Programme 2 - 4 May

European Space Agency Credit: ESA/NASA Credit:

The International Space Station with the docked Europe’s ATV Johannes Kepler and Endeavour, taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on 24 May 2011 Welcome to the ISS Symposium 2012

More than ten years ago, the first module of the International Space Station (ISS) began offering scientists a unique research laboratory in space.

Now that we have permanent access to Maximising scientific and techno- a fully assembled and operational ISS, logical return on our investment in the time has come to gather here in the ISS shall be one of the main priori- Berlin to not only celebrate this ties in the coming years. Providing a exemplary international cooperation reliable gateway and access to the and partnership in space, but also the Station another, in order to guarantee key accomplishments in ISS research and maximise the best scientific return made to date. Together with all our from the ISS for at least another partners, we have learned how to decade, and last but not least look at successfully work side by side, and the ways in which we can best utilise the orbital outpost continues to be a positive Station as a stepping stone for prepa- example of team work at its best. ring for future human exploration missions beyond LEO. During the 36 times that the Station will be orbiting the Earth throughout For planet Earth and our journey the three-day Symposium, we will have beyond, let’s keep researching to better the opportunity to look at case-studies understand our world, utilise and in fundamental and applied research explore space. and the actual or potential spin-offs for the benefit of humankind, as well as to discuss the future path and priorities for research on ISS.

Thomas Reiter ESA Director of Human and Operations Credit: ESA/NASA Credit:

Berlin, March 19, 2011 photographed by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli during the MagISStra mission Day 1 – Wednesday 2 May

11:00 Registration 15:45 Remarks by a European Politician • Europe’s decision to participate in the 13:15 Countdown ISS and the importance of research in • Introduction with multimedia difficult times presentation H. Riesenhuber (former German Minister U. Bobinger, Moderator for Research and Technology)

13:30 Opening Session 16:00 Coffee break • Welcome address + interview opportunity for media J-J. Dordain (ESA Director General) J-D. Wörner (CEO DLR) 16:30 ISS Utilisation Programme • Research Overview of ISS Partnership 14:10 Opening Session J. Robinson • Welcome address (ISS Programme Scientist, NASA) P. Rösler, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Federal Chairman of 17:00 ISS Research Highlights the FDP and Vice-chancellor of Germany • The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment on ISS - 14:20 Agencies Leaders’ Roundtable An endeavour for a Global Research • Research on ISS for the benefit Collaboration of mankind S. Schael (Professor for Experimental • ISS as a stepping stone for Physics, RWTH Aachen University) Human Exploration M. Uhran (ISS Director, NASA) 18:00 ISS Inspirations A. Krasnov (Director of Human Space • Living and Working in Space Flight Programme Department, S. Krikalev (Head of GCTC) Roscosmos) T. Iwasa (Director, Office for Space 18:15 End 1st Day Programme Utilisation Promotion, MEXT) and K. Higuchi (Vice President JAXA) 19:30 Formal Reception/ Dinner G. Leclerc (Director General for , CSA) J-J. Dordain (ESA Director General) Day 2 – Thursday 3 May

09:00 Opening incl. introduction to Exhibition 12:35 Lunch break • A world without gravity – research on ISS for the benefit of life 13:45 Biotechnology Research on Earth • Biotechnology in space T. Reiter (ESA Director of Human M. Hughes-Fulford, Scientific Advisor to Spaceflight and Operations) the Undersecretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Professor at the 09:15 Multimedia Presentation University of California, San Francisco • Message from ISS / PromISSe Mission video 14:20 Human Research & Space Moderator • Human Research in Space for life on Earth and future Exploration 09:25 Complex Fluids A. Choukèr Senior Physician and Associate • From Plasma Research on the ISS Professor at the Dept. of Anaesthesiology, to Applications on Earth Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians- G. Morfill (Director of the Max Planck University of Munich Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

