Jorge L. VAGO

Jorge was born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering and Electrical Engineering degrees at the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA).  In 1986 he enrolled in Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), where he completed a Master of Engineering in Applied Physics and a Ph.D. in Space Plasmas and Planetary Physics.  Since 1992, he is with the European Space Agency in the Netherlands.  Initially, he started working on multi-point plasma turbulence analysis in support of the Cluster mission.  This was followed by a few years of project management, mainly developing physics experiment laboratories for Russian capsules and the International Space Station.  Jorge is ESA’s ExoMars Project Scientist.  He is the interface for the investigator communities interested in the ExoMars Programme, particularly on the Rosalind Franklin Mission, tasked with searching for signs of possible martian life.  He also helps with other ESA activities in the international Mars exploration context, such as the Mars Sample Return mission.  In addition, his work includes representing the ExoMars science objectives at programmatic level and contributing to science mission and payload definition.