Head of Applied Infrared Spectroscopy Lab
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)Atmospheres, Earth Climate, Remote Sensing, Solar System
Ph.D. in physics and mathematics. Professional interests: planetary science, Mars, Venus, climate science, atmospheric remote sensing, IR spectroscopy, radiative transfer. Rodin serves as the executive director of MIPT鈥檚 R&D center for environmental monitoring, developing and implementing solutions that involve spaceborne and UAV-based remote sensing in the visible, infrared, and radio ranges, with AI-based zero-latency data treatment. He is also a participant of international projects exploring the solar system 鈥 Mars Express, Venus Express, ExoMars 鈥 and an investigator or co-principal investigator in experiments on spectroscopic sounding of planetary atmospheres. Rodin has co-authored 97 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has an h-index of 25 (WoS).
Leadership, Origins Of Life, Planets, public engagement, Solar System, Webb Space Telescope
Dr. Heidi Hammel is an Interdisciplinary Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope and Vice President for Science at AURA. She previously served as a member of the Imaging Science Team for the Voyager 2 Neptune Encounter, and spent many years at MIT as a Principal Research Scientist. Dr. Hammel has used Hubble many times to study Neptune and Uranus, and led the Hubble Team that investigated Jupiter鈥檚 atmospheric response to the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.