Plasma Sources of Solar System Magnetospheres / Space Sciences Series of ISSI Bd.52 (PDF)

J. A. Fleming Medal and the William Kaula Award, was the Nicolet Lecturer at AGU and was a winner of the NASA Public Service Medal.



Dr. Michel Blanc graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1970) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (1973), and defended his doctoral
thesis in 1980 at Université Paris VI. He started his career in the field of
ionospheric research and space physics at the Centre de Recherches en Physique
de l'Environnement. In 1988 he was appointed director of the Midi-Pyrénées
Observatory in Toulouse. There he has been actively involved in the preparation
of several major space programmes, first ESA's CLUSTER mission, then on the
exploration of giant planets: first the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and
Titan, for which he has been appointed by NASA Interdisciplinary Scientist, and
later the EJSM/Laplace joint ESA-NASA mission to the Jupiter system, for which
he served as ESA's lead scientist. From July 2000 to June 2005, he has been
director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence. From august
2007 to February 2012 he has been Vice-president for research of Ecole
Polytechnique. Dr. Blanc has been a member of the SSWG of ESA and has chaired
for nearly 10 years the Solar system working group of CNES. He has been the
chairman of the CERES, the Space Science Committee of CNES, which covers all
disciplines from fundamental physics to astrobiology, and a member of the
Comité des Programmes Scientifiques (CPS) of CNES. From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Blanc
has been the coordinator of the EuroPlanet EU network, a research
infrastructure network gathering over 60 planetary science laboratories in 17
EU countries. He is now back at the Observatoire Mid-Pyrénées (IRAP laboratory)
in Toulouse where he is working on giant planets magnetospheres, particularly through his involvements in the Cassini and Juno missions, and also serves as Discipline Scientist (in particular for planetary sciences) at ISSI.



Professor Charles Richard (Rick) Chappell graduated magna cum laude in physics from Vanderbilt University and received a Ph.D. in space science from Rice University. He is currently a Research Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University. He has been involved in teaching and research and is active in science communication, outreach and education. From 2002-2009, Professor Chappell was the Director of the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Prior to this he guided the creation of a new interdisciplinary major in the Communication of Science and Technology. In September 1996, Professor Chappell and former NBC Today Show host Jim Hartz joined Vanderbilt as Visiting Professional Scholars to conduct a project examining media coverage of news related to science and technology. The resulting book, "Worlds Apart," was released in March 1998. As Associate Director for Science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (1987-1997), he served as the chief scientist for the center. He has directed researchin solar terrestrial physics and has been a principal investigator on several satellite missions. From 1976 to 1985, Professor Chappell was the mission scientist for Spacelab 1, a joint European/American shuttle mission. In December 1985, he was selected to train as an alternate payload specialist crewmember for the space shuttle mission STS-45, which was carried out in March 1992. From 1994 to 1995, Professor Chappell worked with then US Vice President Al Gore to create the K-12 GLOBE science education program. In 1989 he co-founded the Aspen Global Change Institute with John Denver's Windstar Foundation. As a scientist and spokesman for the space program, Professor Chappell has been interviewed on NBC, ABC, CNN and the BBC. He has authored more than 150 published scientific articles. Professor Chappell is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the International Academy of Astronautics and has received the NASA Medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and Exceptional Service.



Dr. Norbert Krupp studied experimental physics at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology in Germany until 1991, followed by a position at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in Germany. He obtained his PhD in 1994 from the Braunschweig University of Technology, analyzing energetic particle data from the EPAC instrument onboard Ulysses during the Jupiter flyby. His career continued with a Postdoc position at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD, USA, where he continued his study of Jupiter's environment. Since 1996 he has been a staff member of the planetary department at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, where he is responsible for the data analysis and the design of many particle instruments listed below. His main interest is the study of plasma processes in outer planet's magnetospheres and their interaction with moons. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals. Dr. Krupp has been and is involved in the following space missions: PI of EPAC/Ulysses; Co-I on EPD(Galileo), MIMI/Cassini, Aspera-3/MarsExpress, Aspera-4/VenusExpress, MPPE/BepiColombo, Serena/BepiColombo, PEP/Juice, JMAG/Juice, SWI/Juice. He is the chair of the Magnetosphere and Plasma science working groups of Cassini and Juice. In addition, Dr. Krupp was a member of the science definition team of EJSM/Laplace (now Juice). In February of 2015 he became a honorary reader of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory/University College London.