Human spaceflight and Exploration Science Advisory Committee (HESAC)
The Human spaceflight and Exploration Science Advisory Committee (HESAC) is the senior advisory body to the Directors of Human and Robotic Exploration (D/HRE) and Science (D/SCI), acting as the Director General’s representatives, on all matters concerning scientific exploitation of human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration programmes. It is the main interpreter of the views and needs of the European scientific community as regards access to space experimentation and data exploitation in the human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration programmes.
Members
| Prof Harald Hiesinger (Chair) | University of Münster, Münster, Germany |
| Prof Sarah Baatout | Belgian Nuclear Research Center, Belgium |
| PhD Maria-Cristina De Sanctis | National Institute of Astrophysics, Italy |
| Prof Peter zu Eulenburg | University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany |
| Prof Nandu Goswami | Medical University of Graz, Austria |
| Dr Anne Land-Zandstra | Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| Prof Gro Mjeldheim Sandal | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Prof Clive R. Neal | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Prof Caroline Smith | The Natural History Museum, London, UK |
| PhD Philip Tuckey | Observatoire de Paris, France |
| A.Prof Maria Rosaria Vetrano | University of Leuven, Belgium |
Ex officio members
| Chair Space Science Advisory Committee | Dr. Martin Hewitson, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Waves, Hannover, Germany |
| Chair Life Sciences Working Group | Prof. Damian Bailey, University of South Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom |
| Chair Physical Sciences Working Group | Dr M. Teresa Perez Prado, MDEA Materials Institute, Spain |
| Chair Solar System Exploration Working Group | Dr. Stephan Ulamec, German Aerospace Centre, LCC/MUSC, Cologne, Germany |
Invited Ex officio as observers
| Chair Human spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Programme Board | Marianne Vinje Tantillo, Norwegian Space Agency, Oslo, Norway |
| Chair European Space Sciences Committee | Prof. Chris Rapley, University College London, United Kingdom |
