The BELA Team

The BELA project is a joint project of the Physikalisches Institut of the University of Bern and the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) - Institut für Planetenforschung. Other partners are the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia.

The UBE team members had some fun checking the Qualification Model system on the roof of the Exact Sciences building.

Many persons have helped develop BELA. The core hardware team currently comprises:

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 University of Bern

 Prof. Dr. Nicolas Thomas

Project Lead - Hardware Phase

 Karsten Seiferlin

Overall Project Manager

 Daniele Piazza

Overall System Engineer

 Alain Peteut

Electrical Engineer

 Tim Bandy

Integration and Test Support Engineer

 Thierry De Roche

Test Engineer

 Anthony Servonet

Test Engineer

 Lisa Gambicorti 

Optical Engineer

 Urs Geissbühler

Software engineer

 Kevin Kuske

Software engineer

 Alireza Hosseiniarani

PhD Student

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Tilman Spohn

 Project Lead - Operations Phase

Harald Michaelis

Transmitter Manager

Hauke Hussmann

Operations Supervisor

Thomas Behnke

Electrical System Engineer

Kay Lingenauber

Structural and Test Engineer

Rolf Schröter

Software Development

Kai Wickhusan

Software Development

Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

 Uli Christensen

 Project Lead - Laser

 Reinald Kallenbach

 Laser Manager

 Henry Perplies

 Laser PA/QA

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia

 Luisa Lara

 Project Lead - Power Converter

 Jose (Chema) Castro

 Power Converter Manager

 Miguel Herranz

 Electrical Engineer

The industrial teams involved include

RUAG Space Switzerland
Cassidian Optronik, Germany
CRISA, Spain
FISBA Optik, St. Gallen
Syderal, Gals
Montena, Rossen