People - Science Faculty
Faculty members
The faculty extends over the two main establishments,
and three smaller stations at
- Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Maryland, USA)
- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), co-located with ESAC
| Name | Main Research Topics | Project(s) | Station | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Miriam Aberasturi | ESAC | ||
| Julia Alfonso-Garzón | Operation and archive exploitation for Integral/OMC; variable object light curves | CAB | ||
| Alba Aller Egea | CAB | |||
| Will Alston |
X-ray astronomy; time series analysis; accretion and feedback physics; strong gravity; machine learning
|
Research Fellow | ESAC | |
| Bruno Altieri | Galaxy clusters; deep infrared surveys; gravitational lensing | Euclid | ESAC | |
| Nicolas Altobelli | Saturn rings; infrared spectroscopy; interstellar dust; interplanetary dust; asteroids/comets; dust dynamics | JUICE, Cassini, Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Nuria Alvarez | AGN; blazars; x-ray astronomy | Research Fellow (XMM-Newton) | ESAC | |
| Catarina Alves de Oliveira | Brown dwarf formation; origin of the initial mass function (IMF); filamentary structure in molecular clouds | JWST, SMILE | ESAC | |
| Michele Armano | Gravitational waves; effective field theory and General Relativity; black hole physics; geodesy; data analysis for experimental gravity physics; applications to hydrocarbon physics and engineering |
Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) |
ESTEC | |
| Christophe Arviset | Division Head SCI-SA | ESAC | ||
| B | Deborah Baines | Pre-main sequence stars (Herbig Ae/Be; T Tauri); Be stars; binaries; proto-planetary discs; spectro-astrometry; virtual observatory (VO) | Science archives; VO | ESAC |
| Lucia Ballo | XMM-Newton | ESAC | ||
| Sebastià Barceló Forteza | Asteroseismology; variable stars, oscillations (including pulsations); solar-type stars | CAB | ||
| David Barrado y Navascués | Brown dwarfs; low-mass stars | CAB | ||
| Guillaume Belanger | Galactic Centre; Sgr A*; molecular clouds | Integral | ESAC | |
| Ines Belgacem | Icy moons; photometry; remote sensing; image processing | Research Fellow | ESAC | |
| Enrica Bellocchi | Low-z (U)LIRGs; active galaxies; optical/IR/sub-mm/mm astronomy; galaxy kinematics | JWST | CAB | |
| Johannes Benkhoff | Computational modelling of the physics and chemistry of sublimation processes of pourous, dusty, multi-component ices in the Solar System; Mercury. | BepiColombo | ESTEC | |
| Mark Bentley | Space weathering; comets and asteroids; cometary dust; instrumentation | BepiColombo; Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Sebastien Besse | Formation and evolution of the Solar System | Archives; Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Rachana Bhatawdekar | High-z galaxies, galaxy evolution, galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing | Research Fellow (JWST) | ESTEC | |
| Stephan Birkmann | JWST | STScI | ||
| Jose Manuel Blanco | SMOS | ESAC | ||
| Torsten Boeker | JWST | STScI | ||
| Michel Breitfellner | ESAC | |||
| C | Isabel Caballero | Accreting X-ray pulsars; cyclotron lines; pulse profiles | Integral | ESAC |
| José Antonio Caballero | Stars: binaries: visual; stars: brown dwarfs; stars: low-mass; Galaxy: open clusters and associations | CAB | ||
| Luigi Cacciapuoti | Space-based tests of general relativity and quantum mechanics with atomic clocks; matter-wave interferometers; space-to-ground links relying on classical and entangled states of light | ACES | ESTEC | |
| Ignacio de la Calle | AGN; blazars; TeV astronomy | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Hector Canovas | Pre-Main Sequence (T Tauri, Herbig Ae/Be) stars; protoplanetary disks; planet-disk interactions; high contrast imaging; imaging polarimetry; sub-mm interferometry | Research Fellow (Gaia) | ESAC | |