10:00 Advanced Materials Research 15:05 Life Sciences in Space • Materials research in space and Health on Earth and industrial R&D practice • Integrated Human Research for Benefits R. Guntlin (Managing Director, Access) on Earth and for Exploration Roundtable Chair: R. Gerzer (Head of 10:35 Fundamental Physics DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine) • High precision space clocks Ch. Mukai, M. Barratt, P. Suedfeld, and quantum physics H. Kuppe, B. Morukov C. Salomon (Research Director, CNRS) 15:55 Coffee break 11:10 Coffee break 16:25 Earth Observation and Climate Change 11:40 Physical Research in Space • Earth and Atmosphere Monitoring from ISS and on Ground R. Sato (Manager of Sensor Technology • Research for New Materials and Energy Office of Earth Observation Research Challenges of tomorrow Center, JAXA) Roundtable Chair: M. Cruise (ESA-PSWG Chair) H. Fecht, D. Jarvis, C. Gehin-Delval, K. Nishino, M. Uhran, J. Banhart Day 3 – Friday 4 May

16:50 Space Science and Technology 09:00 Introduction Day 3 • Long-term Space Monitoring and Moderator Materials Exposure Roundtable Chair: 09:15 Future Key Research Challenges on ISS W. Abdalati (Chief Scientist, NASA) • NASA’s Research Priorities on ISS P. Ehrenfreund, J. Robinson, M. Matsuoka, M. Uhran (ISS Director, NASA) G. Schmidtke, B. Zagreev, T. Neubert • JAXA’s ISS Utilisation Strategy M. Asashima (AIST/Japan) 17:50 ISS Research Outlook • Russia’s ISS Research Programme • The Importance for Research on ISS – G. Karabadzhak (TsNIIMash/Russia) a Perspective from the US National • Canadian ISS Research Priorities Academies Decadal Survey N. Buckley (Chief Scientist, ISS and Life E. Cantwell, (Chair of NRC Decadal Survey) Sciences, CSA) • European ISS Research Strategy 18:20 Day 2 Conclusions C. Fuglesang (Head of Science and • ISS Research Accomplishments Application Division, ESA) W. Abdalati (Chief Scientist, NASA) 10:30 Human Exploration 18:50 End 2nd Day Programme • Use of ISS for Human Exploration in LEO and beyond 20:00 Dinner (River Cruise) C. Bolden (NASA Administrator)

11:00 Future ISS Perspectives • ISS and beyond: What is in there for you? B. Feuerbacher (ESA-HESAC Chair) 11:30 • The ISS and ESA’s future Science and Technology M. Longair (ESA-HISPAC Chair)

11:45 Symposium Closing Session • Future Perspectives and Closing remarks T. Reiter (D/HSO, ESA)

12:00 Press Conference J-J. Dordain, C. Bolden, A. Krasnov, K. Higuchi, G. Leclerc

12:30 Business Buffet and End of Symposium Credit: ESA/NASA Credit:

ESA astronaut André Kuipers ingressing the International Space Station, 23 December 2011 roesler-pressefoto-1,property=bild,bereich=bmwi,sprache=de.jpg (JP... http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/Bilder/Ministerium/roesler-pres... Uli Bobinger Philipp Rösler Space journalist, TV Federal Minister of producer and moderator Economics and Technology, Federal Chairman of the Uli Bobinger is working FDP and Vice-chancellor of as a space journalist, tv Germany since May 2011 producer and moderator since the early 90’s. His features and live-reports have 1 von 1 In 2003, Mr. Rösler04.04.2012 10:39 was elected to the state been broadcasted by german nationwide tv parliament of Lower Saxony and remained channels as SAT.1, n-tv and Deutsche Welle a member of this parliament and chairman tv. Moreover, Uli Bobinger is worldwide a of the FDP state parliamentary group until constant guest as a moderator in inter- 2009. At the beginning of 2009, he was national podium discussions concerning appointed Minister of Economics, Labour space topics. and Transport and Deputy Minister- President of the state of Lower Saxony. In October 2009 he joined the Federal Government as Federal Minister of Health.

