Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team
(EPR-AT)

Announcements and related documentation can be found via links on the right-hand menu. The provisional schedule of activities and a list of the members of the Advisory Team can be found below.

The EPR-AT is an expert advisory team appointed by ESA with the purpose of advising the Agency on the best scientific and technological roadmap to pursue in order to address one of the most exciting goals in modern astrophysics: the characterization of terrestrial exo-planets (up to the possible detection of biomarkers).  See article "Formation of EPR Advisory Team".

The EPR-AT will consult with the scientific community. The first step in this consultation process is the Call for White Papers (see article on "Call for White Papers for EPR-AT").

Provisional schedule of activities (updated May 2009):

End-May 2008:	ESA issues Call for White Papers
30 July 2008 (12:00 CEST):	Deadline for submission of White Papers
December 2009:	EPR-AT circulates draft roadmap to the scientific community
February 2010:	Workshop at which EPR-AT presents draft roadmap report to community and solicits feedback
May 2010:	Final roadmap report is delivered to ESA
June/July 2010:	Final roadmap report released to the scientific community

The members of the Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team are:

Artie Hatzes, (Chair), Thuringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany

Malcolm Fridlund, (Secretary), ESA

Anthony Boccaletti, Observatoire de Meudon, France

Rudolf Dvorak, Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria

Giusi Micela, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy

Alessandro Morbidelli, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France

Andreas Quirrenbach, ZAH, Landessternwarte, Germany

Heike Rauer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Franck Selsis, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB), France

Giovanna Tinetti, University College London, UK

Stephane Udry, Université de Genève, Switzerland

For further details please contact:
Dr. Fabio Favata
Head of ESA Science Planning and Community Coordination Office
E-mail: fabio.favatarssd.esa.int