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Bernard Foing
He is the father and science director of the first European mission to the Moon SMART-1 (http://sci.esa.int/smart-1/). Curriculum: Ecole Normale Supérieure of Education & Technology, Professor Agrégé of Physical sciences, Habilitation to direct research, France. PhD using a sounding rocket ultraviolet camera experiment at CNRS and research stays in the US. 3 years in Chile as astronomer for French embassy and ESO European Southern Observatory. Permanent researcher at CNRS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (from 1986). Since 1989, at ESA Space Science Department/ESTEC, as study scientist (SIMURIS, MORO, EuroMoon), Research Unit Coordinator, SMART-Project scientist, Head of Research Division, Chief scientist and Senior Research Coordinator. He has served as Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science in various universities in US and Europe. He has been president of ILEWG (Int'l Lunar Exploration Working Group) and now serves as Executive Director (http:/sci.esa.int/ilewg/). He has been Co-I of space projects TRC, SOHO, XMM, BIOPAN, SMART-1, Mars Express, COROT, ISS/Expose, Chandrayaan-1. He is member of the Int'l Academy of Astronautics. He published 50 articles in lunar/planetary, solar/stellar physics and astrobiology. He edited 15 books and organized over 40 international conferences.