| Alejandro Cardesin Moinelo | Terrestrial Planets: Mars and Venus, Planetary Atmospheres, Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy, Spacecraft and Planetary Geometry | VEX, MEX, ExoMars and JUICE | ESAC | |
| Miguel Cerviño | Synthetic modelling of stellar populations; massive stars; Virtual Observatory | CAB | ||
| Daniela Coia | Galaxy clusters | ExoMars | ESAC | |
| Luigi Colangeli | Coordination | ESTEC | ||
| Thomas Cornet | Planetary surface processes; thermodynamics; landscape evolution; icy moons | BepiColombo | ESAC | |
| Miriam Cortés Contreras | CAB | |||
| Marc Costa i Sitjà | Solar system science operations development; planetary data; orbital mechanics; atmosphere dynamics | VEX | ESAC | |
| Nicolas Crouzet | Exoplanets: detection by transits, observation of atmospheres, Photometric surveys, instrumentation, Astronomy & Astrophysics from Antarctica | JWST | ESTEC | |
| Cian Crowley | ESAC | |||
| Patricia Cruz | Stellar properies; late-type stars; low mass binary systems; spectroscopic characterization of planet-host stars; exoplanet atmospheres |
CAB | ||
| Maria Angeles Cuevas | Planetary geology; comets; planetary science operations | Rosetta | ESAC | |
| D | Arancha Delgado Álvarez | CAB | ||
| Albert Domingo Garau | INTEGRAL/OMC; detectors; photometric techniques; variable stars | CAB | ||
| Jos de Bruijne | Young stellar groups, astrometry, dynamical modelling | Gaia | ESTEC | |
| Guido De Marchi | Star formation, stellar populations, interstellar medium | JWST , Archives | ESTEC | |
| Xavier Dupac | Observational cosmology; interstellar medium; cosmic microwave background | Planck | ESAC | |
| E | Jacobo Ebrero Carrero | AGN; warm absorbers and cosmic feedback processes; evolution and large-scale structure of AGN | XMM-Newton | ESAC |
| Matthias Ehle | Environment of galaxies; galactic halos; cosmic magnetic fields; interstellar and intergalactic medium; galaxy clusters | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Philippe Escoubet | Space plasma physics, Sun-Earth connection, ion spectrometry and spacecraft potential | Cluster/ Double Star | ESTEC | |
| Pilar Esquej | Tidal disruption of stars by supermassive BHs; XMM-Newton Slew Survey | Herschel | ESAC | |
| F | Pierre Ferruit | Galaxy formation and evolution; instrumentation & data processing | JWST | ESTEC |
| Bernhard Fleck | Waves in the Solar atmosphere | Soho | GSFC | |
| Rune Floberghagen | Division Head SCI-SO | ESAC | ||
| Bernard Foing | Moon, Mars, planetary, astrobiology, solar-stellar, exoplanets, techniques & instruments | SMART-1 | ESTEC | |
| Andrew Fox | Milky Way; Interstellar medium; Intergalactic medium; Galaxy evolution; Magellanic Clouds | HST | STScI | |
| Diego Fraga | Planetary data archiving; data formats, data processing and calibration; software development for space applications; optical instruments. | Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Emilio Fraile | Earth Observation, Remote Sensing; Fundamental Physics, Gravitational Waves, Black Hole Physics; Fermi Paradox; Earth-like Planets | Gaia | ESAC | |
| David Frew | Rosetta | ESAC | ||
| Felix Fürst | XMM-Newton | ESAC | ||
| G | Julio Gallegos Alvarado | ESAC | ||
| Pedro Garcia Lario | Stellar evolution; AGB to PNe evolution; IR observations | Herschel | ESAC | |
| Macarena Garcia Marin | JWST | STScI | ||
| Bernhard Geiger | Statistical and numerical techniques for scientific data analysis | MEX; VEX; Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Giovanna Giardino | JWST | ESTEC | ||
| Margherita Giustini | X-rays; accretion disks; active galaxies; super massive blach holes and quasars | CAB | ||
| Pedro Gomez | Gravitational-lensed QSOs | Euclid | ESAC | |
| Philippe Gondoin | Cool stars; stellar activity and open clusters | PLATO | ESTEC | |
| Beatriz Gonzalez Garcia | XMM-Newton | ESAC | ||
| Juan González-Núñez | Astronomical data archive and exploitation; advanced data visualisation techniques | Gaia | ESAC | |
