eROSITA Team and Partners

eROSITA

Principal Investigator: Andrea Merloni

Spokesperson: Mara Salvato

Ombudsperson: Matthias Steinmetz (AIP)

Mediators: Manami Sasaki (FAU), Georg Lamer (AIP)

Steering Committee (StC):
The role of the StC is to form recommendations of German institutes concerning scientific, technical and management aspects, in order to help the PI and the agengy to take position in related negotiations.

StC Members:

Marcus Brüggen (UHH)

Andrea Merloni (MPE)

Thomas Mernik (DLR)

Kirpal Nandra (MPE, Head of Energy Group)

Peter Predehl, Principal Investigator: 2008-2020 (MPE)

Andrea Santangelo (IAAT)

Axel Schwope (AIP)

Jörn Wilms (FAU)

Collaboration Coordination Board

The Collaboration Coordination Board (CCB) advises and supports the PI concerning scientific matters and collaboration policies. It is chaired by the Spokesperson.

CCB Members:

Esra Bulbul (MPE), Konrad Dennerl (MPE), Victor Doroshenko (IAAT), Michael Freyberg (MPE), Frank Haberl (MPE), Andrea Merloni (MPE), Kirpal Nandra (MPE), Peter Predehl (MPE), Miriam Ramos Ceja (MPE), Thomas Reiprich (Bonn), Jan Robrade (UHH), Mara Salvato (MPE), Manami Sasaki (FAU), Axel Schwope (AIP), Jochen Weller (LMU), Joern Wilms (FAU)

Operations Team at MPE

Miriam Ramos-Ceja (Operations Manager)

Walter Bornemann, Diogo Coutinho, Susanne Friedrich, Roland Gaida, Alain Gueguen, Walter Kink, Chandreyee Maitra, Siegfried Müller, Ian Stewart

Ground Segment and Software Development Team

Miriam Ramos-Ceja (Ground Segment Coordinator, MPE)

Harald Baumgartner (MPE), Thomas Boller (MPE), Vadim Burwitz (MPE), Stefan Czesla (UHH), Konrad Dennerl (Calibration WG Chair, MPE), Michael Freyberg (Background and in-orbit calibration Coordinator, MPE), Peter Friedrich (MPE), Susanne Friedrich (MPE), Antonis Georgakakis (National Observatory of Athens), Alain Gueguen (MPE), Frank Haberl (MPE), Gisela Hartner (MPE), Ingo Kreykenbohm (FAU), Georg Lamer (AIP), Chandreyee Maitra (MPE), Norbert Meidinger (MPE), Elmar Pfefferman (MPE), Miriam Ramos-Ceja (MPE), Jan Robrade (Mission Planning Coordinator, UHH), Jeremy Sanders (MPE), Ian Stewart (MPE)

Near Real Time Analysis (NRTA)

Developers: Ingo Kreykenbohm, Jonathan Knies, Felix Schmidt, Phillip Weber (FAU)

Shift Leaders: Ingo Kreykenbohm (FAU), Arne Rau (MPE), Jörn Wilms (FAU)

Shifters: Ralf Ballhausen (FAU), Katrin Berger (FAU), David Bogensberger (MPE), Stefania Carpano (MPE), Lorenzo Ducci (IAAT), Andrea Gokus (FAU), Iuliia Grotova (MPE), Frank Haberl (MPE), Steven Haemmerich (FAU), Christian Kirsch (FAU), Ole König (FAU), Zhu Liu (MPE), Maximilian Lorenz (FAU), Chandreyee Maitra (MPE), Sara Saeedi (FAU), Felix Schmidt (FAU), Jakob Stierhof (FAU), Philipp Thalhammer (FAU)

Data Release Coordinators

Miriam Ramos-Ceja, Johan Comparat, Susanne Friedrich, Andrea Merloni, Mara Salvato (all MPE)

Past contributors to the Instrument and Software development teams:

Robert Andritschke, Tomas Blasi, Heinrich Bräuninger, Hermann Brunner (former Ground Segment Coordinator), Bernd Budau, Thomas Burghardt, Kurt Dittich, Tom Dwelly, Josef Eder, Hans Eibl, Valentin Emberger, Tanja Eraerds, Maria Fürmetz, Armin Goldbrunner, Christoph Grossberger, Olaf Hälker, Katinka Hartmann, Franz Huber, Andreas von Kienlin, Benjamin Mican, Franz Oberauer, Christian Rohé, Thomas Rupprecht, Fritz Schrey, Franz Soller, Valeri Yaroshenko.

Institutional Partners:

Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics. Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen/Nürnberg (FAU)

Hamburger Sternwarte. Universität Hamburg (UHH)

Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen (IAAT)

Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Postdam (AIP)

Universitäts-Sternwarte München (LMU)

Argelander-Institute for Astronomie and University of Bonn

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Space Research Institute Moscow (IKI)

ROSCOSMOS, Moscow

Lavochkin Association, Moscow (Russia)

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