Advances in Space Research : Top Reviewers of 2015

Advances in Space Research: Top Reviewers of 2015

Advances in Space Research (ASR), as with any established scientific journal, insists on a rigorous peer-review process to maintain the integrity and quality of its published papers. An essential part of this process is the reviewer, spending his or her valuable time using unique expertise to evaluate the scientific quality of a manuscript and help the Editor make a fair and timely decision.

To further highlight the vital importance of reviewers to ASR quality, the Editors have selected their 10 top reviewers for the year 2015, taking into account criteria such as the number and the quality of the referee reports performed during this year. By publishing the names and short biographies of these selected reviewers in this issue of Space Research Today, we would like to acknowledge their valuable efforts. As an additional token of appreciation, these reviewers are offered an Amazon voucher by Elsevier, and their names will also be acknowledged on the journal homepage of ASR.

We also feel deeply obliged to all ASR reviewers who have contributed this past year who are not mentioned here, and we sincerely thank all of them for bringing the journal up to its current scientific standard.

Pascal Willis, ASR Editor-in-Chief Jos? Stoop, ASR Publisher (Elsevier)

Justin Bray

Justin Bray received his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Adelaide in 2013, working in close association with staff at the Australia Telescope National Facility, and has subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton and the University of Manchester. His primary research interests are in astroparticle physics, and the radio emission from high-energy particle cascades. He also has a strong background in observational radio astronomy and interferometry, having developed techniques for analysis of radio polarisation data, ionospheric modelling, and coherent pulse detection.

Gerard G?mez

Gerard G?mez received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona (Catalunya) in 1981, under the supervision of Prof. Carles Sim?. Since 1988 is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is Associated Editor of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy and member of the Reial Acad?mia de Ci?ncies i Arts de Barcelona. His research areas are Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics, and has been pioneer in the introduction of Dynamical Systems tools in Astrodynamics and its application to several mission design problems

Karel Kudela

Zbysek Mosna

Carmen Pardini

After graduating in Physics at the

University of Pisa in 1986, Carmen Pardini

got a post-doctoral fellowship in mission

analysis and astrodynamics at the CNUCE

(now ISTI) Institute of the Italian National

Research Council (CNR) in Pisa. Since

then, she has served as a research scientist

in the Space Flight Dynamics Laboratory

of ISTI/CNR. Her areas of research include

astrodynamics, mission analysis and

design, satellite re-entry predictions,

software development, space debris

modelling and mitigation. She has

provided technical support for flight

dynamics to various space missions (e.g.

Columbus, STS-52/IRIS/LAGEOS-2,

STS-59/X-SAR,

STS-68/X-SAR,

MITA/NINA, BeppoSAX) and to the

national civil protection authorities for re-

entry predictions of potentially dangerous

space objects. Since 1998, she is the Italian

re-entry technical point of contact for the

re-entry test campaigns of the Inter-

Agency Space Debris Coordination

Committee (IADC) and, since 2000, she is

representative of the Italian Space Agency

(ASI) in the IADC Working Group 2

(Environment and Data Base). She has

been member of the program committee

and/or co-chair of space debris symposium

sessions in various international

conferences,

e.g.

International

Astronautical Congress (IAC), COSPAR

Scientific Assembly, European Conference

for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS). She is

currently member of the IAA (International

Academy of Astronautics) Committee on

Space Debris and the IAASS (International

Association for the Advancement of Space

Safety) Aviation Debris and Meteoroids

Integrated Risk Evaluation (ADMIRE)

team. She is author, or co-author, of more

than one hundred publications in

international journals and conference

proceedings, and more than fifty technical

reports.

Sergei A. Pulinets

Ian Richardson

College, in 1983. His research interests include: solar energetic particles; cosmic rays; solar wind structures, in particular interplanetary coronal mass ejections, corotating interaction regions, and longterm variations; geomagnetic storms; and energetic particle acceleration at comets and in the geomagnetic tail. He was the AGU Secretary for Solar and Heliospheric Physics from 2010 to 2014

Peter J.G. Teunissen

Ian Richardson is an Associate Research Scientist at the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Imperial College, London, UK in 1978 and Ph.D. in cosmic rays and space physics, also from Imperial

Peter Teunissen is Professor of Geodesy and Satellite Navigation at Curtin University (CU), Australia, and Delft University Technology (DUT), the Netherlands. He received his Doctorate degree in Geodesy from DUT in 1985. He is inventor of the LAMBDA method and has 25 years of experience in the field of satellite navigation. He currently heads CU's GNSS Research Centre where his team's research is on developing theory, models and algorithms for high-accuracy geospatial applications of new global and regional satellite navigation systems. The focus is hereby on developing carrierphase based precise positioning concepts for use in the Australian national positioning infrastructure. Professor Teunissen has authored numerous journal papers and various textbooks in his field. He serves on the Editorial Boards of

several journals and he is past Editor-inChief of the Journal of Geodesy. He has an Honorary Degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the Institute of Navigation (ION) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).

Pieter Visser

the European Space Agency (ESA), and several positions for the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). He chaired the COSPAR Panel on Satellite Dynamics from 2004 to 2012. He is Fellow of the IAG and full member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). Currently, he is member of the ESA Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC).

Ivan V. Zimovets

Pieter Visser is chair holder and head of the section Astrodynamics and Space missions at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. His primary fields of expertise are precise orbit determination of satellites and space geodesy. After receiving his PhD degree in 1992 in Delft, he spent one year as exchange visitor at the Center for Space Research of the University of Texas at Austin. He then returned to his Alma Mater. Over the years he has been involved in several earth observation missions aiming at observing sea level change, melting ice caps, gravity and magnetic fields. He has held many mission and science advisory positions for

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