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, Germany |
Prof. Sarah Baatout | Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Belgium |
Prof. Roberto Cerbino | University of Vienna, Austria |
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. Victor Parro | Centro de Astrobiologia, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain |
PhD Maria-Cristina De Sanctis | National Institute of Astrophysics, Italy |
Prof. Caroline Smith | The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom |
PhD Philip Tuckey | Observatoire de Paris, France |
Ex officio members
Chair Space Science Advisory Committee | Prof. Olivier Grasset, Nantes University, France |
Chair Life Sciences Working Group | Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden |
Chair Physical Sciences Working Group | Dr. Ruth Bamford, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, United Kingdom |
Chair Solar System Exploration Working Group | PhD Ana-Catalina Plesa, DLR, Germany |
Invited Ex officio as observers
Chair Human spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Programme Board | Raffaele Mugnuolo, Italian Space Agency, ASI |
Chair European Space Sciences Committee | Prof. Chris Rapley, University College London, United Kingdom |