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Joint ALMA Observatory



The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is responsible for the overall leadership and management of construction, commissioning and operations of ALMA.

  • Director - Thijs de Graauw
  • Deputy Director - Lewis Ball
  • Project Manager - Gary Parks
  • Deputy Project Manager - Tetsuo Hasegawa
  • Project Controller - César Ocampo
  • Project Scientist - Richard Hills
  • Deputy Project Scientist - Alison Peck
  • Lead System Engineer - Javier Marti-Canales
  • Head of Science Operations - Lars-Åke Nyman
  • Head of Department of Engineering - Michael Thorburn
  • Deputy Head of Department of Engineering (acting) - Dean Chalmers
  • Head of Department of Computing - Jorge Ibsen
  • Head of Administration - Russell Smeback
  • Site Manager - Jerome Dupuy
  • Site Manager - Diego Rojas
  • Head of Human Resources and Internal Communications - Marylin Keating
  • Safety Manager - Iván López

 



Project Offices



The ALMA activities of each Executive are managed by their ALMA Project Office, located at ESO in Garching (Germany) for the European partners of ALMA, at NRAO in Charlottesville (USA) for the North American partners, and NAOJ in Mitaka (Japan) for the Japanese partners.

 

European Project Office



  • Project Manager
    Wolfgang Wild

  • Deputy Project Manager
    Fabio Biancat Marchet

  • Legal Representative in Chile
    Massimo Tarenghi

  • Project Controller
    Donald Tait

  • Project Scientist
    Leonardo Testi

  • Instrument Scientist
    Robert Laing

  • Site Development Manager
    Claudio Cabrera

  • Antenna Subsystem Manager
    Stefano Stanghellini

  • Front End Subsystem Manager
    Gie Han Tan

  • Back End Subsystem Manager
    Hervé Kurlandczyk

  • Correlator Subsystem Manager
    Alain Baudry

  • Computing Subsystem Manager
    Joseph Schwarz

  • System Engineering and Integration Manager
    Hervé Kurlandzcyk

 

North American Project Office



  • Project Manager
    Mark McKinnon

  • Deputy Project Manager
    Mauricio Pilleux

  • Legal Representative in Chile
    Eduardo Hardy

  • Project Controller
    Antony Davies

  • Project Scientist
    Al Wootten

  • Instrument Scientist
    Darrel Emerson

  • Site Development Manager
    Eduardo Donoso

  • Antenna Subsystem Manager
    Art Symmes 

  • Front End Subsystem Manager
    Skip Thacker

  • Back End Subsystem Manager
    Ephraim Ford

  • Correlator Subsystem Manager
    John Webber

  • Computing Subsystem Manager
    Brian Glendenning

  • System Engineering and Integration Manager
    Wes Grammer

 

Japanese Project Office



  • Project Manager
    Satoru Iguchi

  • Deputy Project Manager
    Ryusuke Ogasawara

  • Legal Representative in Chile
    Ken'ichi Tatematsu

  • Project Controller
    Kurazo Chiba

  • Project Scientist
    Masao Saito

  • Site Subsystem Manager
    Ryusuke Ogasawara

  • Antenna Subsystem Manager
    Junji Inatani

  • Correlator Subsystem Manager
    Sachiko K. Okumura

  • Computing Subsystem Manager
    George Kosugi

  • System Engineering and Integration Manager
    Norikazu Mizuno

 

Integrated Product Team Leaders and Deputies



  • Antenna IPT
    • Lead - Stefano Stanghellini
    • Deputy - Art Symmes
    • Deputy - Junji Inatani


  • Front End IPT
    • Lead - Skip Thacker 
    • Deputy - Gie Han Tan


  • Back End IPT
    • Lead - Ephraim Ford 
    • Deputy - Hervé Kurlandczyk


  • Correlator IPT
    • Lead - John Webber
    • Deputy - Alain Baudry
    • Deputy - Sachiko K. Okumura
  • Computing IPT
    • Lead - Brian Glendenning
    • Deputy - Joseph Schwarz
    • Deputy - George Kosugi

 

  • Site IPT
    • Lead - Claudio Cabrera
    • Deputy - Eduardo Donoso
   

 

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