Ralf C. Boden

Jens Biele works as a senior staff scientist at DLR (German Aerospace Center) in Cologne, Germany. He is involved in the Rosetta Lander and Hayabusa2 Mascot lander projects as payload manager and scientist and has also been involved in a number of solar system exploration studies. Before his current position, he spent one year as a Postdoc with the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 in geosciences at the Free University Berlin while doing atmospheric research with the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research. He studied experimental physics at the University of Kaiserslautern and at Imperial College, London. His field of special expertise is cometary science, regolith mechanical properties as well as probes, payloads and small systems, in particular landers, for missions to small bodies in the solar system.