Prof. Lundin  represents the single point formal interface with the ESA Mars Express Project Office for scientific and general matters.  He will supervise all experiment definition, instrument design and development,  and support for mission operations.  The Professor will also be responsible for supplying the experiment, support equipment, documentation, and required software.

     His experience includes be PI for about ten hot plasma experiments using the sounding rockets, PROMICS/Prognoz-7, PROMICS/Prognoz-8, the hot plasma experiment on Viking, ASPERA/Phobos, ASPER-C/Mars-96, IMI/Planet-B, and ICA/Rosetta.  Prof. Lundin was also the Co-I on hot plasma experiments for Freja, Equator-S, and Cluster and Project Scientist for the Swedish Freja satellite.

     Dr. Barabash participated as Co-I in the Mars plasma experiments ASPERA/Phobos-1, ASPERA/Phobos-2, PROMICS/Interball-Auroral, PROMICS/Interball-Tail and ASPERA-C/Mars-96.  He has also acted as PI for the ENA instrument PIPPI/Astrid-1 and the ENA detector DINA/nanosatellite Munin.  His experience also includes instrument design, data analysis, and theory.  He will assume overall responsibility for coordinating the ASPERA-3 development and will be the Hardware-providing Co-I.

     Mr. Gimholt has participated in several experiment development efforts such as Freja, Astrid-1, Mars-96, Planet-B and Rosetta.  He will coordinate the hardware and software efforts of all segments of ASPERA-3 and interface with the responsible engineers at the Co-I institutions.  The Experiment Manager is the single point formal interface with the ESA Mars Express Project Office for technical matters.

Scientific Personnel

Experience:
     Plasma experiments HEOS-2/S-202 (tests, management), EGD/ISEE-2 (project manager), plasma composition experiment for the NASA cometary mission (design), plasma composition experiment JPA/Giotto (project manager), ISO/LWS-DPU (digital electronics design), Equator-s/CIS (management and design), SAC-B/ISENA (project manager), and TSS-1R/RENE (team member).

Experience:
     Designer of FIS (Field Ionization mass Spectrometer) and EIS (Electron Impact mass Spectrometer) sensors for the VEGA probes to Comet Halley. Project manager for the development of the EUV Imager for NASA's IMAGE mission.

Experience:
     Design, simulation, development, and calibration of plasma instrumentation.  Data analysis and data analysis software.  Design and development of the calibration facility.  PI for the ion spectrometers TRIPLET and VDP/Interball.  Co-I on the plasma analyzers BIFRAM/Intershock, CORALL/Interball, FONEMA/Mars-96 and ENA detector DINA/Swedish nanosatellite Munin.

Experience:
     Design, development, calibration, and flight operations of electron and ions instruments on UARS/MEPS, TSS/SPES, DMSP/SSJ/4, and numerous sounding rockets.

Experience:
     Deputy PI in RAPID/Cluster, and Co-I in CAPS/Cassini, PEACE/Cluster, and Cammice/GGS/POLAR.  Co-I and hardware contributor to a number of recent ENA Imaging Missions, including GGS/POLAR Ceppad, ISENA/SAC-B, and MENA/IMAGE.

Experience:
     Development of energetic neutral atom detectors and imagers since 1979.  PI for the neutral gas mass analyzers for Soviet VEGA mission to Comet Halley.  Original instrument lead of the High Energy Neutral Atom imager for NASA's IMAGE Mission.  Co-I on CELIAS/SOHO, MIMI/Cassini, and HENA/IMAGE.

Experience:
     Data analysis of ion mass spectrometer Phobos/SPERA, analysis of ENA production at Mars.

Experience:
     Data analysis of ion mass spectrometer Phobos/ASPERA, Co-I on ion and ENA spectrometer Mars-96/ASPERA-C (leader of the FMI participation, DPU H/W and S/W): Co-I on ENA imager Astrid-1/PIPPI).

Experience:
     Theory and modeling of the ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling processes.  Participation in the data analysis in the DE, AMPTE/CCE programs.  Interdisciplinary Scientist in the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetic and Dynamics (TIMED) mission.  Specific research areas include, within others, neutral atom and ion precipitation and loss model for ring current decay.

Experience:
     Scientific analysis and interpretation of particle and magnetometer data from ULYSSES and GALILEO.  Science team member of the MIMI instrument on CASSINI.

Experience:
     Co-PI of the ion composition experiment CAMMICE on POLAR and the magnetosphere imaging instrument MIMI on CASSINI, leading Co-I on the TOF-mass spectrometer RTOF/ROSINA on ROSETTA, Co-I on in-situ and remote sensing of plasmas on the AMPTE, PHOBOS, CRRES, GALILEO, ULYSSES, GEOTAIL, SOHO, POLAR, and CLUSTER 2 GIOTTO missions.  Scientific analysis of in-situ ion composition and energetic ion data.

Experience:
     Theory, modeling, and data analysis concentrated on the solar wind interaction with the weakly magnetized planets, Venus and Mars.  Responsible for Pioneer Venus magnetometer data analysis.  Co-I on two POLAR experiments.  She is also a member of the ion-neutral mass spectrometer facility instrument team on Cassini.

Experience:
     Co-I on Phobos, Freja, Mars-96, and Planet-B.  Project Scientist and PI on Astrid-1, Astrid-2, and Munin.  Co-I on the Ion Composition Analyzer on Rosetta.  Experienced in managing large collaborative projects and design and calibration of plasma analyzers.

