Committee
The Team operating the Central Europe Hub in 2020
Hub Chair
Dr. Melinda Dósa
Space physicist
Postdoc at Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
Expertise: solar wind propagation, modelling, Mercury exosphere and its interaction with the solar wind, inner heliospheric space weather. Co-I of SERENA/PICAM instrument on BepiColombo
Vice Chairs
Dr. Zuzana Kanuchova
Astronomer
Vice-head of Department of Interplanetary matter, Astronomical Institute of SAS, Slovakia
Expertise: space weathering, astrochemistry
Dr. Petr Broz
Planetary geologist, volcanologist
Research fellow at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Science
Expertise: Planetary geology, volcanism, sedimentary volcanism and cryovolcanism, environmetal effects on geological processes
Dr. Ewa Szuszkiewicz
Astrophysicist
Head of the Astronomy and Astropysics Group at the University of Szczecin, Poland
Expertise: origin and evolution of planetary systems, planet formation, dynamics of disks and planets, extrasolar planets, planetary habitability
Manuel Scherf
PhD student
Industry Officers
Dr. Anna Szkulmowska
Physicist
CEO in AM2M R&D company, Broker of Innovation, Institute of Physics, NCU, Chair of the NSS Photonics (Ministry of Entrentrepreneurship and Technology)
Pál Gábor Vizi
Electrical engineer
Development engineer at the Department of Space Technology, Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Expertise: Cassini, Rosetta and Juice missions as System Engineer
Policy Officers
Dr. Ákos Kereszturi
Research Cent. for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Jan Soucek
CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Outreach Officers
MSc. Julie Nekola Nováková
Evolutionary biologist, outreach professional, writer
PhD candidate at the Faculty of Science, Charles University
Expertise: evolutionary biology and astrobiology, science outreach and education
Jan Lukačevič
PhD student
Charles University
Diversity Officers
Anna Losiak
University of Exeter