Gerhard Schwehm

Gerhard Schwehm (born 13 March 1949, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) is Head of Solar System Science Operations Division for the European Space Agency (ESA).

Schwehm gained his PhD in Applied Physics from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.

Schwehm was a scientist at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) modelling the dust environment for Halley's comet.

He then became ESA's first planetary scientist, working on the Giotto mission that provided the first close-up images of a comet nucleus, Halley's Comet.

Schwehm was mission manager for ESA's Smart-1 mission that impacted the Moon in September 2006 ending three years surveying the Moon.