Editorial Board for section 'Planetary Sciences'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Associate Editor
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Ctra de Torrejón a Ajalvir, km 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
Interests: habitability; planetary exploration; astrobiology; Mars, planetary protection; brines
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Section Board Member
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-Und Raumfahrt, Institute of Planetary Research, Rutherfordtstrasse 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
Interests: exoplanets; brown dwarfs; love numbers; exoplanet atmospheres
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Interests: space plasma physics; magnetospheric physics; magnetic reconnection; planetary magnetospheres; solar wind-planetary interactions; current sheet dynamics; magnetic flux rope formation

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Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Interests: astrobiology; astrochemistry; chirality; extraterrestrial organics; meteoritics; origin of life; planetary science; prebiotic chemistry; small bodies

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SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Interests: defects and impurities in crystals caused by the incorporation of traces of H2O, CO2 and other gas/fluid components into oxide materials and minerals; proton conductivity; organic chemistry in the solid state, low-z element segregation in the solid state and origin of life; organics in dust grains in the diffuse interstellar medium; valence fluctuations in oxygen anion sublattice in oxide materials and silicate minerals activated by temperature, stress, and UV; semiconductor aspects of mineral and rock physics in relation to earthquake and pre-earthquake phenomena

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Deep Springs College, Big Pine, CA 93513, USA
Interests: Exoplanet formation, exoplanet detection, variable star observation, astronomical image processing, quantum field theory, heavy quark effective field theory, lattice gauge theory.

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Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziale INAF-IAPS, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: planetary science; in situ instrumentation; sample return; small bodies; comets; asteroids; space contamination
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 510275, China
Interests: extrasolar planets; binary stars; high dispersion spectrometer; visual velocity method

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Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Interests: data-driven approaches to characterizing the coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere; applications of advanced analytics to earth and planetary systems, with a particular emphasis in mineral relationships; martian mineralogy via surface missions (CheMin, NASA MSL) and meteorites; crystal chemical behavior and bonding systematics in minerals

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INAF - Institute of Space Astrophysics and Planetology, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: space physics; planetary science; space instrumentation

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Interests: exomoons; atmospheric escape; icy bodies; exoplanet atmospheres

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INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
Interests: Mars robotic and human landing sites; phobos and asteroids surface morphological analyses
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Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Interests: astrobiology; planetary habitability

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Turin Astrophysical Observatory (OATO), Italian National Astrophysics Institute (INAF), 00136 Roma, Italy
Interests: planet formation; planetary architectures; exoplanets; impact processes; planets and satellites; minor bodies; n-body simulations; space missions

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Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: planets; solar system; planetary science; neutral atmosphere of planets; Venus and Mars

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Purple Mountain Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: observation and identification of small solar system bodies; shape determination of asteroid; hazard evaluation and deflection of n ear earth objects
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