2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
“Acting for Sustainability and Resilience”
7 - 12 July, 2024 • Athens, Greece
Professional background: Research Associate, 1965-1966; Assistant Professor of Physics, 1966-1968; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1968-present). Supervisor (Space Physics Section) and Principal Staff member (since 1972), 1968-1974. Group Supervisor (Space Physics and Instrumentation Group), 1974-1981. Chief Scientist (Space Department), 1980-1990. Head (Space Department), 1991-2004. Emeritus Head, 2004-present. Supervisor, Office of Space Research and Technology, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (2006-present). Greece’s Alternate Head Delegate to the ESA Council (12/06-09/10). Chair of the National Council of Research and Technology of Greece (9/10-12/13).
Relevant experience: As Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I), designed, built, flown and analyzed data from 21 instruments on NASA/ESA space missions, 1963 to present, as follows: PI--Cassini-Huygens MIMI instrument,1990-2015; Voyager 1 and 2 LECP instrument 1971-present. Explorer 47 and Explorer 50 (IMP-7 and 8) CPME, 1968-1996. AMPTE, 1973-1989. Lead Co-I or Co-I- Galileo EPD, 1977-2003; Ulysses HI-SCALE 1978-2009; Geotail EPIC, 1985-present; ACE, ULEIS and EPAM, 1988-present; MESSENGER EPS, 1998-present; Mariner 3, 4, 5 TRD (Mars and Venus) 1963-68; Explorer 33 and Explorer 35 EPD, 1965-1970. Injun 4 SSD, 1963-1966; Injun 5 SSD, 1966-1971; OGO-4 SSD, 1966-1970; Collaborating Scientist, New Horizons, 2002-present. Also, numerous NSF grants, 1970-1990. Has designed and built instruments that have flown to all nine classical planets (only scientist to do so).
Member, Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences, and Chair, Committee on Solar and Space Physics 1983-1986; Member, NASA Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee (SSAAC), 1987-1990; NASA Inter-Agency Consultative Group for Space Science (IACG), 1987-1993; NASA Discovery Program Science Working Group, 1989-1992. Member or Chair of over 40 committees, Commissions, Working Groups at US and International level.
Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature, followed by Modern Greek, at Cambridge. Since his teens he has been a passionate admirer of all things Greek and an enthusiastic traveller around southern Europe and the Mediterranean.
For thirty years until his retirement he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, and is now Emeritus. He is also Chair of the British School at Athens, one of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI) supported by the British Academy. In 2023 he received honorary citizenship of Greece and an honorary doctorate from the University of Patras and in 2024 is to be awarded a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours for a long and distinguished academic career and books which have helped build strong, durable links between the UK and Greece.
He is the author of several books of non-fiction, one novel, and several translations of fiction and poetry. Among his books, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation (Allen Lane, 2019) was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (CUP, 2013) for the Duff Cooper Prize. His other books include An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature (OUP, 1990) and George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel. A Biography (YUP, 2003). All four were winners of the prestigious Runciman Award for best book on Greece and the Hellenic world. In Greece his work has won the Anagnostis, Daedalus, Epilogos and Vardinoyannis prizes.
Roderick is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Fellow of King’s College (FKC), and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic, a distinction conferred on him by the President of Greece, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, in 2019.
His most recent book, The Greeks: A Global History, was published by Faber in the UK and Basic Books in the USA in November 2021, and is now available in paperback from both publishers.
Dr. Rune Floberghagen has 24 years of experience at the European Space Agency, in various positions and establishments, including space project development, scientific preparation, mission management and data exploitation. He has also managed the operations of the full fleet of missions in the Directorate of Science. Dr. Floberghagen has a background in Aerospace Engineering as well as in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. A major part of his career has been dedicated to the research missions of the Earth Observation Programme, such as GOCE, Swarm and Aeolus. Since 1 September 2022 he has held the post of Head of the Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Department in the Directorate for Earth Observation Programmes.