Jean-Jacques Dordain Johann-Dietrich Wörner ESA Director General CEO DLR

Since July 2003, having Chairman of the Executive been reappointed twice. Board of the German Prior to becoming the Aerospace Center since Director General, Mr Dordain served first as March 2007. Prof. Wörner is a member of ESA’s Director for Strategy and Technical the board of École Centrale Paris and École Assessment and then Director of Launchers. Centrale Lyon, the Convention for Technical He joined ESA initially in 1986 as Head of Sciences (acatech) and the supervisory ESA’s Microgravity and Space Station board of Röhm GmbH, among others. Utilisation Department. Mark L. Uhran Alexey Borisovich ISS Director, NASA Krasnov Director of Human Space He has been a leader in Flight Programme evaluating practical applica- Department, Roscosmos tions of orbital space stations since 1984. Since that time, he has In 1993-2000 Mr. Krasnov worked under the traveled worldwide developing strategies for “MIR” program. He was the head of the Russian use of the International Space Station. team to set up the Roscosmos’ participation in ISS Program and other international projects Mr. Uhran received a Bachelor of Science degree with NASA, ESA, JAXA, and ISRO. At present from Cornell University (1976), a Master of time, he is a member of several ISS Control Science degree from the University of Maryland Boards, including Multilateral Coordination (1987), a Master of Public Administration Board and Space Station Control Board. degree from Harvard University (1998), and is Mr. Krasnov is the Manager of ISS Program for an Associate Fellow of the American Institute Russia (from 2004). Member of Academy of of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Cosmonautic named after K.E.T siolkovsky and International Academy of Astronautics (France).

Takaaki Iwasa Kiyoshi Higuchi Director, Office for Space Vice President, JAXA Utilization Promotion, Ministry of Education, He joined the National Culture, Sports, Science and Space Development Agency Technology Japan (MEXT). of Japan (NASDA) in 1969, and engaged in system design of H-1 launch He majored in non-formal education at Dept. vehicle, the planning of overall research and of Education, University of . He joined the planning of Japan’s participation in the the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and International Space Station (ISS) program. Culture in 1991 and held several posts, inclu- In 2003, he was appointed as the Executive ding the director of the anti-doping promoti- Director of JAXA, responsible for Strategic on office, the director of non-formal education Planning and Lunar and Planetary division, Board of Education in Kumamoto Exploration Program. Prefecture. He has also worked for the liaison From 2010, he has been appointed as the office of the Japan Society for Promotion of Vice President of JAXA. Science in London and Stockholm and for the Embassy of Japan in Beijing. Gilles Leclerc Julie Robinson Director General for Space ISS Programme Scientist, Exploration, CSA NASA

Joined the Canadian Dr. Julie A. Robinson is Space Agency in 1989 the Program Scientist where he occupied the positions of Project for the International Space Station (ISS) Engineer, Director of Technology Manage- for the National Aeronautics and Space ment and Applications, and Director Administration (NASA). She serves as General for Space Technologies. From 1997 the chief scientist for the ISS Program to 2000, he was posted at the Canadian and chairs the ISS Program Science Embassy in Paris as Counsellor for Science, Forum, made up of the senior scientists Technology and Space Affairs. In 2010, he for each of the space agencies in the became the first Director General for Space ISS international partnership. She has Exploration at the . an interdisciplinary background in the This organization regroups the Internatio- physical and biological sciences. She nal Space Station, astronomy and planetary has authored over 50 scientific missions, robotics, human space flight and publications. life sciences programs.

Heinz Riesenhuber Stefan Schael Member of Parliament, Professor for former Federal Minister Experimental Physics, for Research and RWTH Aachen Technology Stefan Schael works as Prof. Dr. Heinz Riesenhuber has been Professor for Experimental Physics at Member of the Federal German Parliament RWTH Aachen University since 2000. (Bundestag) since 1976 and became Father The focus of his work is the link bet- of The House in 2009. He served as Federal ween accelerator and space experi- Minister for Research and Technology from ments to explore the nature of dark 1982 until 1993. Since 1993 he has been a matter. For the AMS project, he coordi- member of the Bundestag Committee on nates the German contributions and Economics and Technology. He is Honorary was responsible for the construction of Professor of the University of Frankfurt, the transition radiation detector. He President of the German Parliamentary also played a leading role in the deve- Society and member of several Advisory lopment of the silicon tracker for the Panels and Supervisory Boards. CMS experiment at CERN, near Geneva. Sergey Krikalev Thomas Reiter Head of GCTC ESA Director of and Performed six space Operations, Head of missions. Undisputed ESOC in Darmstadt, record-holder for the Germany total spaceflight duration. He is a Fellow of Russian Academy of Cosmo- As an European astronaut , he flew as nautics named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky. Flight Engineer on the ESA/Russian Since August 2007 till 2009 Mr. Krikalev EuroMir ’95 mission to the Mir space functioned as Deputy Chief designer of station in 1995, spending a record 179 Russian Space Corporation-Energy. days in space. In 2006, he flew on the Head of State organization “Gagarin Astrolab mission, ESA’s first long- Research & Test Cosmonaut Training duration mission to the ISS. After his Center” since March 2009. active astronaut career, he was named on 1 October 2007 a member of the DLR Executive Board responsible for Space Research and Technology.

