Željko Ivezić is a professor in the Astronomy Department at theUniversity of Washington. He holds a PhD in physics from the University Kentucky. His research interests are in detection, analysis, and interpretation of electromagnetic emission from astronomical objects.

During his seven years in Princeton, he earned the status of SDSS"builder" (sdss.org) for his software development. Željko currently serves as the Project Scientist for LSST, a next generation survey (lsst.org).

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Ralph Neuhäuser is professor of astrophysics and director of the astrophysical institute and university observatory at the University of Jena in Germany.

He did his undergraduate work in physics at Bochum at Sussex Universities and his PhD at München University.
He was a Post-Doc at the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial physics from 1996 to 2002.

His main research interests are the formation of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and planets, studied observationally.

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Tomislav Prokopec is a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Spinoza Institute at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
of Utrecht University.

His main research interest Is in cosmology, where he is mostly interested in studying how the process of cosmic inflation can influence formation of large scale structures in The Universe.

Equally interesting to Tomislav
are the origins of the baryonic
matter of the Universe, known
also as baryogenesis.

Moshe Elitzur is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kentucky, where he conducts research in theoretical astrophysics.

His areas of expertise include analysis of maser radiation from interstellar molecules (he is the author of the book "Astronomical Masers") and infrared radiation from interstellar dust.

He is employing methods developed together with students and colleagues toward understanding how stars form and how they die, the structure of interstellar clouds, circum stellar winds and the surroundings of super massive black holes at the centres of active galaxies. In addition to the peculiarities of astronomical sources, Moshe likes to study the peculiarities of human nature, why the members of nations that are seemingly so much alike can still be so different.

He also enjoys riding his bike and swimming at the pool.

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Günther Wuchterl was born and studied in Vienna (Astronomy, Zoology).

He has been a scientist at the University of Heidelberg, University of California Santa Barbara, Technical University Vienna, University of Vienna, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial physics in Garching. Presently he is working at the Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory ion Jena, Germany. His main work area includes the theory of the emergence of celestial bodies, star and planet formation.

Günther is working on the search for extra-solar planets with Eike Günther, Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (search for planets with brown dwarves) and Ralph Neuhäuser (AIU Jena) on the first direct imaging of a planet orbiting another star. Günther participated in the rescue of the historical Kuffner observatory in Vienna, and a national public campaign for the determination of the light contamination in Austria.

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Marina Rejkuba is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory.

Her research interests are quite versatile and include stellar populations in nearby galaxies, a detailed study of Centaurus A galaxy, globular cluster systems and observations of all sorts of variable stars.

(http://www.eso.org/~mrejkuba)

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Suvi Gezari is a Hubble Fellow in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a PhD in astronomy from Columbia University, and was previously a Volontariat International Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, in collaboration with the Laboratoire Astrophysique de Marseille .

Her main research interest is the study of supermassive black holes via observations in the time domain in the optical, UV, and X-rays. She is a member of the GALEX Science Team, and the Pan-STARRS Science Consortium.

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Andreas Seifahrt is a post-doc at the University of Göttingen. He obtained his PhD at the University of Jena after working for more than two years at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Andreas worked for instrumentation projects at the IfA (Hawaii) and at ESO during is studies. His scientific interests are rather broad, ranging from low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets over star formation to atmospheric sciences.

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Tanja Bosak je profesorica geobiologije na Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rodena je u Zagrebu gdje je i diplomirala geofiziku, doktorirala je geobiologiju 2004. na California Institute of Technology i bila je post-doktorand na Harvardu. Tanjini osnovni znanstveni interes je meduodnos bioloskih procesa i planetarnog okolisa, cime se bavi proucavajuci kemijske i morfoloske fosile iz dugog razdoblja ranog zivota na Zemlji kad su planetom dominirali mikrobi. Rad u njenom laboratoriju objedinjuje metode geologije, fizike i molekularne i okolisne mikrobiologije i ukljucuje terenske izlete u Yellowstone, Rusiju i ostala mjesta gdje se mogu naci vrlo stare stijene i vrlo neobicni mikrobi.

U slobodno vrijeme bavi se yogom, znanstvenom edukacijom i putuje.

Dejan Vinković is a postdoctoral member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The main topic of his research is radiative transfer in dusty clouds. For that purpose he developed a special code named LELUYA, which has a very versatile applicability ranging from the formation of stars and planets to the dust formation around old dying stars. Dejan is also studying meteors and was a member of the meteor expedition to Mongolia. He is currently coordinating the continuation of this project.

In addition, Dejan is the main editor of Connect::Portal, an Internet media for
Croatian scientists and educators.

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Petar Mimica did his PhD at the
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics
in Garching , Germany.

His interests in astrophysics
include numerical hydrodynamics, mostly numerical simulations of relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei, and especially creation of synthetic radio and X-ray images
which are then compared with real observations.

Currently he is collaborating with the University of Valencia's observers
and theoreticians, with the aim of significantly improving numerical simulations. Apart from that, he is interested in popularizing astronomy
and astrophysics among people, especially students and
school children.

He spends his free time
swimming and cycling.

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Kevin Hand
Planetary Scientist/Astrobiologist

Kevin is a graduate student in the Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University and President/Founder of Cosmos Education, an international non-profit organization dedicated to grass-roots science education in developing regions of the world.

Kevin’s research focuses on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the solar system. Specifically, his PhD dissertation involves both theoretical and experimental work on the
habitability of the putative European ocean. He was born and raised in Manchester, Vermont, and has bachelors degrees in physics and psychology from Dartmoth College and a masters in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

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