| Rosario Gonzalez Riestra | Cataclysmic variables; classical novae; recurrent novae; symbiotic stars | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Charlotte Götz | Plasma physics | Rosetta, Comet Interceptor | ESTEC | |
| Georgina Graham | Heliophysics; solar wind; plasma physics | Research Fellow (Solar Orbiter) | ESAC | |
| Björn Grieger | Planetary surfaces | Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Anik de Groof | Solar physics; EUV coronal heating; coronal loops; space weather in EUV imaging; solar EUV instrumentation | PROBA2, Solar Orbiter | ESAC | |
| Matteo Guainazzi | AGN; Seyfert galaxies; narrow line regions; radio galaxies; General Relativity; accretion disks | Athena | ESTEC | |
| H | Oliver Hall |
Bayesian Asteroseismology of solar-like oscillators using space-based photometry and Gaia astrometry |
Research Fellow (Gaia, CHEOPS) | ESTEC |
| Günther Hasinger |
Compact objects; X-ray background and cosmology |
Director SCI | ESAC | |
| David Heather | Lunar remote sensing; geological mapping, morphology, volcanism and volcanic history; impact cratering and lunar stratigraphy; lunar volatiles, habitability, and ISRU | PROSPECT, Science Archives | ESTEC | |
| Ana Heras | Detection and characterisation of exoplanets; stellar activity and exoplanets; debris disks | Plato | ESTEC | |
| Svea Hernandez | Galaxy evolution; chemical enrichment in nearby galaxies; ISM; stellar populations | STScI | ||
| Gonzalo Holgado | Massive stars; quantitative spectroscopy; photometric calibration | CAB | ||
| Raymond Hoofs | Planetary science operations; experiment operations; Venus; comets | VEX | ESAC | |
| Nuria Huélamo | Young stellar objects; brown dwarfs; exosolar planets; proto-planetary disks | CAB | ||
| Gaitee Hussain | Star formation and evolution; solar and stellar activity; space weather modelling | Division Head SCI-SC | ESTEC | |
| Hans Huybrighs | Galilean moons: atmospheres and magnetospheric interactions | JUICE | ESTEC | |
| I | Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga | Highly obscured sources; IGR J16318-4848 | XMM-Newton | ESAC |
| Nick Indriolo | Cosmic rays; interstellar medium; astrochemistry; massive star formation; submillimeter galaxies | HST | STScI | |
| Kate Isaak | CHEOPS | ESTEC | ||
| J | Alexander James | The Sun; Coronal Mass Ejection (CME); space weather | Research Fellow (Solar Orbiter) | ESAC |
| Nils Janitzek | Space plasma in-situ measurements; solar wind; solar energetic particles; space weather | Research Fellow (Solar Orbiter) | ESAC | |
| Fred Jansen | ESTEC | |||
| Emilia Järvelä | AGN; narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies; multiwavelength observations | Research Fellow (Herschel) | ESAC | |
| Oliver Jennrich | Gravitational Waves, precision metrology, gravitational physics | LISA Pathfinder, L3 theme "The gravitational Universe", Suzaku | ESTEC | |
| Francisco Jiménez-Esteban | Stellar evolution; AGB; post-AGB; LBV; Virtual Observatory | CAB | ||
| Tereza Jerabkova | Star-formation; stellar populations; star clusters; galaxy evolution; cosmic star-formation history | Research Fellow (Gaia; JWST) | ESTEC | |
| K | Jari Kajava | CAB | ||
| Sarah Kendrew | High-mass star formation in the Milky Way; stellar feedback; galaxy evolution at high z; citizen science | JWST | STScI | |
| Mark Kidger | Photometric calibration; comets; blazars | Herschel | ESAC | |
| Markus Kissler-Patig | Exoplanets; astrobiology; optical/near-infrared telescopes and instrumentation | Department Head SCI-S | ESAC | |
| Ralf Kohley | Optical and SWIR imaging detectors and instrumentation | Euclid | ESAC | |
| Detlef Koschny | Meteors, asteroids | Phobus Sample Return, SSA | ESTEC | |
| Peter Kretschmar | Accreting X-ray pulsars; High-Mass X-ray Binaries; Stellar winds of massive stars; accretion physics | XMM-Newton, Integral | ESAC | |
| Sandor Kruk | Galaxy morphology | Euclid | ESTEC | |
| Michael Kueppers | Cometary Physics; asteroids | Rosetta, HERA | ESAC | |
