ESAC

FACULTY

FIFTH ASSEMBLY

15 November 2007

SENTINELVIEWGRAPHS

http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY

THEME

ONE YEAR ON

1. Sixth ESAC Faculty Jamboree

2. History (and status of membership)

3. Faculty operation (incl. RF matters, offices, Faculty web ...)

4. Update on funded programmes

5. The recent call for Departmental Research Proposals

6. The Advisory Committee for Research

7. Faculty results• 20%/50% Status• collaborations in the Faculty• papers & other products from visits (acknowledgement)

• the Terminator8. AOB

AGENDA

CHANCE TO MEET TO OUR

VISITORS

WELCOME

Igor Telezhinski Kiev

Dmytro Iakubovskyi Kiev

Dr. Ryszard Szczerba N. Copernicus Centre

HISTORY

(and status of membership)

RECALLING: FACULTY: PURPOSE & MEMBERSHIP

Mission Statement: To foster a (more) effective scientific environment at ESACTo give a united face to the scientific work

Who constitute the Faculty: All active (i.e. publishing papers) research scientists at ESAC:

ESA staff, RFs, Science Contractors and LAEFF researchers.There are now 90 in this category(but remember average time for science is only ~10%, so these are only a tinyfraction of that in ftes)

Please HELP us track new members

HISTORY

Proto-faculty May 11 2006Faculty established September 30 2006

First Assembly May 11 2006Second Assembly October 19 2006Third Assembly March 29 2007Fourth Assembly July 05 2007Fifth Assembly November 15 2007

Faculty Workshop Sept. 05-07 2007X-rays from Nearby Galaxies: 74 participants (12 internal)

6 Jamborees (latest Nov. 15 '07 Tot.: 82 spoke/78+ bios on the web)

13 Council meetings (minutes on web)

5 Assemblies (VGs on web)

1 Interfaculty Telecon with ESTEC Faculty Executive (Exec)

FACULTY OPERATION

FACULTY OPERATION

We need more proposals. We' re not spending our budget• new Solar System people haven’t really started to spend yet

Council meet ~1 per month to approve funding requests

All funded projects should finish with:

• short written report of progress during visit

• ideally: presentation of results (seminar)

• eventual products (e.g. refereed papers etc.)

Follow funding instructions athttp://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY&page=internal_index

THREE STEPS:To start the process :

Apply for Faculty funding (text proposal made to Council)email to: faculty_funds@sciops.esa.int

After approval and 6 weeks before work starts :

Submit Contract Application Form (1 pg. Word doc.)email to: Andy.Pollock@esa.int (cc: Leo.Metcalfe@sciops.esa.int)

On receipt of contract in mail (or before – using the web form) :

Submit Reimbursement Form (Microsoft Excel format)Signed paper form to: Leo Metcalfe and Andy Pollock)

FACULTY OPERATION - FUNDING

PERCENTAGE OF BUDGET ALLOCATED PER CATEGORY

Visitors Visitors VisitorsEstablished Ph.D. students Trainees

Researchers & Post-Docs.

35% 40% 10%

Elite seminar Mini-Workshops

5% 5%

Discretionary

5%

FACULTY OPERATION - FUNDING

ACKNOWLEDGING FUNDING

Acknowledgement: We acknowledge support from the Faculty of the European Space

Astronomy Centre (ESAC)

OFFICE SPACE

• Plan to have one Visitor Office per building (A,B,C)

• Will serve visitors to mission teams and also Faculty

• With 3 offices in total we hope it will be enough

• Paying for Faculty office-space could cost 33KEuro/year

• Final agreements pending

FACULTY WEB

Last time I wrote :==>

I’d appreciate a VOLUNTEER to help with the Web work !!??

thank you NICK for responding !!!

RF ISSUES

Pool of interviewers for Research Fellow candidates: LM asked for volunteers from among experienced ESA staff :==>

Matthias Ehle Andy Pollock

Matteo Guainazzi Maria

Santos-Lleo

Peter Kretschmar

Erik Kuulkers

Patrick Martin

Leo Metcalfe

Luis Sanchez

Norbert Schartel

Next RF application deadline : January 21 2008

Next 3rd. year contract application deadline : January 31 2008

UPDATEON

FUNDED PROGRAMMES

PROGRAMMES SUPPORTED

http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY&page=internal_index

Departmental Research Proposals

Sept.24 SCI-S and SCI-OA issued a Call for Research Proposals

Deadline October 8 - Scope: Left very broad. Any good Science

Funds available: Substantial (approximate amount reported at Assembly)

Departments asked Faculty to set up Scientific peer review panel

an ESTEC/ESAC Panel was appointed (names listed at Assembly)

11 proposals received: Only 1 ESAC PI • Detectors/Instrumentation, Extra-Solar Planets, SSOs, Meteors, Plasma

Physics, Data Analysis ... impressively technical

Faculty Panel reported by Nov.03

Senior management discussed Nov.05

Now they must allocate resources

Departmental Research Proposals

The Advisory Committee

for

Research

Biennial Review Every two years, our research output is reviewed by an Advisory Committee of senior scientists

We prepare the "Biennial Report" as input (remember the publications lists?)

They visit - usually ESTEC - hear presentations and talk to a sample of Science staff and RFs

They make recommendations, e.g. last time• start a Faculty• support a few 3rd. year RF extensions• have a visitor programme• ... sound familiar !!?? ...

Next visit Nov.22/23 @ ESTEC• Pedro G-L, Maria S-L. will give Sci. talks in presentation session • LM will go and be chair-like: Round Table with the Faculties• 3 RFs will go (Stefania, Nick, Luca): Round Table with the RFs• some of us will get a nice meal

MISCELLANEOUS

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

20% and 50% Science Posts

• this was raised at the 3rd Assembly

• subsequently Pedro Garcia-Lario agreed to set up a small Commission within the Faculty to prepare a case, including a proposed method of assessment of research performance, for consideration by the Faculty (both ESAC and ESTEC). If approved by the Faculty it would be presented to ESAmanagement. Over to Pedro ...

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

After the jamborees: Opportunities to collaborate ??

• think I said it last time: We should compile a list of internal collaborations

• also, consider to flick through the research profiles of Faculty members listed under “ESAC Faculty Jamborees” at :==>

http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ESACFACULTY&page=events_index It can be very surprising, with the number we now have, how many overlaps you find!! • please notify me (short email is fine) of any existing or new collaborations

• in case you are involved, especially centrally, in significant external collaborations I’d appreciate knowing that too

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Evaluation of Faculty success:

• will be coming back for status reports on promised outputs from funding

• has the Faculty helped you to do research. Unfortunately perhaps, thistends to mean "is your name on more papers"!?

• by middle of next year we should be seeing real impacts!

• I think that e.g. Workshops and general interaction with and visibility to the Community is also important, especially where it increases their

involvement in the missions

• I’d be glad to see other criteria enumerated.

KEEPING YOUR PROMISES

Did you sell your soul for Faculty money !!??

Someone wants to talk to you!

Matteo Guainazzi is ...

The Faculty Terminator

ESAC FACULTY