Gregor Morfill Robert Guntlin Director of the Max Managing Director, Access Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics First trained in Business since 1984 Administration and was working for a large Ame- Received a B.Sc. degree in physics and a rican Company in the US and Europe. Ph.D. degree in space plasma physics from Later he studied electronic engineering in Imperial College, London Univ. in 1967 and Aachen and in 1987 became Managing 1970 respectively. The Honorary Doctorate Director of Access, a private research and degree from the Technical Univ. of Berlin development centre (a known technology was awarded in 2003. He also holds hono- and software provider) located at Aachen rary Professorships at the Univ. of Leeds, University. In a unique approach he U.K. and the Univ. of Arizona. He is a foreign bridges fundamental research in materi- member of the Russian Academy of als science using micro gravity as one plat- Sciences and the recipient of a number of form to fully understand the mechanisms important prizes including Patten Prize, of solidification of metals with today’s Bavarian Innovation Prize and the Maxwell requirements of high end castings for the Prize of the American Physical Society. aeronautic and automotive sector. Christophe Salomon Mike Cruise Research Director, CNRS ESA-PSWG Chair

Dr. Christophe Salomon Mike Cruise is Professor works on quantum of Astrophysics and gases and ultrastable Space Research at the clocks in Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, at University of Birmingham in the UK. He Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. has over 120 publications on space As a Research Director at CNRS, he is science and is an author of a textbook Head of the cold Fermi gas group at ENS on the design of space instrumentation. and Principal Investigator for the ACES/ Mike is the Chair of Commission H ( PHARAO space clock Mission of ESA. His Fundamental Physics) in Cospar and research interests range from super- Chair of the ESA Physical Sciences fluidity in quantum gases to high precision Working Group. He has worked on measurements and fundamental physics space projects from Ariel VI, tests with space clocks. He has authored HIPPARCOS, SOHO and Cluster to LISA 180 publications and received six Pathfinder. national or international awards.

Hans Fecht David John Jarvis Chaired Professor and Head of New Materials Director of the Institute & Energy Research, ESA of Micro and Nanomaterials at His team currently University of Ulm runs a 100 M€ port- folio of international R&D projects in After receiving his PhD in 1984 he spent the fields of alloy development, about 6 years in the US (Madison- physical metallurgy, advanced net- Wisconsin, Caltech) and has been shape manufacturing, energy devices, awarded several professorships in nanotechnology and microgravity Germany (Augsburg, Berlin, Karlsruhe, experimentation. He has been working Ulm). He received the prestigious G.W. at ESA for over 10 years, mainly in Leibniz award and has a 25-year-history the area of materials science and in micro-g research on liquid processing engineering, and prior to that he worked on ground and in space (drop tubes, at BMW Research in Munich, Germany. space shuttle, MIR, PFs, TEXUS and in In addition, he holds a Honorary Chaired the future ISS). Professorship at Swansea University, UK. Cécile Gehin-Delval Koichi Nishino Research Scientist, Professor of the Nestlé Research Center Department of Mechanical Cécile Gehin-Delval Engineering, Yokohama obtained her PhD in National University physical chemistry at the University of Besançon in France. Her PhD was His research interests cover turbulence, dealing with electrorheological fluids thermocapillary convection and its and their use as optical waveguides. instability, convective heat transfer and She spent 2 years at the University of flow measurement. He is currently a Geneva studying the aggregation of principal investigator of Marangoni particles using light scattering Experiment in Space (MEIS), which has techniques. She then joined the Nestlé been conducted in Japanese Experiment Research Center as Research Scientist Module ‘KIBO’ since 2008. A total to study colloids such as emulsions and of four series of experiments have foams. She’s married and has 2 little been conducted to reveal instability boys. mechanisms of thermocapillary convection in large liquid bridges.