| Nimisha Kumari | STScI | |||
| Erik Kuulkers | X-ray binaries; Galactic bulge monitoring; X-ray bursts | Integral, Einstein Probe | ESTEC | |
| L | Harri Laakso | Cluster | ESAC | |
| Álvaro Labiano | James Webb Space Telescope; AGN | CAB | ||
| Uwe Lammers | Astrometry; Gaia self-calibration; general relativity in the context of Gaia | Gaia | ESAC | |
| Rene Laureijs | Interstellar Medium; Cosmology with Euclid | Euclid | ESTEC | |
| Jorge Lillo-Box | CAB | |||
| Tanya Lim | ExoMars | ESAC | ||
| Andrew Lobban | Ultra-fast outflows from AGN; Spectroscopy and timing analysis of black hole systems; Multiwavelength variability studies of AGN | Research Fellow (XMM-Newton) | ESAC | |
| Crispin Logan | Galaxy Clusters; cosmology; large Scale Structure; machine Learning | Research Fellow | ESAC | |
| Nora Loiseau | Interacting galaxies | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Belen Lopez | Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs; star formation; extrasolar planets; optical and infrared astronomy; space astronomy | CAB | ||
| Marcos López-Caniego | Cosmology, cosmic microwave background; gravitational lensing; radio and sub-mm sources; compact sources | Planck | ESAC | |
| Rosario Lorente | Magnetic activity in late type stars | ESAC | ||
| Alvaro Llorente | SMOS | ESAC | ||
| Nora Luetzgendorf | JWST, LISA | STScI | ||
| M | Alan Macfarlane | Planetary science; data visualisation and modelling | BepiColombo | ESAC |
| Jesús Maíz Apellániz | Massive stars; massive young clusters; interstellar lines and extinction; surveys; photometric calibration | CAB | ||
| Elena Manjavacas | Low-mass stars; brown dwarfs; exoplanets | JWST | STScI | |
| Pablo Marcos Arenal | Protoplanetary disks; exoplanets; astronomical instrumentation; science data processing; machine learning | CAB | ||
| Julia Marín-Yaseli de la Parra | Cometary science; coma dust particles | MEX | ESAC | |
| Anthony Marston | Evolved massive stars; Wolf-Rayet stars; interaction with environment | XMM-Newton, JWST | ESAC | |
| Patrick Martin | Mars; planetary surface composition; remote sensing; mineralogy | MEX; VEX | ESAC | |
| Fernando Martin Porqueras | ESAC | |||
| Santa Martinez | Planetary data; science archives | BepiColombo | ESAC | |
| Juan-Manuel Martin-Fleitas | Astronomical instrumentation | Gaia | ESAC | |
| J. Miguel Mas-Hesse | Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques; astrobiology; starburst galaxies; high redshift galaxies | CAB | ||
| Arnaud Masson | Space plasma physics, Sun-Earth connection, natural plasma waves | Cluster | ESAC | |
| Mark McCaughrean | ESTEC | |||
| Paul McNamara | Gravitational waves, data analysis, instrument characterisation, interferometry design and operation | LISA Pathfinder | ESTEC | |
| Luis Mendes | Cosmic microwave background; sosmological isotropy; gravitational waves | Planck | ESAC | |
| Ignacio Mendigutía | Star and planet formation; protoplanetary disks; star-disk-planet interactions; Herbig Ae/Be stars; high spatial resolution techniques | CAB | ||
| Bruno Merín | Star formation; protoplanetary disks and planet formation; IR astronomy | ESDC | ESAC | |
| François Mernier | Galaxy clusters, chemical enrichment, AGN feedback, X-ray spectroscopy | XMM-Newton | ESTEC | |
| Donald Merritt | Systems engineering; geology; planetary astronomy; spacecraft operations | VEX | ESAC | |
| Leo Metcalfe | Gravitational lensing; Deep galaxy surveys in IR; Clusters of galaxies | Herschel, ExoMars | ESAC | |
| Harold Metselaar | Mathematician; spectrometers | ESTEC | ||
| Daniel Michalik | Astrometry; Bayesian inference; Gaia; TGAS | Gaia | ESTEC | |
| Helen Middleton | Planetary atmospheres and ionospheres | BepiColombo | ESAC | |
| Simone Migliari | XMM-Newton | ESAC | ||
| Matteo Miluzio | Euclid | ESAC | ||
| Giovanni Miniutti | X-ray astronomy; AGN; X-ray binaries; black holes; neutron stars; accretion discs; general relativity | CAB | ||
