Venus III The View After Venus Express

Bruno Bézard is a scientist from CNRS working at the Observatoire de Paris, where he investigates the atmospheres of planets, moons and exoplanets. He has authored or co-authored nearly 180 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including 29 on Venus. He has been a member of instrument teams including the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer, the Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer and the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer aboard Venus Express. In 2018, he was awarded the David Bates medal of the European Geosciences Union.

Chris Russell is a Professor of Geophysics and Space Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He has flown instruments on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, and other terrestrial, planetary, and interplanetary missions.  He recently served as a co-investigator on the Venus Express orbiter.  He was presented the AGU Macelwane award, the AGU Fleming medal as well as the COSPAR Science Prize.  He has authored or co-authored over 1800 papers in journals and books, and authored two text books.  His H-index is currently 108.



Takehiko Satoh was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1962. He currently works at the Department of Solar System Sciences at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA. Satoh received his PhD in Physics from the Science University of Tokyo in 1992. Satoh is the Principle Investigator for the IR2 (2-mm) camera onboard Venus Climate Orbiter, and the project Scientist for the Venus Climate Orbiter. His research interests include planetary atmospheres, magnetospheres, and surfaces.

Suzanne E. Smrekar is an American astronomer and Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars InSight lander. Smrekar obtained her B.S. degree in geophysics and mathematics from Brown University in 1984, and her doctorate in geophysics from Southern Methodist University in 1990. She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT before joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 1992.

Colin Wilson is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, where his research focusses on the atmospheres of terrestrial planets. He supplied meteorological sensors for Beagle 2 and Schiaparelli Mars landers; has been a co-Investigator for orbiter instruments including the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer aboard Venus Express, and the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter; and develops proposals for future missions to Venus, Mars and Titan.