Swiss contribution to Webb / MIRI
Swiss contribution - MIRI
The Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA) at the ETH Zürich Department of Physics is part of the James Webb Space telescope external pageMid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) consortium. MIRI is jointly developed by the USA and a nationally funded European Consortium (EC) under the auspices of the European Space Agency. The EC is responsible for the optics, optical bench, and assembly, integration, and test of the MIRI instrument.
Dr. Adrian Glauser serves at Swiss National Project Lead for participation in the MIRI Instrument Consortium for Webb and oversees the contributions of the Swiss industry partners, RUAG Aerospace and SYDERAL SA. He is supported in his work by Polychronis Patapis. Prof. Manuel Guedel (University of Vienna and Associate Professor at ETH Zurich) serves as the Swiss co-Principle Investigator, Prof. Simon Lilly and Dr. Adrian Glauser as Swiss co-Investigators for the MIRI Consortium, respectively.
Initially, the Swiss contribution was lead by Dr. Alexander Zehnder at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Dr. Glauser took over the lead in 2007 and in 2008, the project was transferred to ETH Zurich.