ATHENA Team Membership - Athena
NEW ATHENA SCIENCE REDEFINITION team Members
ESA has appointed in November 2022 a Science Re-definition Team that will support the definition, where necessary, of revised science objectives for NewAthena. The Science Re-definition Team will be asked to support the study activities in the necessary trade-offs among performance specifications, etc., with the goal of defining an affordable X-ray mission that will still afford flagship science. The Science Re-definition Team will be asked to support the Agency in the feasibility studies needed to define the NewAthena concept. It is currently envisaged to achieve the definition of the NewAthena concept in approximately 18 months. The Science Re-definition Team will be asked to produce, at the end of the study, a final report advising the Director of Science about the scientific value of the NewAthena concept. The Team may also be asked to produce interim reports to support the ongoing work of the agency.
The NewAthena Science Re-definition Team is independent of the instrument consortia that are baselined to supply instruments to the NewAthena mission (X-IFU and WFI). Its members are:
James Aird | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
Francisco Carrera | CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria | Spain |
Elisa Costantini | SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research | The Netherlands |
Lia Corrales | University of Michigan | USA (Deputy NASA representative) |
Mike Cruise (co-Chair) | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
Thomas Dauser | University Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
Dominique Eckert | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
Fabio Gastaldello | INAF | Italy |
Matteo Guainazzi (co-Chair) | European Space Agency | ESA |
Hironori Matsumoto | University of Osaka | Japan (JAXA representative) |
Rachel Osten | STScI | USA (NASA representative) |
Pierre Olivier Petrucci | Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysqiue de Grenoble | France |
Delphine Porquet | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille | France |
Gabriel Pratt | CEA Saclay - IRFU | France |
Nanda Rea | Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) | Spain |
Thomas Reiprich | University of Bonn | Germany |
Aurora Simionescu | SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research | The Netherlands |
Daniele Spiga | INAF | Italy |
Eleonora Troja | University of Rome Tor Vergata | Italy |