AFFECTS Project Partners and Key Persons
The AFFECTS project involves 7 European research and academic institutions and industrial enterprises from Germany, Belgium, Norway and Ukraine.
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centrer in Boulder, USA, supports the project as an external collaborator.
Planetarium Hamburg functions as the AFFECTS Public Outreach and Education Center.
On this site, all beneficiaries and external partners are introduced.
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
- Project Role: Coordinator
- Leads Work Package (WP) 1 "Management"
- Key Personnel:
- Dr. Volker Bothmer (Coordinator)
- Eckard Bosman (Ph.D)
- Malte Venzmer (Ph.D)
- Adam Pluta (Ph.D)
- Dörte Dannemann (Project Management)
- Contact: bothmer(at)astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de
- Homepage: http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~bothmer/Homepage/home.en.html
More information about UGOE's tasks within AFFECTS:
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Solar Influences Data Analysis Center, BELGIUM
- Project Role: Partner
- Leads WP 3 "Early Warning System" and 6 "Data and Product Dissemination, Product Sustainability"
- Key Personnel:
- Dr. Ronald Van der Linden (Leader WP 6)
- Dr. Cis Verbeeck (Leader WP 3)
- Emil Kraaikamp
- Vincent Malisse
- Contact: cis.verbeeck(at)oma.be
- Homepage: http://sidc.be/affects/
More information about ROB's tasks in AFFECTS:
Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Space Agency, UKRAINE
- Project Role: Partner
- Leads WP 4 "Forecasting Tools and Modelling"
- Key Personnel:
- Dr. Aleksei Parnowski (group leader)
- Prof. Oleg Cheemnykh
- Prof. Vitaliy Yatsenko
- Prof. Vsevolod Kuntsevich
- Dr. Nikolai Salnikov
- Dr. Igor Kremenetsky
- Dr. Oleg Semeniv
- Anna Polonska
- Contact: parnowski(at)gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.ikd.kiev.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22%3A2011-02-09-12-19-54&catid=12&Itemid=15&lang=en
More information about SRI's tasks within AFFECTS:
Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM, Freiburg, GERMANY
- Project Role: Partner
- Co-Lead of WP 2 "Data, Calibration, Maintenance and Instrumentation"
- Key Personnel:
- Dr. Raimund Brunner (Group Leader)
- Dr. Gerhard Schmidtke
- Marcel Pfeifer
- Contact: raimund.brunner(at)ipm.fraunhofer.de
- Homepage: http://www.ipm.fraunhofer.de/en/solutions-markets/environment-health/space/spaceweather_affects.html
More about FHG IPM and AFFECTS:
University of Tromsoe, Tromsoe Geophysical Observatory, NORWAY
- Project Role: Partner
- Leads WP 2 "Data, Calibration, Maintenance and Instrumentation"
- Key Personnel:
- Prof. Chris Hall (Group Leader)
- Magnar G. Johnsen (Ph.D)
- Contact: chris.hall(at)uit.no
- Homepage: http://affects.uit.no/
http://geo.phys.uit.no/index.html
More information about the Geophysical Observatory's tasks within AFFECTS:
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Neustrelitz, GERMANY
- Project Role: Partner
- Leads WP 5 "Forecast System Ionosphere, User Interfaces"
- Key Personnel:
- Dr. Norbert Jakowski
- Dr. Jens Berdermann
- Dr. Claudia Borries
- Contact: jens.berdermann(at)dlr.de
- Homepage: http://swaciwebdevelop.dlr.de/homeaffects/?L=1
More information about DLR's tasks within AFFECTS:
Astrium ST, Friedrichshafen, GERMANY
- Project Role: Partner
- Key Personnel:
- Wilfried Pfeffer
- Contact: wilfried.pfeffer(at)astrium.eads.net
- Homepage: http://www.astrium.eads.net/en/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, USA
- Project Role: External Collaborator
- Co-Lead of WP 6 "Data and Product Dissemination, Product Sustainability"
- Key Personnel:
- Dr. Rodney Viereck
- Dr. Terry Onsager
- Contact: rodney.viereck(at)noaa.gov
- Homepage: www.swpc.noaa.gov
More information about NOAA-SWPC's tasks within AFFECTS
Planetarium Hamburg, GERMANY
- Project Role: Education and Public Outreach Center
- Key Personnel: Thomas Kraupe
- Contact: info(at)planetarium-hamburg.de
- Homepage: http://www.planetarium-hamburg.de/