science team
The Science Team plays a key role in proposing and developing transformative science cases and in shaping the science-driven requirements for the WST.
The WST project is committed to an open-science policy, allowing any professional astronomer to join the Science Team .
Currently, more than 800 members from 41 countries across five continents have joined the team. The Science Team has led the publication of a first version of the WST Science White Paper, which already shows the transformative scientific impact that the WST will have on a very broad range of scientific topics.
The Science Team is fully engaged in further developing the science drivers for the WST to be published soon.
The Science Team is led by the project scientist, Vincenzo Mainieri, and is organised into five working groups:
Vincenzo Mainieri
PROJECT SCIENTIST
European Southern Observatory Garching, Germany
Richard I. Anderson
Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Observatoire de Sauverny, Switzerland
Cyrielle Opitom
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Paula Sanchez Saez
European Southern Observatory Garching, Germany
Vanessa Hill
Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, Universitè Cote d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, France
Rodolfo Smiljanic
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland
Eline Tolstoy
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Sebastian Kamann
John Moores University Liverpool, United Kingdom
Anna McLeod
Durham University, United Kingdom
Martin M. Roth
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, Germany
Francesco Belfiore
European Southern Observatory Garching, Germany
Richard Ellis
University College London, United Kingdom
Mark Sargent
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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