Dr Nadia Brunner
Principal investigator
Coronal physicist, twenty-two years at the institute. Wrote the two-page note in 2019 that eventually became a funded mission at L5.
People
The team
Ninety-four people in Davos and Bern. Six of them answer the phone when a member state calls at three in the morning.
Prof. Marc Lüthi
Instrument scientist
Responsible for the coronagraph optical chain, and for the stray-light campaign that occupied the Davos hall for most of 2026.
Elin Roth
Lead forecaster
Writes the morning bulletin. Keeps the phone that grid operators call when the index climbs past G3, and decides when a watch becomes a warning.
Andreas Vogt
Flight operations director
Runs the control room and the pass schedule. Commanded the deep space manoeuvre in March with eleven seconds of margin.
Dr Sofia Keller
Data and modelling lead
Built the arrival-time model that turns a side view of an eruption into a four-hour window, and the archive that publishes it.
Jonas Weber
Ground segment engineer
Maintains the Davos antenna and the link to partner stations in Lapland and the Canary Islands. On call every third week.
Organisation
How the institute
is put together
Four departments, one director, and a scientific advisory board that meets twice a year in Bern.
94
Staff
6
Partner institutes
11
Member states
1938
Founded
Careers
We are hiring
two forecasters
two forecasters
Shift work in Davos, a physics or geophysics background, and the willingness to be woken up by the Sun. Applications through the contact page.