John Banhart Millie Hughes-Fulford Professor at the Scientific Advisor to the Technical University of Undersecretary of the Berlin, Germany Department of Veterans Affairs and 2002 to present - Head Professor at the of the Department of Engineering University of California, San Francisco Materials at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (now Helmholtz-Centre Berlin). Dr. Hughes-Fulford is the Principal Investi- 1989 - PhD in Physical Chemistry at the gator of an upcoming International Space University of Munich, Germany. Station immunology study examining the 1986 - Research visit to the University activation of T cells in spaceflight. Millie of Vienna and Technical University of served as an astronaut on NASA’s first Vienna, Austria. dedicated medical mission, STS-40. 1984 - Diploma in Physics at the As Director of the Hughes-Fulford University of Munich, Germany. Laboratory, she continues her earthbound studies of regulation of bone regeneration using stem cells and new innovations for regulation of T cell activation. Alexander Choukèr Rupert Gerzer Senior Physician and Associ- Head of DLR Institute of ate Professor at the Dept. of Aerospace Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Lecturer at Cologne, Germany the Ludwig-Maximilians- University (LMU) of Munich He is Trustee to the International Academy of Astronautics Science Team Coordinator of ESA & DLR since 2003, is Co-Editor of Acta funded studies to investigate Stress-Immune Astronautica, member of the Advisory interactions on Earth and on ISS. ESA-LSWG Board on Research under Microgravity Chair, Coordinator of the ESA Topical Team Conditions to the German Aerospace “Stress Challenges and Immunity in Space”. Center, member of the Swedish Since 2005: National Institute of Allergy National Space Board, Chairman of the Infectious Disease (NIAID), “special volun- Science Council of the City of Cologne teer” at Lab. of Immunology at the Nat. and Head of the University Council of Institutes of Health (NIH). Senior house of- the University of Applied Sciences ficer at the Dept. of Anaesthesiology, LMU Bonn-Rhine-Sieg. (2004). John E. Fogarty research award fellow at NIAID, Lab. of Immunology, NIH.

Chiaki Mukai Michael R. Barratt JAXA astronaut and Physician astronaut Vice Director for the and Manager NASA Human Space System Human Research and Utilization Mission Programme Directorate Specialized in internal and aerospace Dr. Chiaki Mukai is a JAXA astronaut of medicine. Experience as NASA flight two Space Shuttle flights: the Second surgeon and project physician, Space International Microgravity Laboratory Shuttle and ISS mission support; mission (STS-65) in July 1994 and US-Russian Mir/Shuttle program STS-95 with US Senator in support. Flight engineer on Soyuz October 1998. Spent more than 566 TMA-14, ISS Expeditions 19 – 20. hours in space. The first Japanese Mission specialist Shuttle flight STS-133. woman to fly in space and also the first Associate editor for space medicine, Japanese astronaut to fly twice in Aviation, Space, and Environmental space. She promotes space utilization. Medicine. Senior editor for text “Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight”. Peter Suedfeld Boris Vladimirovich Dean Emeritus of Morukov Graduate Studies and Physician at the State Professor Emeritus of Research Center RF- Psychology at The Institute for Biomedical University of British Problems (IBMP), Russia Columbia He trained with the Russian Federal His research, using laboratory, field, Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and archival methods and reported in and flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle over 280 publications, focuses on mission STS-106 as a mission specialist. coping, resilience, and growth during and after challenging experiences and environments. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geogra- phical Society, a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, and a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Ryota Sato Waleed Abdalati Manager of Sensor Chief Scientist, NASA Technology Office of Earth Observation Dr. Waleed Abdalati was Research Center (EORC) appointed NASA chief JAXA scientist in January 2011, and serves as the principal advisor to Before joining the EORC, he has been NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on involved in developing SMILES (Super- agency science programs, strategic conducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb planning, and the evaluation of related Emission Sounder) and currently he investments. His research has focused is working for future JEM earth on the use of satellites and aircraft to observation mission. understand how and why Earth’s ice cover is changing, and what those changes mean for life on our planet. Pascale Ehrenfreund Masaru Matsuoka Research Professor of Senior Advisor of RIKEN and (the Institute of Physical International Affairs at and Chemical Research) the Space Policy Institute in Washington Dr. Matsuoka graduated DC and Professor of Astrobiology at from Nagoya Univ. with a doctor of sci- Leiden University, the Netherlands ence in 1966. He then became Associate Professor of ISAS and Tokyo Univ. (1975 to Since two decades she contributed as 1986). Director of Cosmic Radiation Labo- Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator ratory of RIKEN (1986 to 1999), he became and Teamleader to experiments in low Senior Advisor of RIKEN in 2010. An experi- Earth orbit, on the International Space mental and observational researcher of Station as well as ESA and NASA astrophysics based on X-ray astronomy astronomy and planetary missions. since 1963, he has published about 250 Dr. Ehrenfreund serves as the Project papers on X-ray objects using balloon, scientist of NASA’s O/OREOs satellite rockets, and satellites. Science project currently in orbit. manager of MAXI since 1997. Awarded the Asahi Prize with Hakucho team in 1980.

