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The Rubin Observatory Team

The effort to build Rubin Observatory is a partnership between public and private organizations, which is actively being supported and developed by more than one hundred astronomers, physicists, and engineers spanning the globe. They see Rubin Observatory as the next big leap in charting the heavens and probing nature's mysteries as well as an exciting technological challenge and a new model for doing science with big data.

 

Rubin Observatory Director
Željko Ivezić, University of Washington

Rubin Observatory Deputy Director (NSF)
Sandrine Thomas, AURA/Rubin Observatory
Rubin Observatory Deputy Director (DOE)
Aaron Roodman, SLAC

Chief Scientist
J. Anthony Tyson, University of California - Davis

Project Manager
Victor Krabbendam, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Deputy Project Manager (Sware & IT)
William O'Mullane, AURA/Rubin Observatory

System Scientist
Chuck Claver, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Project Scientist
Steve Ritz, University of California - Santa Cruz
Federica Bianco (Deputy) - U. Delaware

Project Controls Specialist
Kevin Long, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Communications Manager (Media Inquiries)
Ranpal Gill, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Safety Manager
Sandra Romero, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Operations Leadership
Operations Director, Robert Blum, Rubin Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab
Deputy Director for Operations (DOE), Phil Marshall, SLAC
 

Senior Managers
Daniel Calabrese. AURA/Rubin Observatory
Ranpal Gill, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Systems Commissioning
Commissioning Scientist, Robert Lupton, Princeton
Project Manager, Anastasia Alexov, AURA/Rubin Observatory

System Integration
Observatory Scientist, Kevin Reil, SLAC
Project Manager, Anastasia Alexov, AURA/Rubin Observatory,

Systems Verification & Validation
Systems Engineering Manager, Holgar Drass, AURA/Rubin Observatory
Validation Scientist, Keith Bechtol, U. Wisconsin

Camera
Project Manager, Travis Lange, SLAC
LSST Camera Program Lead for SLAC/DOE, Aaron Roodman, SLAC
Subsystem Scientist, Steve Ritz, University of California - Santa Cruz

Telescope & Site
Project Manager, Jeff Barr, AURA/Rubin Observatory
Subsystem Scientist, Sandrine Thomas, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Data Management
Project Manager, William O'Mullane, AURA/Rubin Observatory
Subsystem Scientist, Leanne Guy, AURA/Rubin Observatory

Project Science Team

The Project Science Team (PST) serves as an operational unit, within the Project, that carries out specific scientific performance investigations as prioritized by the Director, the Project Manager, and the Project Scientist. Its membership includes key scientists on the Project who provide specific necessary expertise. The Project Science Team provides required scientific input on critical technical decisions as the project construction proceeds.

Project Science Team Members (Jan 20, 2022):  
  • Tony Tyson
  • Sandrine Thomas
  • Christopher Stubbs
  • Aaron Roodman
  • Robert Lupton
  • Steve Kahn
  • Mario Juric
  • Zeljko Ivezic
  • Leanne Guy
  • Andrew Connolly
  • Chuck Claver
  • Federica Bianco
  • Steve Ritz (chair)
  • Bob Blum (ex officio)
  • Victor Krabbendam (ex officio)
  • Michael Strauss (ex officio)

Reports from the Project Science Team

Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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