Science Team

Board Members

Science Team

The core science team (CST) of the CHEOPS mission is composed of members of all consortium countries plus members elected by ESA. In addition, the Science Team is composed of a number of elected Associates who have been selected following applications to a dedicated open call to the Community, and the ex-officio members. The current composition of the CST is given in the following table:

Collaborators

Each Science Team member can nominate a collaborator to work on the CHEOPS data. The full list of collaborators is given in the following table:

Previous Team Members

People come and go – there are many team members who helped make CHEOPS a success, but who no longer work at the institute that is part of the CHEOPS consortium or whose direct involvement with CHEOPS has ended. We are very grateful for their contribution! The following people have been involved in the mission:

Scientists and Engineers involved in the early Mission

Besides the formal science team, there is a large number of scientists and technical staff involved to build and prepare the mission. In the following we give a list of the people involved. Note however, that given the huge team size involved for such an endeavour, this list cannot be complete.

Austria: Johannes Hasiba (IWF), Karl Hofmann (IWF), Harald Ottacher (IWF), Franz Kerschbaum (UVIE), Gunter Laky (IWF), Armin Luntzer (UVIE), Marko Mecina (UVIE), Sonja Neukirchner (IWF), Roland Ottensamer (UVIE), Christian Reimers (UVIE), Michael Steinberger (IWF)

Belgium: Olivier Absil (ULg), Frank Daerden (BIRA), Christian Muller (BUSOC), Emmanuël Jehin (ULg), Anne Lemaître (FUNDP), Anne-Sophie Libert (FUNDP), Etienne Renotte (previously at CSL), Jean-Yves Plesseria (CSL), Pierre Magain (ULg), Michaël Gillon (ULiege), Jean Surdej (ULg)

ESA: Joel Asquier (ESTEC), Gilles Beaufils (ESTEC), Carlos Corral Van Damme (ESTEC), Kate Isaac (ESTEC), Francesco Ratti (ESTEC), Jan Rautakoski (ESTEC), Richard Southworth (ESOC), Marcel Verhoef (ESTEC), Peter Verhoeve (ESTEC)

France: Jean-Charles Meunier (LAM), Pascal Guterman (LAM-INSU), Sergio Hoyer (LAM)

Germany: Rainer Berlin (DLR), Maximilian Buder (DLR), Ute Grote (DLR), Mathias Lieder (DLR), Harald Michaelis (DLR), Emanuel Kopp (DLR), Gisbert Peter (DLR), Rolf Struikmans (DLR), Mathias Tschentscher (DLR), Bernd Ulmer (DLR/IBU), Holger Venus (DLR), Ingo Walter (DLR), Karsten Westerdorff (DLR), David Wolter (DLR), Natalie Russ (DLR)

Hungary: Tamas Barczy (ADM), Gyula Horvath (C3S), Peter Koczak (ADM), Zsolt Kovacs (ADM), Peter Szirovicza (ADM), Janos Szoke (ADM)

Italy: Luigi Bedin (INAF-OAPD), Maria Bergomi (INAF-OAPD), Federico Biondi (INAF-OAPD), Aldo Bonomo (INAF-OAT), Giovanni Bruno (INAF-OACT), Marco Dima (INAF-OAPD), Jacopo Farinato (INAF-OAPD), Davide Greggio (INAF-OAPD), Antonino F. Lanza (INAF-OACT), Demetrio Magrin (INAF-OAPD), Luca Malavolta (UPD), Luca Marafatto (INAF-OAPD), Francesco Marzari (UNIPD), Giuseppina Micela (INAF-OAPA), Emilio Molinari (INAF-TNG), Matteo Munari (UPD), Sergio Ortolani (UPD), Elena Piccoli (UPD), Mario Salatti (ASI), Vikash Singh (INAF-OACT), Salvatore Scuderi (INAF-OACT), Daniela Sicilia (UPD), Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF-OATO), Salvatore Spinella (INAF-OACT), Francesco Verrecchia (ASI-SSDC), Valentina Viotto (INAF-OAPD)

Portugal: Nuno Almeida (DEIM), Carlos Antonio (DEIM), Nuno Avila (DEIM), Marcos Bento (DEIM), Nuno Catarino (DEIM), Pedro Figueira (CAUP), Marco Montalto (CAUP)

Sweden: Hans-Gustav Florén (OSO), René Liseau (Chalmers Univ.)

Spain: Mariona Badenas (ICE, CSIC & IEEC), Juan Carlos Morales (ICE, CSIC & IEEC), Manuel Perger (ICE, CSIC & IEEC), Álvaro García-Piquer (ICE, CSIC & IEEC), Josep Colomé (ICE, CSIC & IEEC), Enrique Herrero (ICE, CSIC & IEEC), Lisa Nortmann (IAC), Pilar Montañes Rodriguez (IAC), María Morales-Calderón (CAB), Sebastià Barceló (CAB)

Switzerland: Mathias Beck (UGE), Thomas Beck (UBE), Anja Bekkelien (UGE), Vincent Bourrier (UGE), Martin-Diego Busch (UBE), Giordano Bruno (UBE), Virginie Cessa (UBE), Bruno Chazelas (UGE), Adrien Deline (UGE), David Futyan (UGE), Volker Gass (SSC-EPFL), Anton Ivanov (SSC-EPFL), Annette Jäckel (UBE), Eduardo Hernandez Leon (UBE), Luca Malvasio (UBE), Severin Oeschger (UBE), Daniele Piazza (UBE), Martin Rieder (UBE), Reiner Rohlfs (UGE), Stefano Rossi (SSC-EPFL), Michaël Sordet (UGE), Kamen O. Todorov (ETHZ), Udo Wehmeier (UBE), Francois Wildi (UGE)

United Kingdom: Rémon Annes (UCA), Dave Garton (ISIC), Eduardo Gonzales-Solares (UCA), Simon Hodgkin (UCA), Mike Irwin (UCA), Jim Lewis (UCA), Nicholas Walton (UCA), Richard West (UWW), Guy Rixon (UCA)