Gerhard Schmidtke Boris Zagreev Senior Project Scientist, Head of Laboratory in Fraunhofer Institute for the Central Research Physical Measurement Institute for Machine Techniques Building, TsNIIMash

Gerhard Schmidtke was born in Lyck/ 1984 – graduated from the “Moscow Ostpreußen, Germany, 1937. He received Engineering Physics Institute” the Diploma and PhD in Physics from (experimental nuclear physics). Freiburg Univ. In 1960 he started working 1993 – Ph.D. (Elementary particle and in EUV spectroscopy and thermo-spheri- nuclear physics). cionospheric physics. 1963/64 he joined 1984 - 2008 – senior researcher in Hinteregger at AFGL. Thereafter he conti- Institute for Theoretical and nued his work on solar, auroral and Experimental Physics. airglow emissions aboard rockets, satel- lites and ISS. In 1998 the TIGER/COSPAR symposia were initiated. More than 140 papers have been published primarily in international journals. Torsten Neubert Elizabeth Cantwell Head of Section for Solar Chair of NRC Decadal Survey Systems Physics, , Technical Senior Advisor for Mission University of Development in NIF and Photon Sciences Directo- PhD. in Physics, University of Copenhagen, rate, and Director for Mission Development 1981. Stanford University and University in Engineering Directorate, LLNL. Before re- of Michigan (1984-1994). Space Shuttle turning to LLNL in 2010 she served as electron beam experiments with Peter Deputy Associate Director for Global Securi- Banks. Particle plasma simulations with ty at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Before, Oscar Buneman. Danish Meteorological she was at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Institute and DTU Space (1995-): Electric She spent a decade at Lawrence Livermore discharges in the stratosphere and National Laboratory. She spent several years mesosphere: the sprites jets and giants. at NASA HQ as a Program Manager for the Lead proposer of ASIM for the ISS in 2015. life and microgravity sciences. She is a Ørsted Satellite Project Scientist. Delegate member of the Nat. Academy of Sciences to ESA’s PB-HME and to the “International Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences Living With a Star” programme. as well as the Space Studies Board.

