Science Team
The HRMOS science team contains more than 100 researchers from more than 20 international institutes. It contributed to the first version of the White Paper, and is working on the new one.Participation in the Science Team is open to the entire international astronomical community.
Distribution of the HRMOS Science Team (in red - August 2025) - Created with mapchart.net
Distribution of the HRMOS Science Team (in red - August 2025) - Created with mapchart.net
Members of the Science Team (August 2025)
WG Nucleocosmochronology
Leads: Vanessa Hill & Georges Kordopatis (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Nice, France)
Team Members: Tadafumi Matsuno, Gabriele Cescutti, Riano Giribaldi, Mathieu Van der Swaelmen, Sophie Van Eck, Donatella Romano, Thibault Merle, Yuan-Sen Ting, Keith Hawkins, Clare Worley, Diego Vescovi, Marta Molero, Almudena Arcones, José Schiappacasse, Sergio Cristallo, Beatriz Barbuy, Heitor Ernandes, Federico Rizzuti, Arianna Vasini, Camilla Hansen, Chiaki Kobayashi, Federico Sestito, Sven Budler, Terese Thidemann Hansen, Ana Escorza
WG Hierarchical Galaxy Formation in the Local Group
Leads: Asa Skuladottir (Università di Firenze, Italy) & Maria Benito (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain)
Team Members: José Maria Arroyo-Polonio, Giuseppina Battaglia, Michele Bellazzini, Alessio Mucciarelli, Pascale Jablonka, Martina Rossi, Maria Benito
WG Exoplanets, Young Stars and Magnetic Fields
Leads: Robin Jeffries (University of Keele, UK) & Sergio Sousa (Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco - CAUP, Porto, Portugal)
Team Members: John R. Barnes, Brad Carter, Maria Tsantaki, Monica Rainer, Francesco Borsa, Camilla Danielski, Elisa Delgado Mena, H. Jens Hoeijmakers, Lorenzo Pino, Katia Biazzo, Brunella Nisini, Benjamin Montet, Diego Turrini, Elenia Pacetti, Eugenio Schisano, Danae Polychroni, Sergio Molinari, Sergio Fonte, Michele Zusi, João Lima, Jorge Gameiro, Laura Affer, Mario Damasso, Andrew Collier Cameron, Moira Jardine, Neda Heidari, Robert Yates, Romolo Politi, Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski, Paolo Giacobbe, Sebastiano Ledda, Belinda Nicholson, Paolo Simonetti, Fatemeh Majidi, Krzysztof Helminiak, Heleri Ramler, Robert Yates, Marco Pignatari, Alesandra Lehtmets, Luca Malavolta, Valerio Nascimbeni, Mario Montalto, Fatemeh Majidi
WP Stellar Physics, Star Clusters and Asteroseismology
Leads: Germano Sacco (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy), Valentina D'Orazi (U. Roma, Italy), Andrea Miglio (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Team Members: Nadege Lagarde, Martina Baratella, Angela Bragaglia, Fabiola Marino, Arnas Drazdauskas, Mark Gieles, Alice Zocchi, Lorenzo Spina, Grazina Tautvaisiene, Sarah Martell, Valentina D’Orazi, Holger Baumgardt, Antonio Frasca, Devika Kamath, Elena Franciosini, Tiago Campante, Silvia Vicente, Anna McLeod, Giada Casali, Maria Pia Di Mauro, Henryka Netzel-Iłkiewicz, Carlos Viscasillas Vazquez, Xiaoting Fu, Evan Kirby, Roberta Carini
WP Origin of Elements and Nucleosynthesis
Leads: Rodolfo Smiljanic (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland) & Emma Fernandez Alvar (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain)
Team Members: (included in WG Nucleocosmochronology)
WP The Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium
Lead: Dinko Milakovic (INAF-Osservatorio di Trieste, Italy)
Team Members: Michael Murphy, Louise Welsh, Aldric Wong, Ryan Cooke, Francesco Damiani
WP Atomic Data
Lead: Maria Teresa Belmonte (U. Valladolid, Spain), Christian Clear (Imperial College London, UK)
Team Members: Henrik Hartman, Pascal Quinet, Patrick Palmeri, Carlos Allende, Jacob Ward, Maria Tsantaki, Paul Barklem
WP Model Atmospheres
Lead: Anish Amarsi (U. Uppsala, Sweden), Riano Giribaldi (INAF)
Team Members: Cis Lagae, Sema Caliskan, Paul Barklem