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ESPRI team

ESPRI team members at MPIA

 NameContact detailsRole
Formal photo of Harald BaumeisterHarald
Baumeister

+49 6221528 316
Mechanical design of DDL cat's eye
Photo of Peter BizenbergerPeter
Bizenberger

+49 6221528 311
Optical design of DDL cat's eye
Formal photo of Uwe GraserUwe
Graser
 Manager of DDL cat's eye work package
Formal photo of Thomas HenningThomas
Henning
Principle Investigator (PI)
Formal photo of Ralf LaunhardtRalf
Launhardt

+49 6221528 207
Project Scientist
Photo
    of Andre MuellerAndré
Müller
 Characterization of target and reference stars
Photo
    of TimTim
Schulze-Hartung

+49 6221528 357
Orbit fitting
Formal photo of Johny SetiawanJohny
Setiawan
+49 6221528 326Science team and characterization of target and reference stars
Formal photo of Karl WagnerKarl
Wagner
 Electronics for DDL
Photo of Patrick WeisePatrick
Weise
 Characterization of target and reference stars

Former members of the team

 NameContact detailsRole
Photo of Bob Tubbs in AustraliaRobert
Tubbs
Error budget and strategy

The ESPRI consortium

The consortium has two other PI institutes, each of them represented by one PI. The three PIs act as a team. In addition, a number of secondary partner institutes is attached to Geneva Observatory.

The primary partners

Institute Address Country Responsible
Landessternwarte Heidelberg
ZAH, Landessternwarte
Koenigstuhl
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
D Andreas Quirrenbach
Observatoire de Genève
Observatoire de Genève
51, ch. des Maillettes
1290 Sauverny
Switzerland
CH Didier Queloz
MPIA Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
Königstuhl 17
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
D Thomas Henning

Secondary partners

Institute Address Country Responsible
Laboratoire d'Automatique, EPF Lausanne
Automatic Control Laboratory,
School of Engineering,
EPFL - 1015 Lausanne
CH Denis Gillet
Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques, EPF Lausanne
Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques
ME3, Ch. des Machines
EPFL - 1015 Lausanne
CH Hannes Bleuler
ARC St. Imier
ARC St. Imier
Ville de Saint-Imier,
Rue Agassiz 4,
CH-2610 Saint-Imier / Suisse
CH Yves Salvade
CSEM
Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA
Rue Jaquet-Droz 1,
P.O. Box,
CH-2007 Neuchâtel
CH Lorenzo Zago
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last update: 28-01-2008
editor of this page: Patrick Weise