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SUMMER SCHOOL TUTORS 2014

SPACE MISSIONS FOR GEOPHYSICS OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS

TUTOR TEAM 2014

Head Tutor: Peter Falkner, ESA

Engineering Tutors:

• Günter Kargl, Space Research Institute Graz

• Jaan Praks, University of Aalto

• Manuela Unterberger, Technical University Graz

• Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo, ESA

Science Tutors:

• Oliver Baur, Space Research Institute, Graz

• Roger Haagmans, ESA

• Ruth Ziethe, University of Berne

• Richard Ghail, Imperial College London

Roving Tutors:

• Leah-Nani S. Alconcel, Imperial College London, Science

• Imke de Pater, Netherlands, Science

• Hans Sünkel, Technical University Graz, Science

• Bert Vermeersen, TU Delft, Science

• Michael Fehringer, ESA, Engineering,

• Rune Floberghagen, ESA, Engineering

• Markus Hallmann, DLR, Engineering

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SHARE OF WORK OF TUTORS

Head Tutor: Peter Falkner

Team Orange: (E) Günter Kargl, SRI Graz

(S) Roger Haagmans, ESA

Team Blue: (E) Jaan Praks, Univ. Aalto

(S) Ruth Ziethe, Univ. Bern

Team Green: (E) Manuela Unterberger, TU Graz

(S) Richard Ghail, Imperial College London

Team Red: (E) Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo, ESA

(S) Oliver Baur, SRI Graz

Roving Tutors:

• Leah-Nani S. Alconcel, Imperial College London, Science

• Imke de Pater, Netherlands, Science

• Hans Sünkel, Technical University Graz, Science

• Bert Vermeersen, TU Delft, Science

• Michael Fehringer, ESA, Engineering

• Rune Floberghagen, ESA, Engineering

• Markus Hallmann, DLR, Engineering


PETER FALKNER - HEAD TUTOR

European Space Agency

• Head of Advanced Payload & Mission Concepts Office,

Future Missions Preparation Office,

Science and Robotic Exploration

• Conducted many space mission studies in the field of planetary

exploration, solar system missions and Mars robotic exploration

• Technology preparation & development for future missions

• Instrument development for planetary missions

CO-I Huygens HASI/PWA, Stereo, Cluster-II, Rosetta,…

• Space Systems Engineering (Eng., TU-Delft),

Electrical Engineering (Eng., TU-Graz),

Space Instrumentation (Dr. Techn., TU-Graz)

• Summer School Head Tutor for several years

• 17 years at ESA

6 years at Austrian Academy of Sciences (IWF)


ROGER HAAGMANS – TEAM ORANGE

• Head, Earth Surfaces and Interior

Section, Earth Observation

Programmes Directorate

• Senior Advisor (potential fields), ESA

• Interests: gravity and magnetic fields,

surface deformation and links to solid

earth science

• Mission scientist GOCE and Swarm

• Prior to ESA: associate professor in

geodesy and surveying, NLH, Norway

and assistent professor in geodesy, TU

Delft, NL

• 13 years at ESA


GÜNTER KARGL – TEAM ORANGE

• Comets • In-situ instrumentation • Physical properties of surface

materials • Laboratory experiments


RUTH ZIETHE – TEAM BLUE

• Studied interior of terrestrial planets at WWU Münster w/

T. Spohn

Diploma: 3D-convection in the Moon and the influence

on topography and geoid

PhD: Sinking Iron Diapirs: A Model for Planetary Core

formation

• Postdoctoral research: planet formation and early

thermal evolution of terrestrial planets, small bodies, and

icy moons

• Internal fellowship at ESA/ESTEC with focus on thermal

evolution of planet Mercury in the scope of the Bepi

Colombo Mission

• Project manager for CaSSIS at University of Bern:

colour and stereo imager on-board the 2016 ExoMars

Trace Gas Orbiter


JAAN PRAKS – TEAM BLUE

• Space technology teacher in Aalto

University, Finland

• Coordinator of Aalto-1 and Aalto-2

CubeSat projects

• Special interests: small satellites,

CubeSat, remote sensing, radar remote

sensing, spectral imaging

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RICHARD GHAIL – TEAM GREEN


Lecturer in Planetary and Engineering Geology

Imperial College London

• Lead on the proposed EnVision radar mission to Venus

• Research interests include planetary tectonics, particularly

intraplate processes, structural geology and engineering

geomorphology

• Expertise in radar remote sensing, especially the application

of interferometric SAR to the detection of millimetric fault

displacements

• Application of geological modelling to ground engineering to

understand the influence of large scale processes at the

small scale

MANUELA UNTERBERGER – TEAM GREEN


Graz University of Technology (TUGraz), Austria

• Research Engineer @ TUGraz

• Systems Engineer of BRITE-Austria / TUGSAT-1

• Interests:

