Biography
of Dr. Jochen Kissel as of 1995Biography
of Dr. Jochen Kissel as of 1995| Since 1997 | Investigator for the CIDA experiment of the NASA mission CONTOUR to intercept three different comets (a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the 'in situ' analysis of individual dust particles). |
| Since 1996 | Corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). |
| Since 1996 | Pricipal Investigator for the experiment COSIMA of the ESA comet rendezvous mission ROSETTA (a medium to high mass resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the 'in situ' analysis of individual collected cometary dust particles) . |
| Since 1995 | Principal Investigator for the CIDA experiment of the NASA mission STARDUST to intercept a comet and to measure interstellar dust (a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the 'in situ' analysis of individual dust particles). |
| 1992-1993 | Member of the ESA working group for the definition of an alternate ESA-only ROSETTA mission. |
| 1986-1992 | Principal investigator for the experiment CoMA of the comet-mission CRAF. (High mass resolution time-of-flight mass-spectrometer for the 'in situ' Analysis of picogram dust-particles.) |
| 1985-1990 | Principal investigator (together with a Soviet and a Finnish colleague) for the Experiment LIMA-D onboard both PHOBOS-probes of the soviet space agency Interkosmos. (time-of-flight mass-spectrometer for laser-generated ions at large distances). |
| Since 1981 | Principal investigator for the experiments PIA onboard the ESA probe GIOTTO and PUMA1/2 onboard the soviet missions VEGA 1/2. (time-of-flight mass-spectrometers for femtogram dust particles). |
| 1978/1979 | USA visit as guest researcher at: TRW-Systems, Redondo Beach, California and Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, Colorado |
| 1979 | Serving on the NASA Comet Science Working Group Serving on the NASA Galileo Meteoroid Protection Working Group |
| Since 1977 |
Co-Investigator for the dust experiment onboard the ESA
Mission ULYSSES Co-Investigator for the dust experiment onboard NASA Mission GALILEO |
| 1976-1988 | Head of the Dust Accelerator Laboratory at the MPI f-r Kernphysik, Heidelberg |
| Since 1971 | Research Associate at MPI f. Kernphysik, Heidelberg |
| 1971-1976 | Co-Investigator for the dust experiment E10 onboard German / NASA solar probe HELIOS |
| 1971 | Co-worker for the Ion- and Neutral-gas-mass-spectrometer onboard the German Aeronomy-satellite AEROS PhD at the UNI Heidelberg (Germany) Thesis on ions in the earth's upper atmosphere. |
| Since 1968 | Member of the German Physical Society |
| 1967 | M Sc at the UNI(TH) Karlsruhe (Germany) Thesis on the nuclear photo effect |
| 1962-1967 | Study at the UNI(TH) Karlsruhe (Germany) |
| 22.7.1943 | Born at Heidelberg (Germany) |
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