ALMA Management

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  Sean Dougherty

  Director

  Dr. Sean Dougherty was appointed ALMA Director in July 2017, for a 5-year term beginning in February 21st, 2018.
  Dougherty was the director of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Canada’s national radio astronomy facility, run by NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics. He has served as a member of the ALMA Board representing North America for four years and was the chair of the ALMA Budget Committee for the last two years.
  Dougherty received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Nottingham, England, in 1983 and his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Calgary, Canada, in 1993. (more…)

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  Stuartt Corder

  Deputy Director

  Dr. Stuartt Corder was appointed ALMA Deputy Director, effective January 1st, 2015. Stuartt joined ALMA as (more…)

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  John Carpenter

  Observatory Scientist

  Dr. John Carpenter joined the ALMA Project in September 2015 as the ALMA Observatory Scientist. John received his PhD from (more…)

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  Violette Impellizzeri

  Operations Astronomer

  vimpelli@alma.cl

  Science Interests: Active galactic nuclei, high resolution molecular emission/absorption from tori, water mega-maser emission, accretion disks, supermassive black-holes, high-redshift lines, gravitational lensing, galaxy evolution.
  Technical interests: cm to mm/submm interferometry, VLBI and single dish spectroscopy. Calibration techniques and high fidelity imaging.

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  Elizabeth Humphreys

  Head of the Department of Science Operations

  Dr. Liz Humphreys joined the ALMA project in September 2009 as an astronomer in the European (more…)

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  Jorge Ibsen

  Head of the Department
  of Computing

  Jorge Ibsen joined the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1997, and spent many years (more…)

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  Norikazu Mizuno

  Head of ADE
  

  Norikazu received his PhD in Astrophysics, from School of Science, Nagoya University in 2001. He studied the properties of (more…)

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  Alejandra Voigt

  Executive Officer
  

  Alejandra Voigt, who joined ALMA on July 3rd 2014 as Executive Officer, is a lawyer from Universidad Católica and has a Master’s degree (more…)

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  Frank Ruseler

  Head of Administration

  Frank Ruseler joined ALMA on March 1, 2016 as JAO Head of Administration for the Joint ALMA Observatory.Frank has a Master (more…)

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  Rafael Mena

  Human Resources Manager

  Rafael joined ALMA at the start of 2015 as Human Resources Manager. Psychologist by profession, he wrote his thesis on organizational (more…)

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  Iván López

  Health, Safety, Security & Environment manager

  Ivan A. López our Health, Safety, Security & Environment Manager, joined ALMA on April 2010. (more…)

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  Valeria Foncea

  Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Officer

  Valeria is an experienced journalist from the Catholic University of Chile, who has an extensive career (more…)