ALMA Management

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
  • Project Manager - Dick Kurz
  • Deputy Project Manager - Tetsuo Hasegawa
  • Project Controller - Richard Simon
  • Project Scientist - Richard Hills
  • Deputy Project Scientist - Alison Peck
  • Lead System Engineer - Javier Marti-Canales
  • Head of Science Operations - Lars-Ake Nyman
  • Head of Technical Services - Richard Prestage
  • Head of Administration - Russell Smeback
  • Human Resources Manager - Joanna Mackenzie
  • Safety Manager - Jacques Lassalle

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
    Herve Kurlandczyk

  • Correlator Subsystem Manager
    Alain Baudry

  • Computing Subsystem Manager
    Gianni Raffi

  • System Engineering and Integration Manager
    Christoph Haupt

North American Project Office

  • Project Manager
    Mark Mckinnonn

  • Deputy Project Manager
    Mauricio Pilleux

  • Deputy Project Manager
    Jeff Zivick

  • 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
    Jeff Zivick

  • 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
    Mike Rodriguez

Japanese Project Office

  • Project Manager
    Satoru Iguchi

  • Legal Representative in Chile
    Ryusuke Ogasawara

  • Project Controller
    Kurazo Chiba

  • Project Scientist
    Koh-Ichiro Morita

  • 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 - Stephano Stanghellini
    • Deputy - Jeff Zivick
    • Deputy - Junji Inatani
  • Front End IPT
    • Lead - Skip Thacker
    • Deputy - Gie Han Tan
  • Back End IPT
    • Lead - Ephraim Ford
    • Deputy - Herve Kurlandczyk
  • Correlator IPT
    • Lead - John Webber
    • Deputy - Alain Baudry
    • Deputy - Sachiko K. Okumura
  • Computing IPT
    • Lead - Brian Glendenning
    • Deputy - Gianni Raffi
    • Deputy - George Kosugi
  • Systems Engineering and Integration IPT
    • Lead - Mike Rodriguez
    • Deputy - Christoph Haupt
    • Deputy - Norikazu Mizuno
  • Site IPT
    • Lead - Claudio Cabrera
    • Deputy - Eduardo Donoso
   

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