Belgian Institute for Space
Aeronomy
3 av. Circulaire/Ringlaan 3
B-1180 Brussels
Belgium
www.aeronomie.be
Tel: +32 2 373 0404
VP:
365
Fax: +32 2 374 8423
•Federal Institute of Belgian government
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Royal Observatory of Belgium
Royal Meteorology Institute
Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence
• Created in 1964
• Main tasks are public service and research in the field of the space
aeronomy
• Data knowledge, gathered using ground-based, balloon, rockets and
satellites observations within the framework of physics and
chemistry of the atmosphere and outer space.
Organization chart
Magnetosphere
Infra Red
Ionosphere coupling Mass spectrometry
Solar wind
Troposphere
UV
Stratosphere
Limb sounding
Chemical weather
Solar irradiance
Space weather
Planetary aeronomy BUSOC: Belgian User
Support and Operation
Centre
Maintenance and hosting of space weather portal and SPENVIS
BISA / IASB / BIRA
• 140 employees
• Space Physics section:
– 4 permanent staff
members: Johan De
Keyser, Viviane Pierrard,
Hervé Lamy and Norma
Crosby
– 11 research fellows and
postdocs
– Modelling and data
analysis
– Solar wind,
magnetosphere, aurora,
space radiations,
plasmasphere, ionosphere,
meteors, comets
Personnel in the FP7 project
Scientists
• Viviane Pierrard WP5
• 1 scientist to be hired
• Johan De Keyser (Head of Space Physics)
the Space Physics team
• F. Darrouzet for CLUSTER, Hervé Lamy, Norma Crosby …
• S. Calders and M. Kruglanski for Space Weather Portal (Services)
Administration
• Etienne Ladrière (FP7 Project support)
• Marc Delancker (Account manager)
• Noël Parmentier (Director BISA)
Collaboration with
S. Benck and J. Cabrera for Space Radiations (UCL)
• Université Catholique de Louvain