Understanding the Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres (Space Sciences Series of ISSI, 81, Band 81) - Softcover

Helmut Lammer works at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz. His main scientific expertise is related to comparative planetology with a focus on comparative Aeronomy between Solar System and exoplanets, their origin, the escape and evolution of planetary atmospheres and water inventories and the implications for habitability. He was and is involved in several space missions (e.g., COROT, BepiColombo, JUICE as a Co-I). He was involved in ESAs Terrestrial Exoplanet Science Advisory Team and was member of ESAs Solar System Working Group, coordinated the Europlanet EU-FP7 project Networking Activity Working Group on Exoplanets and is involved in international projects related to atmosphere evolution and habitability implications as well as currently studied exoplanet projects such as CHEOPS and PLATO.

Prof. Michel Blanc is a planetary scientist working at IRAP, Toulouse, France. His research focuses on giant planets systems, the comparative study of Planetary Systems and planetary magnetospheres. He has been the first coordinator of Europlanet from 2005 to 2012, an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the Cassini-Huygens mission, the initiator of the Laplace mission proposal to ESA which led to the selection of ESA’s JUICE mission, and is currently a co-Investigator on NASA’s Juno mission. He has published about 200 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. He is a member of the Air and Space Academy, ofthe International Academy of Astronautics, and of the Academia Europaea, and currently leads the “Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061” foresight exercise.