Gerhard Schwehm
Gerhard Schwehm is Head of Solar System Science Operations Division for the European [Space Agency]. He was Mission Manager for the Rosetta mission until his retirement.
Education
Schwehm gained his PhD in Applied Physics from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.Career
Schwehm was a scientist at the European Space [Operations Centre] modelling the dust environment for Halley's Comet. He then became ESA's first planetary scientist, working on the Giotto mission that provided the first close-up images of a comet nucleus, Halley's Comet.Schwehm became lead scientist on ESA's Rosetta mission in 1985, that culminated in Rosetta looping around the Sun with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014-2015.
Schwehm was mission manager for ESA's Smart-1 mission that impacted the Moon in September 2006 ending three years surveying the Moon.