Bernard Foing

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About Bernard Foing

Prof Bernard Foing is CEO of LUNEX, partner of EuroSpaceHub, President of Space Renaissance International, Executive Director of International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG), director of EuroMoonMars Earth Space Innovation EMMESI programme, and Prof at Leiden, Riga, IPSA, VU Amsterdam, EPFL, ISU. Full member of Intl Academy of Astronautics. Vice-chair COSPAR exploration panel and SCB commission. Member of IAF committees and fr chair of IAF ITACCUS. He served as ESA Chief Scientist, and elected President of ESTEC Staff Association Committee 2012-2017 (representing 1400 ESTEC colleagues). He performs Space and MoonMars research and MoonVillage studies and activities. He has worked at ESA ESTEC as visiting scientist, staff scientist, Research Unit Leader, Head of Research Division, Chief scientist and Senior Exploration Officer. He has been the lead Project scientist, father of SMART-1 first european mission to the Moon, from conception in 1996 to lunar final impact in 2006. He has led studies of lunar orbiters and landers, and technology developments. With ILEWG, he has been promoting international collaborative projects, the preparation for a global robotic village, and a human International Lunar Base. Co-investigator of space missions instruments such as TRC, SOHO, XMM, Mars-Express, COROT, BIOPAN, Chandrayaan-1, Expose/International Space Station, ExoMars. He worked 3 years with the European Southern Observatory ESO La Silla and French embassy in Chile and joined the French National Centre for Research CNRS. After studies at Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Ecole Normale Supérieure Education & Technology (ENSET Cachan now ENS Paris-Saclay), a national competition as Agrégé Professor of Physics, he obtained a PhD in Astrophysics and Space Techniques using a sounding rocket experiment (France CNRS and US New Mexico, Boulder CU, Harvard Observatory).> Citations to over 990 articles (including 240 refereed papers): & hl=en