Lead Investigator
David A. H. Buckley – South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa
Country Co-Principal Investigators
Ulisses Barres de Almeida – Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Brazil
Boris Shustov – Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Oleg Malkov – Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Amitesh Omar – Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences, India
Yogesh Wadadekar – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India
Liu Jifeng – National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, China
Chenzhou Cui – National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, China
Russ Taylor – Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, South Africa
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Mission of the BRICS Astronomy Working Group
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The mission of the BRICS Astronomy Working Group is to promote cooperation between BRICS member countries in the field of astronomy and enabling technologies through joint activities of government, universities, research institutions, and industry, as relevant, to develop astronomical sciences, generate new knowledge, train human capital, develop new technologies and applications, and improve public understanding of science.