PROFESSOR MANUEL GRANDE is Head of Solar System Physics, formerly Director of the Institute of Maths and Physics, Aberystwyth Univ, UK. PI for X-ray spectrometers C1XS on Chandrayaan-1 and D-CIXS on SMART-1, Co-PI on BepiColombo SIXS and Cluster/Rapid and Co-I on JUICE and many others He is EPSC Chair, UK representative and Space Weather VC, on COSPAR, and member of many Panels. Main scientific interests : Energetic particles in planetary magnetospheres, Planet surfaces, Space Instruments.