Dr. Kurz has extensive management experience in space and astronomical projects. He has been serving as Interim ALMA European Project Manager from February to October 2008. From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Kurz was ALMA European Project Manager at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany. At ESO, he organized the European side of the ALMA collaboration. Dr. Kurz was Project Manager of the Gemini 8-Meter Telescopes and, before that, managed a variety of NASA and Department of Defense space programs while at TRW Space and Defense and NASA. Dr. Kurz holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published many scientific and technical papers on high-energy elementary particle physics and presented ALMA at international conferences throughout the last decade.