Josef Aschbacher

Josef Aschbacher is the ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN, ESA’s centre for Earth Observation, located in Frascati, Italy. Josef was born and raised in Austria. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, graduating with a Master's and a Doctoral Degree in Natural Sciences. He started his career as a Research Scientist at the university's Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics between 1985 and 1989. After, he worked in ESA as a Young Graduate and also in the European Commission Joint Research Centre .