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Ramses Science Team
The Ramses Science Team includes the ESA Project Scientist and the mission PIs, who, together with the Advisory Board, compose the Science Management Board (SMB). It also includes the Investigation Team, which is composed of the Mission PIs, the Advisory Board, the Groups Chairs and some instrument representatives. There are also Instrument PIs who are responsible for decisions about delivery and safe operation of their instruments, and a Science Operation Working Group with a Chair appointed by ESA for the operational aspects of the mission. And finally, It includes all Hera Groups members.
Science Management Board
SCIENCE MANAGEMENT BOARD
Ramses Investigation Team
RAMSES INVESTIGATION TEAM
Mission Principal investigators
Dr. Monica Lazzarin PI Univ. Padova, Italy
Dr. Patrick Michel ESA Project Scientist ESA, CNRS, Lagrange (UniCA, OCA), France
Management Board Members
Pr. Simon F. Green The Open University, United Kingdom
Pr. Paolo Tortora Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Vincent DLR, Germany
Dr. Stephan Ulamec DLR, Germany
Dr. Paul Abell NASA, USA
Pr. Seiji Sugita The University of Tokyo, Japan
Working group chairs
Dr. Naomi Murdoch ISAE-Supaero, France
Dr. Fabio Ferrari Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr. Petr Pravec Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic
Dr. Colin Snodgrass Univ. of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dr. Eri Tatsumi Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Pr. Adriano Campo Bagatin Univ. Alicante, Spain
Pr. Sébastien Charnoz IPGP, France
Dr. Alessandro Rossi INAF-OAA, Italy
Dr. Julia de Leon Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Dr. Alain Herique IPAG/UGA, France
Dr. Ozgur Karatekin ROB, Belgium
Dr. Martin Jutzi Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
instrument LEADS
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Vincent DLR, Germany
Dr. Ernesto Palomba INAF, Italy
Dr. Antoine Pommerol Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Marco Zannoni Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Norbert Krupp Max Planck Institute, Germany
Pr. Tatsuaki Okada ISAS/JAXA, Japan
Dr. Alain Herique IPAG/UGA, France
Dr. Fabrizio Dirri INAF, Rome, Italy
Dr. Fabio Ferrari Polimi, Italy
Dr. Naomi Murdoch ISAE-Supaero, France
Dr. Ozgur Karatekin ROB, Belgium
Dr. Hans Ulrich Auster Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Honorary Mission Advisor
HONORARY MISSION ADVISOR
Dr. Sir Brian H. May
Dr. Sir Brian May (Queen guitarist and astrophysicist) is RAMSES Honorary Mission Advisor. In addition to supporting and highly contributing to mission related public outreach activities, he is also offering a great contribution to the science activities and preparation of the mission. His participation is also to provide advice for the imaging strategy of RAMSES, so that stereoscopic pairs can be produced from images taken at different and well chosen phases, allowing a vision of the real asteroid in 3D. Such a vision does not only allow us to appreciate the beauty of these small worlds, but also to discover and study their incredible geological complexity. Stereoscopic pairs by Dr. May and his collaborator Claudia Manzoni have demonstrated their extraordinary power and usefulness in past missions, such as OSIRIS-REx (NASA) and Hayabusa2 (JAXA).
Dr. May is already co-author of a two peer-reviewed articles by RAMSES team members, which were reported in several medias and ESA press releases:
_ Michel, P., Ballouz, R.-L., Barnouin, O.S., Jutzi, M., Walsh, K.J., May, B.H., Manzoni, C., Richardson, D.C., Schwartz, S.R., Sugita, S., Watanabe, S., Miyamoto, H., Hirabayashi, M., Bottke, W.F., Connolly Jr., H.C., Yoshikawa, M., Lauretta, D.S. 2020. Collisional formation of top-shaped asteroids and implications for the origins of Ryugu and Bennu. Nature Communications 11, 2665, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16433-z
ESA Press Release (click here)
_ Zhang, Y., Michel, P., Richardson, D.C., Barnouin, O.S., Agrusa, H.F., Tsiganis, K., Manzoni, C., May, B.H. 2021. Creep stability of the DART/Hera mission target 65803 Didymos: II. The role of cohesion. Icarus 362, 114433, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114433
JAXA DESTINY+
JAXA DESTINY+ MISSION REPRESENTATIVE
Dr. Tomoko Arai (PI) Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
NASA APEX
NASA APEX MISSION REPRESENTATIVES
Dr. Daniella Mendoza DellaGiustina (PI) University of Arizona, USA
Dr. Anjani Polit (Deputy PI) University of Nevada, USA
Dr. Michael Nolan (Deputy PI) University of Arizona, USA