{"id":23706,"date":"2022-12-18T12:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T06:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=23706"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T06:53:06","slug":"esa-council-announces-new-directors-for-science-and-technology-engineering-and-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/esa-council-announces-new-directors-for-science-and-technology-engineering-and-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Council announces new Directors for Science and Technology, Engineering and Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

European Space Agency, ESA\u2019s 22 Member States approved the Director General\u2019s proposal to appoint a new Director of Science (D\/SCI) and a new Director for Technology, Engineering and Quality\u00a0(D\/TEC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The expected take-up duty dates are in the course of 2023, according to ESA Council 314th\u00a0session meeting on 15 December 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carole G. Mundell <\/a>has been appointed as Director of Science, succeeding the current director G\u00fcnther Hasinger. Dietmar Pilz has been appointed as Director of Technology, Engineering, and Quality,\u00a0succeeding the current (acting) director Torben Henriksen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carole Mundell, a British national, is currently President of the UK Science Council, Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy, and founding Head of Astrophysics at the University of Bath. Previously, she was the Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and before that was Chief International Science Envoy and Head of the Global Science and Emerging Technology Department, both at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Ph.D. in astrophysics and B.Sc. in natural philosophy, she worked at the University of Bath and the University of Maryland (USA), receiving numerous awards and recognition for leading international research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She succeeds G\u00fcnther Hasinger, who has held the D\/SCI post for the past five years. During that time, G\u00fcnther Hasinger led ESA\u2019s initiatives driving innovation and leading to progress. In his role, he helped to inspire future generations of scientists and engineers and stimulated global information exchange and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Council also appointed Dietmar Pilz<\/a> as the new Director of Technology, Engineering, and Quality. A German national, Dietmar Pilz has worked in the aerospace industry for the past 23 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is currently with Airbus Defence & Space at Immenstaad, Germany, as Head of Space Chief Engineering and Products, as well as Head of Site for Friedrichshafen. Previously at Airbus, he was Head of AstroBus and EO\/Science\/Exploration and Head of Payloads and Life Support Systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the former EADS, Dietmar Pilz worked in various technical and project management positions in Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Germany. With a Ph.D. and Diploma in Electrical Engineering, he was a research scientist at Rockwell Scientific in Thousand Oaks, USA, before joining EADS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will succeed Torben Henriksen, who served as acting D\/TEC for the past year. During that time, Torben Henriksen led ESA\u2019s initiatives driving the longer-term technology development \u2013 including generic technologies bringing benefit for all technical domains \u2013 while also supporting research and development infrastructure such as laboratories, test facilities, and specialist sections covering every aspect of the space environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

European Space Agency, ESA\u2019s 22 Member States approved the Director General\u2019s proposal to appoint a new Director of Science (D\/SCI) and a new Director for Technology, Engineering and Quality\u00a0(D\/TEC). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",1000,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-599x400.jpg",599,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-768x513.jpg",750,501,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-675x451.jpg",675,451,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",1000,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",1000,668,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",1000,668,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-870x570.jpg",870,570,true],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-600x668.jpg",600,668,true],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",640,428,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/esa-new-directors.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}