Opening a Window of Discovery on the Dynamic Universe

The LSST Team

The effort to build the LSST is 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, who see the LSST as the next big leap in charting the heavens and probing nature's mysteries as well as seeing it as an exciting technological challenge and a new model for doing science with big data.

 

LSST Director
Steven Kahn, AURA/LSST & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

LSST Deputy Director
Beth Willman, AURA/LSST & Steward Observatory

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

Project Manager
Victor Krabbendam, AURA/LSST

Project Scientist
Željko Ivezić, University of Washington

Project Controls Specialist
Kevin Long, AURA LSST

Communications Manager
Suzanne Jacoby, AURA/LSST

Business Manager
Daniel Calabrese, AURA/LSST

Safety Manager
Chuck Gessner, AURA/LSST

Compliance & Quality Administrator
Veronica Kinnison, AURA/LSST

Information Security Officer
Alex Withers, NCSA/University of Illinois

Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering Manager, George Angeli, AURA/LSST
Systems Scientist, Chuck Claver, AURA/LSST

Education & Public Outreach
Project Manager, Ben Emmons, AURA/LSST
Project Scientist, Tim Axelrod, University of Arizona

Camera
Project Manager, Nadine Kurita, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Project Scientist, Steve Ritz, University of California - Santa Cruz

Telescope & Site
Project Manager, Bill Gressler, AURA/LSST
Project Scientist, Sandrine Thomas, AURA/LSST

Data Management
Subsystem Lead, Mario Jurić, AURA/LSST
Project Manager, Jacek Becla, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Project Scientist, Željko Ivezić, University of Washington

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 (Jun 8, 2015):  
  • Zeljko Ivezic (chair)
  • Chuck Claver
  • Andrew Connolly
  • Mario Juric
  • Steve Kahn
  • Robert Lupton
  • Steve Ritz
  • Christopher Stubbs
  • Sandrine Thomas
  • Tony Tyson
  • Beth Willman
  • George Angeli (ex officio)
  • Victor Krabbendam (ex officio)
  • Michael Strauss (ex officio)

Financial support for LSST 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 LSST 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 LSST camera is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). 


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