4 July 2008

In memoriam Roberto Marco Cuéllar

We have just learned with great sadness that our colleague Roberto Marco Cuéllar passed away last week after several months of illness.

Roberto had started to be involved with ESF-ESSC activities in 2007 when he very actively participated to the Ad Hoc Group that supervised the evaluation of Europe's exploration programme that the European Space Agency had asked ESSC to conduct. In 2008 Roberto also accepted to contribute to the 3rd evaluation by ESF of ESA's ELIPS programme, covering all physical and life sciences research with space relevance.

The biomedical and the space sciences communities are losing one very enthusiastic member and a strong personality.