Carlos Pérez García, Full Professor of Physics at the University of Navarra, has worked in the committee international group of experts that has evaluated a series of projects for the International Space Station (ISS). During the month of May, he traveled with 23 other European experts to NASA headquarters in Washington.

According to Professor Carlos Pérez García, "NASA, in partnership with the space agencies of Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and the European ESA, launched last November a call for research projects to be carried out on the International Space Station (ISS) during the period 2004-2006".

"The projects submitted were discussed for three days at NASA headquarters in Washington, in order to establish a preference according to the scientific interest of these works," he said.

Spanish selected by the European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) selected Full Professor from the University of Navarra to be part of the Fluid Dynamics committee , formed by four other American experts, one Swedish, two German and one Japanese, moderated by a French professor.

The professor points out that for each of the priority topics (Biotechnology, Combustion, Fluid Physics, Fundamental Physics and Materials Science) an international committee of experts was selected to evaluate the quality of the projects and to decide on the need to carry out the proposed experiments in space, taking advantage of the microgravity conditions.

On the other hand, the scientist from the University of Navarra is the president of the board provisional of the group Especializado de Física Estadística y No Lineal. This is an entity created last May 18 by the Spanish Royal Society of Physics.