| Richard Moissl | ESTEC | |||
| Benjamin Montesinos | Proto-planetary disks; activity cycles in late-type stars; hydrodynamics of gas in the penumbra of sunspots | CAB | ||
| Alcione Mora | Astronomical instrumentation; star formation | Gaia | ESAC | |
| María Morales Calderón | CAB | |||
| Daniel Müller | Solar physics: numerical modelling, data visualisation, spectropolarimetry | Solar Orbiter | ESTEC | |
| Carlos Muniz Solaz | ESAC | |||
| Michela Muñoz Fernández | ExoMars | ESAC | ||
| N | Vicente Navarro | Computational methods | ESDC | ESAC |
| Federico Nespoli | VIRTIS; PFS; spectroscopy | VEX | ESAC | |
| Jan-Uwe Ness | Supersoft X-ray binary sources; Classical Novae; stellar coronae; high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy | XMM-Newton, Integral | ESAC | |
| Antonella Nota | Star clusters and nebulae | HST | STScI | |
| O | Francisco Ocaña González | Astronomical instrumentation; site characterisation and light pollution; meteor physics; inner planets and small bodies | BepiColombo | ESAC |
| Eduardo Ojero Pascual | Software development for astronomical data | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Lyndsay Old | Galaxy clusters; galaxy evolution; cosmology; large-scale structure | Research Fellow | ESAC | |
| Csilla Orgel | Planetary remote sensing geology and geospatial science | Research Fellow (ExoMars, PROSPECT and Mars Sample Return) | ESTEC | |
| Larry O'Rourke | PLATO | ESAC | ||
| Iñaki Ortiz de Landaluce | BepiColombo | ESAC | ||
| Pedro Osuna Alcalaya | Heliophysics; Exospheric Solar Wind acceleration; Plasma Physics | Solar Orbiter | ESAC | |
| P | Jose Vicente Perea Calderon | Stellar Evolution; AGB to PNe evolution; IR observations | XMM-Newton | ESAC |
| Miguel Perez Ayucar | Solar observatory; Venus; Titan; bistatic radar; interplanetary media scintillation | VEX | ESAC | |
| Ana Pérez García | CAB | |||
| Ricardo Perez Martinez | Gravitational lensing; galaxy clusters; deep IR surveys | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Göran Pilbratt | Herschel | ESTEC | ||
| Timo Prusti | Young Stars; Disks; Clusters and Clouds in Gould Belt | Gaia | ESTEC | |
| Elena Puga | Formation of high-mass stars | ESAC | ||
| R | Elena Racero | AGN; blazars; multiwavelength variability in AGN; asteroids | ESAC | |
| Mercedes Ramos | Gaia | ESAC | ||
| Theresa Rank-Lüftinger | Ariel | ESTEC | ||
| Tim Rawle | Galaxy clusters; gravitational lensing; high redshift galaxies; Herschel surveys | JWST | STScI | |
| Stefan Remus | Remote sensing | ESTEC | ||
| Emily Rickman | Exoplanets; brown dwarfs; direct imaging; emission spectroscopy; atmospheric characterisation | Research Fellow | STScI | |
| Carlos Rodrigo | Virtual observatory standards, theoretical models, applications | CAB | ||
| Pedro Rodriguez Pascual | AGN; line emitting gas; star forming processes; solar system bodies in X-rays | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Kate Rowlands | Galaxy evolution and transformation; post-starburst galaxies; dust and gas in galaxies; multi-wavelength surveys; IFU spectroscopy; SED fitting codes | HST | STScI | |
| S | Johannes Sahlmann | Exoplanets; brown dwarfs: instrumentation; astrometry | Gaia | ESAC |
| Emilio Salazar | Artificial Intelligence in astronomy; high energy physics | ESAC | ||
| Luis Sanchez | Solar physics; helioseismology; solar cycle | Solar Orbiter | ESAC | |
| Carmen Sánchez Contreras | AGB stars; pre-planetary nebulae; planetary nebulae | CAB | ||
| Celia Sanchez Fernandez | Low-mass X-ray binaries; X-ray bursts | Integral | ESAC | |
| Maria Santos Lleo | AGN; multi-wavelength spectroscopy of Seyfert 1 galaxies | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Jorge Sanz Forcada | Stellar coronae; X-rays from hot stars; effects of X-rays in planetary atmospheres | CAB | ||
