Scientific & Technical Advisory Board

Georgios Balasis

Dr Georgios Balasis

Dr Georgios Balasis is a Research Director in Space Physics at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece.

Dr. Balasis is President of IAASARS Scientific Council and former IAASARS Deputy Director. For the last 10 years he has led the Spaceborne and Ground-Based Magnetometry research activities, services and operations at NOA. The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) selected him to lead the International Team “Complex Systems Perspectives Pertaining to the Research of the Near-Earth Electromagnetic Environment” [2019-2022]. From 2002 to 2006 he was the consultant for global electromagnetic induction in the CHAMP satellite team at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. In 2006, he returned to Greece as an Assistant Researcher at NOA where he has been assigned for the management, establishment, installation, and operation of the HellENIc GeoMagnetic Array (ENIGMA) and for its link to the SuperMAG worldwide collaboration of ground-based magnetometers. Dr. Balasis is also involved in magnetic satellite missions and is a member of the ESA Swarm DISC (Data, Innovation, and Science Cluster) Advisory Board and a member of the Validation Team and Data Quality Working Group of ESA Swarm mission. Dr. Balasis is a Topical Editor of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Annales Geophysicae, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Complex Systems, Editor of Atmosphere, Editor of Geosciences and Editor of Heritage.
Carla Braitenberg

Carla Braitenberg

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Isabelle Panet

Isabelle Panet

Isabelle Panet studied at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1997 to 2000, and then joined the Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN).

She specialised in solid Earth geophysics and geodesy, and obtained her doctorate in 2005 from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, followed by a post-doctorate at the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan from 2006 to 2008. She then worked as a researcher at the Geodesy Research Laboratory of IGN, and in the Geodesy team at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (UMR co-supervised by IGN). Her work focuses on the use of satellite gravity observations to detect the gravitational signatures of mass redistribution within the Earth’s interior and characterize their sources, which remain mostly beyond the reach of the other means of geophysical observation. This way, she brings new constraints on dynamical processes at different timescales in the different layers of the Earth, those associated with the seismic cycle in the lithosphere and underlying upper mantle, as well as deeper ones associated with the mantle convection.
Christophe Salomon

Christophe Salomon

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Harald Schuh

Harald Schuh

Harald Schuh (*1956) is Director of Department “Geodesy” at GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, and professor for “Satellite Geodesy” at TU Berlin.

He is Past President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and Chairman of the German Geodetic Committee (DGK). He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Martino Travagnin

Martino Travagnin

Martino Travagnin obtained a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and a PhD in Physics in 1995.

He worked as a researcher in several universities and industries, and since 2015 is with the European Commission Joint Research Centre. His experience covers optical communications systems, semiconductor devices for information processing, optoelectronic sensors, and in-field applications of quantum technologies.
Pieter Visser

Pieter Visser

Pieter Visser is head of the Department of Space Engineering and chair holder Astrodynamics and Space missions at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

His primary fields of expertise are precise orbit determination of satellites and space geodesy. After receiving his PhD degree in 1992 in Delft, he spent one year as exchange visitor at the Center for Space Research of the University of Texas at Austin. He then returned to his Alma Mater. Over the years he has been involved in several earth observation missions aiming at observing sea level change, melting ice caps, gravity and magnetic fields. He has held many mission and science advisory positions for the European Space Agency (ESA), and several positions for the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). He chaired the COSPAR Panel on Satellite Dynamics from 2004 to 2012. He is Fellow of the IAG and full member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).
Lisa Woerrner

Lisa Woerrner

Lisa Woerrner studied Physics in Munich, where she also finished her PhD in Plasma Physics. After that she ventured into Quantum Mechanics.

Her first station was Vienna to study high mass interferometry followed by frequency references in Bremen. She then took over the project management for BECCAL, the Bose Einstein Condensate Cold Atom Laboratory, currently being prepared for deployment on the ISS. Currently she shares the responsibilities of leading the DLR institute for satellite geodesy and inertial sensing in Hannover.