Mark A. Wieczorek - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Mark Wieczorek
Curriculum Vitae
• Gravity and topography of the terrestrial planets.
• Impact cratering in the solar system.
• The crusts of planetary bodies.
• Planetary magnetism.
6. Research themes
• Thermal and magmatic evolution of terrestrial planets.
• Robotic and scientific exploration of the Moon.
• Spectral analysis on the sphere.
7. Participation in funded planetary missions
• Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). NASA discovery class mission to map the gravity
field of the Moon (end of mission December 2012). Co-investigator, 2008–.
• BepiColumbo Laser Altimeter. This instrument will map globally the topography of Mercury as part
of ESA’s BepiColumbo mission (launch 2016). Co-investigator, 2005–.
• Ganymede Laser Altimeter. This instrument will map the topography of the satellite Ganymede as
part of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission (launch 2022). Co-investigator, 2013–.
• InSight. NASA discovery class mission to deploy the first-ever geophysical station on Mars. Coinvestigator,
2010–.
• Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS). This instrument mapped the chemical composition of
the lunar surface as part of the Indian mission Chandrayaan-1. Co-investigator, 2007–2010.
• Demonstration Compact Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (D-CIXS). Prototype of the C1XS instrument
that was flown on ESA’s SMART-1 mission to the Moon. Co-investigator, 2005–2007.
8. Conference Organization
• Scientific preparations for lunar exploration, held at the European space research and technology
centre (ESTEC), Feb. 6–7, 2012.
• European lunar symposium, held at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), April 19–20, 2012.
• GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), 2-day workshop held at IPGP, June 18–19, 2012.
• Co-organization of the conference International summer school and workshop on lunar science and
data analysis for planetary missions at Shandong University, China, 2007.
• Organization of the session Analysis and Representation of Geophysical Data on the Sphere with F.
Simons at AGU (American Geophysical Union), 2005 (fall).
• Co-organization of the conference New views of the Moon at DLR Berlin, 2002.
9. Visiting positions
• University of Hawaii (USA), visiting scientist. One-month collaboration with J. J. Taylor concerning
lunar bulk composition, 2013.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), visiting scientist. Two-month collaboration with B.
Weiss concerning lunar magnetism, 2011.
• Curtin University of Technology (Australia), visiting scientist. One-month collaboration with J. Kirby
concerning elastic thickness estimation from gravity and topography, 2009.
• Niels Bohr Institute (Denmark), visiting scientist. One-month collaboration with K. Mosegaard and
C. Hvidberg concerning the Martian polar caps and lunar core, 2007.
• DLR, German Aerospace Center (Germany), visiting scientist. One-month collaboration with T.
Spohn and D. Breuer concerning the heat flow of Mars, 2006.
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