Webinar ESA's PLATO Mission November 25, 2020
Submitted by plato-project on Thu, 02/04/2021 - 23:03
Professor Dr. Heike Rauer is director of the Institute of Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) talks about PLATO mission at International.
Professor Dr. Heike Rauer is director of the Institute of Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and professor for planetary geophysics at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2013, she is PI of the PLATO mission and a Co-PI of the ground-based Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). She was a member of the science council of the French-European mission CoRoT, the first mission dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets, and participated in ESA´s Rosetta mission before focusing on exoplanet science. Heike Rauer obtained her degree in physics in 1986 and subsequently performed her Ph.D. and habilitation in the field of planetary sciences.