Makato Asashima Georgy Karabadzhak AIST/Japan TSNIIMASH, Russia

Executive Director of the Graduated from Moscow Japan Society for the Institute of Physics and Promotion of Science Technology. Obtained (JSPS), and Fellow and Director of the PhD (1986) and ScD (2006) degrees in area Research Center for Stem Cell Engineering of plasma physics. Worked for Institute for at the National Institute of Advanced Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Sciences (1980-1986). Since 1986 by mow Emeritus and visiting professor of the has been working for TSNIIMASH, Dept. of Life Sciences (Biology) at the Roscosmos leading R&D institute. Current Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, position – Head of Complex for investiga- Univ. of Tokyo. He was President of the tion of space exploration problems. Japanese Society of Space Biology (2002- Area of expertise includes deep space 2006) and has been awarded many prizes, exploration, planning and implementation incl. Siebold Prize (1994), Imperial Prizes of space experiments, radiative properties and the Japan Academy prize from the of hot gases and plasmas. Society of Japan Academy in 2001. Nicole Buckley Christer Fuglesang Chief Scientist, Head of Science and International Space Applications Division, in Station and Life the ISS Utilisation and Sciences, CSA Astronaut Support Department of ESA’s Nicole Buckley joined the Canadian Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Space Agency in January 2002 as Operations since May 2010. Program Scientist for Space Life Sciences. She was named Director of Dr. Christer Fuglesang was an active Life and Physical Sciences in July 2004. ESA astronaut for 18 years and Recently, Dr. Buckley was named Chief performed two missions with the Scientist, International Space Station Space Shuttle to ISS in 2006 and Life Sciences. In this capacity, she is and 2009. Fuglesang’s background is responsible for developing and leading in experimental particle physics. a robust life sciences program He has worked at CERN and since 2006 dedicated to mitigating risks associated he is affiliated Professor at KTH, with human space flight. Stockholm.

Berndt Feuerbacher Malcolm Longair President of the ESA-HISPAC Chair International Astronautic Federation Has held many highly and Chair of the respected positions within Human Spaceflight and the fields of physics and Exploration Science astronomy. He was appointed the ninth Advisory Committee (HESAC) of ESA. Astronomer Royal of Scotland in 1980, as well as the Regius Professor of Astronomy, He is retired as Director of the DLR Univ. of Edinburgh, and the director of the Institute of Space Simulation and Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. He was Professor of Space Physics at the head of the Cavendish Laboratory (1997 - University of Bochum, Germany. 2005). He has served on and chaired many His research activities concentrate on international committees, boards and materials science in microgravity and panels, working with both NASA and ESA. small bodies in planetary systems. He He has received much recognition for his initiated the landing probe “Philae” for work over the years, including a CBE in the the Rosetta mission. millennium honours list for his services to astronomy and cosmology. Charles Bolden NASA Administrator

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., began his duties as the twelfth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on July 17, 2009. As Administrator, he leads the NASA team and manages its resources to advance the agency’s missions and goals. Credit: ESA/NASA Credit:

ESA astronaut André Kuipers inside Cupola, 24 December 2011 Credit: K. GertrudCredit:

Museum for Communication, Berlin Salon Corinth – ISS Utilization Exhibition Salon Corinth will host an exhibition featuring experimental hardware and commercial spin-off products related to the scientific utilisation of the ISS. The exhibits are examples of scientific research and applications in different fields: Biomedicine, Exobiology, study of the space environment, material science and biology. The exhibition is complemented by narrative descriptions and during the coffee and lunch breaks of the Symposium experts will be available to provide additional information.

Salon Humboldt – 3D Show For the first 2 days of the Symposium, Salon Humboldt will host a 3D Show including compelling stereoscopic imagery from the ISS commented by various experts and astronauts. Each show will last 15 minutes at the following times: Wednesday 2nd May: 15:15 and 18:15 Thursday 3rd May: 10:10, 11:10, 13:10, 15:10, 16:10, 17:10, 19:00

Salon Humboldt – Internet Café Salon Humboldt will be available to all ISS Symposium participants as an Internet Café. The Wi-Fi code is as follows: Profile: EVENT/ISS Password: Symposium

Social Programme Wednesday 2nd May: Gala dinner at the Museum for Communication 19.15 Departure to the Museum for Communication (situated at walking distance) 19.30 Drinks reception 20.00 Gala dinner 23.30 Finish

Thursday 3rd May: Dinner onboard the Brandenburg boat; a cruise on the River Spree for the perfect introduction to Berlin’s famous sights and varied architecture. 19.15 Gather in the Hilton Hotel lobby 19.30 Departure of coaches to the boat 19.50 Boarding the Brandenburg 20.00 Departure of the Brandenburg and start of the evening cruise 23.00 Return 23.15 Departure of coaches back to the Hilton Hotel

Friday 4th May: Business Buffet with many opportunities to network. 12.30 – 14.00 Business Buffet in the Beletage restaurant, Hilton Hotel www.esa.int www.isssymposium2012.com