Feature and Invited Speakers

Keynote #1
Professor of Planetary Habitability & Astrobiology
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Public Speaker #1
Now a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Chris Impey was born in Edinburgh and gained his PhD at the University Edinburgh. He shall give a public talk linked to his popular book "Beyond: Our Future in Space".

Chair to Public Event
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Professor of Astrophysics, Univ. of Edinburgh
and The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK.
Director, German Centre for Cosmological Lensing
Cosmology and gravitational lensing. Science communication and public engagement.

Invited Panel Speaker
Professor of Planetary Science
University of Manchester, UK.
The prehistory, formation and evolution of the solar system and the bodies within it.
Isotope geochemistry and comochemistry.

Invited Panel Speaker
Professor, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco.
Director, GAIA Laboratory
President, ATTARIK Foundation
Meteoritics and Planetary Science. (scholar)

Invited Panel Speaker
President, Europlanet Society
Professor of Molecular Physics, Univ. of Kent, UK.
Molecular processes. Interstellar medium, planets and other solar system bodies. Aiding progress of cooperative, inclusive international communities.

Invited Speaker
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Universite de Bordeaux, France.
Solar System Formation, Exoplanet orgins and orbital dynamics, small bodies (comets, asteroids, interstellar objects).

Invited Speaker
Post-doctoral Fellow
German Aerospace Centre, Berlin, Germany.
Extreme environments, habitability of Mars and the icy moons, biosignature detection, Raman and other spectroscopy techniques

Invited Speaker
F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher
Université de Liège, Belgium.
Exoplanet detection and characterisation.
CHEOPS. SPECULOOS.

Invited Speaker
Associate Professor
Head, Planetary Remote Sensing
Physical Research Laboratory
Ahmedabad, India.
Geological evolution of planetary bodies using remote sensing data. (scholar)

Invited Speaker
Senior Researcher
Cosmological Visionaries Project
Theology & Religious Studies
Kings College London, UK.
Philosophy of Ethics.

Invited Speaker
Ernest Rutherford Fellow
School of Physical Sciences
The Open University, UK.
Modelling planetary atmospheres in 3D, particularly those of exoplanets.
Ariel mission.