{"id":19,"date":"2026-01-20T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lares-mission.com\/squadra\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:00:02","slug":"squadra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lares-mission.com\/en\/squadra\/","title":{"rendered":"The research team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The LARES and LARES 2 missions are carried out by a core Italian research team in collaboration with an international research partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LARES\/LARES 2 Team \u2013 Italy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ignazio Ciufolini<\/a><\/strong>, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. Scientific lead and the inventor of the experiment to measure the drag effect of inertial systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonio Paolozzi<\/a><\/strong>, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. Responsible for the engineering project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claudio Paris<\/a><\/strong>, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emiliano Ortore<\/a><\/strong>, School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giampiero Sindoni <\/a><\/strong>(until 2019), School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International scientific collaboration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Erricos C. Pavlis<\/a><\/strong>, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA (ret.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Ries<\/a>, <\/strong>Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Matzner<\/a><\/strong>, Theory Group, University of Texas at Austin, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Penrose<\/a><\/strong>, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vahe Gurzadyan<\/a><\/strong>, Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Alikhanian National Laboratory and Yerevan State University, Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wei-Tou Ni<\/a><\/strong>, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics \u2013 WIPM, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolf K\u00f6nig<\/a><\/strong>, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Schreiner<\/a><\/strong>, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le missioni LARES e LARES 2 si avvalgono di una squadra di ricerca principale italiana e di una collaborazione di ricerca internazionale. LARES\/LARES 2 Team – Italia Ignazio Ciufolini, Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma. Responsabile scientifico e ideatore dell’esperimento per la misura dell’effetto di trascinamento dei sistemi inerziali. Antonio Paolozzi, Scuola di […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-title","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t