President

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Dr. Katharine Robson Brown
University College Dublin (Ireland)
E-mail: katharine.robsonbrown@ucd.ie
Web:
Discipline: Life Sciences
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Dr. Elisa Raffaella Ferre
Department of Psychological Sciences,
Birkbeck University of London
Malet St, London, WC1E7HX, UK
E-mail: elisa.ferre@bbk.ac.uk
Discipline: Life Sciences (Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology)
Secretary

Dr. Philip Carvil
Science and technology Facilities Council (STFC), RB2, Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Cheshire, WA4 4AD, UK.
E-mail: Philip.carvil@stfc.ac.uk
Discipline: Life Sciences (Human Physiology)
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Dr.-Ing. Thorben Könemann
ZARM Drop Tower Operation and Service Co.
Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 2, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)421 218-57785
Cellphone: +49 (0)175 2279376
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Dr. Raúl Herranz
CIB Margarita Salas
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
C/ Ramiro de Maeztu 9 28040 · Madrid, Spain
E-mail: rherranz@cib.csic.es
Web: https://www.cib.csic.es/project/SOSmicrogravity
Discipline: Life Sciences (Plant Space Omics and Simulated microgravity)
Member
Stefan Krämer
Science Services Division
Swedish Space Corporation
Phone: +46 (0) 8 627 62 44
Mobile: +46 (0) 70 639 75 21
stefan.kramer@sscspace.com
Torggatan 15
SE-171 54 Solna, Sweden
Disciplines: Microgravity Science and Technology, Education
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SELGRA President
Maryam Haq
PhD Student in the Vestibular Neuroscience Lab at Birkbeck
University of London (United Kingdom)
Aditional SELGRA Managing Committee members
Jacob Mali (Slovenia)
PhD Student in the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (UL FS) & School of Economics and Business (SEB UL)
Sharon van Rijthoven (The Netherlands)
Biomedical Engineering graduate on the hunt for a PhD
Discipline: Hypergravity Studies, Space Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering
Federica Torre (Italy)
PhD student in Physics at Politecnico di Milano
Discipline: Lab on Chip-Microfluidics glass-based, manufactured by femtosecond laser
Daniel Cieślak (Poland)
MSc Student in Biomedical Engineering – Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Medical Signal Processing, Space Medicine
Ana Paula Guevara-Cerdán (United Kingdom)
PhD candidate, University of Sheffield
Discipline: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Former ELGRA Presidents
- Philip Carvil (2021-2024)
- Ricard González-Cinca (2018-2020)
- Monica Monici (2015-2017)
- Valentina Shevtsova (2011- 2015)
- Jack van Loon (2007–2011)
- Daniel Beysens (2003–2007)
- Marianne Cogoli-Greuter (1999–2003)
- Manuel G. Velarde (1997–1999)
- Gerard Perbal (1995–1997)
- Yves Malméjac (1993–1995)
- Jan P.B. Vreeburg (1989–1993)
- Augusto Cogoli (1986–1989)
- Luigi G. Napolitano (1981–1986)
- Herbert Weiss (1979–1981)
Former ELGRA Management Committee Members
- Anna Sabaté García (2018-2026)
- Christian Lockowandt (2017-2024)
- Eric Falcon (2017 – 2023)
- Marcel Egli (2017 – 2021)
- Carole Leguy (2011 – 2019)
- Kurt Kemmerle (2003 – 2019)
- F. Javier Medina (2007 – 2013)
- Hendrik Kuhlmann (1999 – 2011)
- Klaus Wittmann ( – 2003)
