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.
Current HESAC membership:
- Dr. Caroline Smith, Natural History Museum, UK – Planetary Sciences [Chair]
- Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Istitutio Nazionale di Astrofisica, IT – Planetary Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Anne Land-Zandstra, Leiden University, NL – Science Communication and Policy
- Prof. Dr. Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame, USA – Planetary Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Gro Mjeldheim Sandal, University of Bergen, NO – Human Factors and Psychology
- Prof. Dr. Philip Tuckey, Observatoire de Paris, FR – Physical Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Peter zu Eulenburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, DE – Space Life Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Roberto Cerbino, University of Vienna, AT – Physical Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Victor Parro, Centro de Astrobiologia, ES – Space Life Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Ann Carine Vandaele, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, BE – Planetary Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Petra Rettberg, retired DLR – DE- Space Life Sciences
- Dr. Stas Barabash, Swedish Institute of Physics – SE – Space Physics
- Prof. Dr. Gianni Ciofani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IT – Space Technology and Engineering
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Choukér, University Hospital Munich, DE – Space Life Sciences