Experience:
     Co-I on plasma experiments ISEE-2/EGD (scientific data analysis), INTERBALL/OPERA (software and EGSE), TSS-1,and TSS-1R/TEMAC.  PI on the ENA instrument ISENA/SAC-b.

Experience:
     Theory and analysis of data on energetic charged particles and ENA imaging.  Co-I on Pioneer 10/11:Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra Experiment, Galileo/EPD, Ulysses/SPECAM, Geotail/EPIC, Cassini/INCA, TWINS, and Astrid/Energetic neutral atom imagers.

Experience:
     PI for the UV intensifiers in the Auroral Imager for Viking and the EUV Imager on IMAGE.  Co-I on UVS/Voyager and UVS/EUV/Galileo.  Development of advanced photon-counting array detectors for eight Shuttle experiments, an EUV-FUV telescope to study stars, and the Jupiter system.

Experience:
     Instrument design, data analysis, and project management.  Co-I on various space missions including ARCAD 1,2, and 3, ISEE-1 and -2, Giotto, Mars-96, MOM, MGS, and Cluster.  PI on the two Interball satellites.

Experience:
     Analysis of data from rocket flights as well as the ISIS, DE,,NOAA, Viking, and UARS satellites.  Co-I on UARS and Cluster.  PI for particle detectors on PULSAUR II, four ARIA (Atmospheric Response In Aurora) campaigns, and those being built for the Svalbard Cusp Transient Features Campaign to be launched late in 1997.

Experience:
     PI and Co-I on a large number of NASA, NOAA, DoD, and European research and operational satellites including acting as PI on Galileo/EPD and Geotail/EPIC particle detectors.

Experience:
     PI for the plasma instruments on DE-2, PEM/UARS, plasma analyzers on Giotto, TSS-1, TSS-1R, numerous sounding rockets, and on AFGL data analysis contracts.  Co-I on electron and ion spectrometers for ISIS-1/2 DE-1, and numerous sounding rockets.  His responsibilities in all of these programs have included instrument development and data analysis.

Experience:
     Co-I on the experiments SWICS and EPAC on ULYSSES, PROMICS on Interball, RAPID on Cluster 2, and ROSINA on Rosetta.  Scientific data analysis and interpretation of particle and magnetometer data from GEOS, Viking, Ulysses, Polar and Galileo.

Experience:
     Analysis of data from Magsat, Viking, Freja, and Ulysses spacecraft.  Co_i for IMI instrument for Planet-B spacecraft (test and calibration).  Analytical theories and MHD.

Technical Personnel

Experience:
     Electronics and mechanics design, vacuum and cryogenic technology, particle detector development/design/testing, and project management.  Leading electrical engineer of ASPERA-C/Mars-96, IMIS/Planet-B, IMI/Freja, PIPPI/Astrid-1, MEDUSA/Astrid-2.  Quality Assurance Manager for the ICA/Rosetta. Overall management of the thermal-vacuum and calibration facilities at IRF and test coordination for Astrid, Freja, and Cassini (sub-units).

Experience:
     Space plasma instruments (all aspects), project management.  More that 25 years experience in space projects starting from ESRO-4.  At the present, Technical Manger of the ICA experiment for the ESA Rosetta mission.

Experience:
     Development, design, and testing of particle detecting instruments and ground support equipment, including design of electronics and mechanical systems and project manager.  Participated as lead electrical engineer, project assurance manager or experiment manager in satellite projects such as Interball-1,2 & 3, Viking, Phobos-1&2, Freja, Mars-96,Rosetta, and national sounding rocket projects.

Experience:
     Digital electronics design.  Participation in the projects Phobos/ASPERA (memory unit), Interball/PROMICS-3 (part of the DPU electronics), Mar-96/ASPERA-C (DPU), Astrid-1(data compression unit), Rosetta/ICA&LAP (DPU), and Rosetta Lander/CDMS (memory unit).

Experience:
     Flight software development and data Compression.  Participation in the projects Mars-96/ASPERA-C (design, coding, and tests of flight software), Astrid-1 (data compression software), and Startdust/CIDA (flight software).

Experience:
     Electronics packaging, vacuum technology, and particle detector design and testing.  Participation in programs UARS, GGS, SEPAC, TSS, Wakeshield, and Comet.  Leading mechanical engineer and project manager for plasma particle detectors including MAIMIK SPI, Polar ARCS AREA, ARIA SPS, and the CENTAUR sounding rocket payloads.  Project manager and mechanical engineer of the analyzer MEDUSA for Astrid-2.

Experience:
     Scientific software development and data management.  Author of the UARS/PEM data production processing software system. Responsible for developing and managing various data processing and analysis software systems for scientific research.

Experience:
     Particle detectors and related analog electronics, TOF electronics, and MCP imaging systems.  Projects include ARCAD-3, Giotto, MSG, Cluster, and Equator-S.

Experience:
     Long career as instrument physicist on numerous space and high energy experiments.  Responsible for Cluster MCP testing at RAL and UV rejection filter testing for IMAGE/MENA and SAC-B/ISENA.

Experience:
     Scientific software development and data analysis.  Co-I on the PROMICS-3 mass spectrometer, SKA-2/Interball, and ASPERA-C/Mars-96.  Participation in the IKI-DD system development.  Data analysis software for the high-energy detectors for PROGNOZ-7 and PROGNOZ-8 spacecraft.