel, pyro
production augmentation facilities, industry operated
production hubs for critical systems in many areas.
Shri Somanath took his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from
TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala University with a
Second Rank and Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore with specialization in
Structures, Dynamics and Control with Gold Medal.
He received the ‘Merit Award’, ‘Performance Excellence award’
and Outstanding Achievement award” from ISRO and a ‘Team
excellence award’ for GSLV Mk-III development. He received,
the “Janasewa Award 2018” instituted by Sivaparvathy Cultural
Society, “Marthoma Educational Technical Training & Research
Centre Award-2018” instituted by Marthoma college of Science &
Technology, “Lifetime achievement Award instituted by TKM
College Trust, Kollam and “Platinum Jubilee Award” from
Aerospace Department of IISc Bangalore. He is the recipient of
the ‘Space Gold Medal’ from Astronautical Society of India. He
is the recipient of the “National Aeronautics Prize” by The
Aeronautical Society of India for the year 2018. He was
awarded Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa by Sathyabama
Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai.
He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering
(INAE), Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI),
Astronautical Society of India (ASI) and a Member of
International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). He is the Vice
President of International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in
charge of the technical activities. Shri Somanath has widely
travelled as delegate and representative of India in UN-COPOUS
at Vienna, many space agencies and establishments across the
world and International Astronautical Federation (IAF)’s
International Programs in various countries.
He has published papers in journals & seminars in the area of
structural dynamics and control, dynamic analysis of
separation mechanisms, vibration & acoustic testing, launch
vehicle design and launch services management.
Chi Wang
National Space Science Center (NSSC), Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
Chi Wang is a Professor and the Director General of the
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
also the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Space
Weather. He graduated from the University of Science and
Technology of China, and got his Ph.D. degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His research
interesting focuses on the large-scale solar wind structures
in the heliosphere and the interaction of the solar wind with
the magnetosphere. He worked on the plasma experiments on
Voyager 2 and developed a multi-fluid solar wind model.
Starting from 2002, he led the effort to establish the first
state key laboratory of space weather in China, and to develop
of a global MHD model of the interaction of the solar wind
with the magnetosphere. So far, he has published more than 200
peer-reviewed papers including Nature, JGR etc. He was the PI
of the Chinese Meridian Project, which is the ground-based
space environment monitoring chain in China. He currently is
the Co-PI of the solar wind – magnetosphere – ionosphere link
explorer (SMILE) and the deputy chief engineer of the Chinese
Lunar Exploration CE-4 mission. Dr. Wang received National
Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Chinese National
Science Foundation in 2003, 9th National Science and
Technology Award for Youth of China in 2006. He was elected as
an IAA Corresponding Member in basic science in 2017.
Thomas Zurbuchen
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
Washington, DC, USA
Scientific discovery is one of humanity’s most important
endeavors. Using the tools of exploration, we can better
understand our world and our universe and ultimately learn
more about ourselves. All discovery is interconnected, and no
important question stands alone. As NASA’s Associate
Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Thomas
Zurbuchen is tasked with helping us answer some of humanity’s
biggest questions: Where did we come from? Are we alone? How
does the universe work? Dr. Zurbuchen is well versed in the
practice of asking difficult questions that help us seek
interconnected answers leading to real world impacts. He is
keenly interested in innovation and how leadership is
developed and how the pursuit of excellence can help change
the world.
Growing up in Switzerland, Dr. Zurbuchen was a keen observer
of the natural world from an early age. His curiosity led him
to pursue degrees in physics, and he has served on and led
innovative scientific teams that have helped enlarge our
perspective on the solar system and the universe. Previous
points of focus have been the planet Mercury and our Sun. He
was also a professor of space science and aerospace
engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He was
the founding director of UM’s Center for Entrepreneurship at
the College of Engineering and developed and ran several
campus wide innovation initiatives, one of which led to the
top-ranked undergraduate entrepreneurship program nationally.
On a daily basis, Zurbuchen works to ensure that NASA’s
science missions build partnerships across disciplines and
with industry and other nations to generate new questions and
help advance the frontiers of knowledge and exploration. He
brings a wealth of scientific research, engineering experience
and hands-on knowledge to NASA’s world-class team of
scientists and engineers. Zurbuchen sets the NASA Science
strategy and inspires the teams to carry it out.
During his career, Zurbuchen has authored or co-authored more
than 200 articles in peer reviewed journals in solar and
heliospheric phenomena. He earned his doctorate and Master of
Science degrees in physics from the University of Bern in
Switzerland. His honors include multiple NASA ground
achievement awards, induction as a member of the International
Academy of Astronautics, a NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal,
and the 2018 Heinrich-Greinacher prize, the leading
science-related recognition from the University of Bern.
Zurbuchen engages people worldwide with NASA’s work and the
inspiration of science.