• Systems engineering

• Small satellites and CubeSats

• Assembly, integration and testing

• Orbital dynamics

• Telecommunications

• Education: • PhD in Electrical Engineering (Information and

Communications Engineering) (on-going)

• Master’s degree in Telematics (Telecommunications)

OLIVER BAUR – TEAM RED


Space Research Institute (IWF), Austria

• Ph.D. in Geodesy, 2007, from Stuttgart

University, Germany

• Group leader, terrestrial and planetary

gravity field research, IWF

• Data analysis from space geodesy

(GOCE, GRACE, GRAIL, SLR,…)

• Special interests: time-variable gravity,

dynamic orbit determination, genetic

algorithms, high performance computing

• Lecturer at Graz University of

Technology

ALEJANDRO CARDESÍN MOINELO – TEAM RED

European Space and Astronomy Centre, ESAC, Madrid

• Mars Express Science Ground Segment Manager

• ExoMars 2016 Science Operations Systems Engineer

• Experience in most ESA planetary missions: • ExoMars, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta, …

• Interests: • Science Operations

• Data Handling & Calibration

• Remote Sensing

• Imaging Spectrometers

• Education: • PhD in Space Science and Technology, Univ. Padova, Italy

• Masters Degree in Telecomunications, Univ. Vigo, Spain


LEAH-NANI S. ALCONCEL

Imperial College London, UK

Hats I wear on a daily basis:

• Cassini MAG Operations Engineer

• Cluster FGM Archive Engineer

• JUICE J-MAG PA Manager

Science and engineering experience:

• Space science operations

• Data processing, calibration and archiving

• Space magnetometers/in-situ instrumentation

• Atmospheric and combustion chemistry

• High-vacuum and high-energy laser systems

Education:

• MS and PhD in Chemical Physics, UC San Diego

• BSc in Chemistry, University of Southern California


MICHAEL FEHRINGER


• Project Manager of the Earth

Explorer 7 mission Biomass,

Directorate of Earth Observation

Programmes, ESA

• Previous experience • GOCE system manager, ESA

• Cluster Project Scientist, ESA

• Building instrumentation for science

missions (Cluster, Rosetta), Austrian

Research Centre Seibersdorf

• ESA research fellow

• PhD in physics

• Summer school focus • What does it need for the ESA

project team together with the

science community to succeed

RUNE FLOBERGHAGEN


• GOCE and Swarm Mission

Manager, Directorate of Earth

Observation Programmes, ESA

• PhD (2001) in lunar gravimetry;

MSc in aerospace engineering

• Research interests: geodesy &

geomagnetism and their role in

earth system science; solid earth

physics, geospace research,

planetary science

• Involved in the definition of the

(future of) ESA’s earth science

programme

MARKUS HALLMANN

• Mission Analyst, DLR

• AsteroidFinder,

VEX, MEX,

Herschel-Planck


IMKE DE PATER

• Ph.D. in Astronomy, Oct. 1, 1980 from Leiden

University

• Thesis Title: Observations and models of the

decimetric radio emission from Jupiter

• Professor and Chair of Department of

Astronomy, Berkeley., CA

• 0 FTE Professor at TU Delft, NL; Research

Professor SRON, NL

• Planetary atmospheres; Jupiter's synchrotron

radiation; Planetary rings

• Satellites as Io, Titan; some asteroid and comet

work, and solar wind

• Observations at visible, IR, radio wavelengths;

+ modeling of data


HANS SÜNKEL


Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)

Prof. for Theoretical and Satellite Geodesy at

TU Graz since 1983

Dir., Space Research Institute, Austrian

Academy of Sciences (2001 –2004)

Rector of TU Graz (2003 – 2011)

Project leader of ESA feasibility studies for the

GOCE mission (1989 – 2003)

Mathematical, numerical and statistical

methods in geodesy

Satellite-based Earth gravity field determination

BERT VERMEERSEN

• Solid Planets Geophysics

• Icy Moons

• Space Geodesy


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