The Athena community counts more than 1000 researchers divided into five Working Groups: SGW1 The Hot Universe, SWG2 The Energetic Universe, SWG3 Observatory Science, TWG4 Telescope and MWG5 Mission Performance. Most of them are organised in Topical Panels (e.g. SWG1.3, MPG5.2, etc).

ESA has recently released an announcement of opportunity (AO) inviting applications to become a member of the NewAthena Science Study Team. If you are a scientist based in an ESA Member State, visit the AO webpage to get detailed information about the mission, the responsibilities of the Science Study Team, and the application process.

The application for Working Group membership is currently closed. We will inform you on this website when the process reopens.

In case of affiliation changes, please fill in this form with the updated data and consent. Please note that if messages sent to an email in our database bounce regularly, the corresponding person will be removed from the community database.

In case of Group/Panel membership changes, please contact us by email.