| Richard Saxton | AGN; X-ray flaring galaxies; tidal disruption of stars by supermassive BHs; XMM-Newton Slew Survey | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Norbert Schartel | X-ray emission of AGNs; X-ray weak quasars; relativistically broad iron line around black holes; ionized absorbers | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Rita Schulz | Cometary Science and minor bodies | ESTEC | ||
| Elliot Sefton-Nash | Planetary geology & remote sensing: surface properties (thermophysical, morphological, mineralogical), surface-atmosphere interaction, volatiles, habitability, computational methods, planetary GIS | ExoMars | ESTEC | |
| Marco Sirianni | JWST calibration; optical and IR detectors | JWST | STScI | |
| Linda Smith | Massive stars; super star clusters; stellar feedback | HST | STScI | |
| Michael Smith | X-ray and radio observations; supernova remnants | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Enrique Solano | Astronomical databases; virtual observatory tools; asteroids; brown dwarfs | CAB | ||
| Anezina Solomonidou | Geology of icy moons; surface evolution; interior dynamics | Research Fellow (JUICE) | ESAC | |
| Paule Sonnentrucker | Molecular astrophysics and ices in space; interstellar medium and dust; star formation | HST | STScI | |
| Anamarija Stankov | Asterosismology; stellar interiors; stellar oscillations | BepiColombo | ESTEC | |
| Martin Stuhlinger | AGN; X-ray variability of quasars; 3C 273; X-ray Binaries; Vela X-1 | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Håkan Svedhem | ExoMars, Venus Express | ESTEC | ||
| T | Jan Tauber | Structure and composition of the diffuse Galactic Interstellar Medium using data from Planck and/or balloon-based observatories. CMB cosmology using Planck data products | Planck | ESTEC |
| Matt Taylor | Space plasma physics, predominently magnetospheric boundary layers using multi-spacecraft and multi-mission data sets | Rosetta, Cluster | ESTEC | |
| Damien Texier | Division Head SCI-SD | ESAC | ||
| David Teyssier | Massive star formation; astro-chemistry of the interstellar medium | Herschel, Gaia | ESAC | |
| Dmitriy Titov | Planetary atmospheres and surfaces, remote sensing | Mars Express, Venus Express | ESTEC | |
| Laura Tomas | Cosmic X-ray background; AGN | XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| V | Jorge Vago | Exomars | ESTEC | |
| Claire Vallat | Cometary science | Rosetta | ESAC | |
| Ivan Valtchanov | Galaxy clusters and groups; large-scale structure; cosmology; multi-wavelength observations | Herschel, XMM-Newton | ESAC | |
| Roland Vavrek | Interstellar medium; molecular clouds; wavelet image analysis | Euclid | ESAC | |
| Javier Ventura-Traveset | Scientific aspects of GNSS / Satellite Navigation, including General relativity, relativistic positioning, ionosphere / space weather, metrology, etc | Galileo, EGNOS, NAVISP | ESAC | |
| Eva Verdugo Rodrigo | A-type supergiants; T Tauri stars | Herschel | ESAC | |
| Eva Villaver | Exoplanets: detection, dynamics, survival and evolution; stellar evolution; AGB stars, white dwarfs and planetary Nebulae; ISM gas dynamics | CAB | ||
| Martin Voelker | Planetary geology; planetary surface processes; remote sensing; geography | Research Fellow (Exomars) | ESAC | |
| W | Andrew Walsh | Space plasma physics; terrestrial magnetosphere; magnetotail structure and dynamics; solar wind | Solar Orbiter | ESAC |
| Laura Watkins | Astrometry; dynamical modelling; globular clusters; local group galaxies; proper motions; stellar kinematics | HST | STScI | |
| Dave Williams | Solar and heliospheric physics | Solar Orbiter | ESAC | |
| Olivier Witasse | Planetary atmospheres | JUICE | ESTEC | |
| Z | Peter Zeidler | Young star clusters; HII regions; stellar and gas kinematics; feedback; photometry; (integral field) spectroscopy | JWST | STScI |
| Joe Zender | Solar physics, terrestrial planets, metor physics (spectral analysis) | Proba, BepiColombo | ESTEC | |
| Yannis Zouganelis | Solar and heliospheric physics | Solar Orbiter | ESAC | |