Collaborations

Space Missions  2009 – 2012

  • Low Frequency Instrument – LFI PLANCK Mission – European Space Agency – ESA
  • CFS – A – Colored Fungi in Space – ESA / SURE (on-site  International Space Station)
  • CFS – B – Colored Fungi in Space – ESA / SURE (off-site International Space Stations)
  • Micro-satellite (GOLIAT) – the first romanian satellite; to be launched in 2012.

International Ground Experiments

  • Heavy ion experiments in nuclear emulsions BECQUEREL – “Berilium Clustrering Quest in Relativistic Multifragmentation”, JINR – Dubna, Russia.
  • ALICE – “A Large Ion Collider Experiment” – LHC – Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva.
  • FAIR – GSI, Darmstadt.
  • NUSTAR – R3B – “Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams”.
  • SPARC – “Stored Particle Atomic Research Collaboration”.
  • SLIM – “Search for LIght Monopoles”, Chacaltaya, Bolivia.
  • ANTARES – “Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch”, Mediterranean Sea.
  • Km3Net – European Project FP7.
  • MoEDAL – LHC – Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva.
  • FCAL, Forward Region Research and Development
  • AUGER – Pierre Auger Observatory, Malargue, Argentina

 ESA – The Programme for European Co-operating States (PECS)

  • Scientific exploitation of the Planck-LFI data (Planck-LFI_SED).
  • Kinetic investigation of the Earth’s and Venerian plasma layers (KEV2) – CLUSTER II and Venus Express.
  • Energy Conversion and Transfer in the Solar Wind- Magnetosphere – Ionosphere System (ECSTRA) – CLUSTER II.
  • Romanian GRID middleware repository for Space Science Applications (RoSpaceGRID) – Planck, CLUSTER II and Venus Express.
  • CFS – SURE – International Space Station.
  • Portable Telemedicine Workstation Definition and Specification – PTW.

 Future Projects: ESA Cosmic Vision 2015 – 2025

  • Mission EUCLID (SPACE + DUNE).
  • Cross-Scale Mission: Multi-scale Coupling in Space Plasmas.
  •  Cross-Scale Magnetometer.
  • Studies for Cross-Scale Ion Instruments.
  • Studies for Cross-Scale Electron Instruments.

International R & D partners (=> 2009)

  • ALICE Collaboration – LHC – Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Geneva.
  • NUSTAR – R3B Collaboration – FAIR, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • SPARC Collaboration – FAIR, GSI, Darmstadt.
  • ANTARES Collaboration – “Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch”, Mediterranean Sea.
  • FCAL Collaboration – Forward Region Research and Development.
  • Linear Collider Detector, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Auger Collaboration – AERA (Auger Engineering Array)
  • JEM-EUSO

 Belgium

  •  Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Bruxelles.

 Czech Republic

  • Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Czech Academy, Prague.
  • Karlovo University, Prague.

France

  •  University of Cergy Pontoise, Cergy Pontoise.

Germany

  • Max Plank Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching.
  • Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, Technical University Braunschweig.
  • DESY-Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen.
  • KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Italy

  • C.N.R – I.A.S.F. Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna.
  • Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita di Bologna, Bologna.
  • Laboratorio per lo Studio degli Effetti delle Radiazioni sui Materiali Speciali (SERMS), Terni.
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Perugia.

Russia

  • Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna.

Turkey

  •  Cankaya University, Ankara.

USA

  •  Brookhaven National Laboratory, Heavy Ion Research Group, Upton, New York.

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