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 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
Željko Ivezić, University of Washington

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 (Media Inquiries)
Ranpal Gill, AURA/LSST

Business Manager
Daniel Calabrese, AURA/LSST

Safety Manager
Chuck Gessner, AURA/LSST

Compliance & Quality Administrator
Veronica Kinnison, AURA/LSST

Senior Managers
Jeff Kantor & Ranpal Gill, AURA/LSST

Information Security Officer
 

Systems Engineering & Commissioning
Commissioning Manager, Chuck Claver, AURA/LSST
DOE Scientist/Deputy, Kevin Reil, SLAC

Education & Public Outreach
Head of EPO, Amanda Bauer, AURA/LSST
EPO Deputy, Lauren Corlies, AURA/LSST

Camera
Project Manager, Vincent Riot, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Subsystem Scientist, Steve Ritz, University of California - Santa Cruz

Telescope & Site
Project Manager, open
Subsystem Scientist, Sandrine Thomas, AURA/LSST

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

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 (Oct 1, 2018):  
  • Zeljko Ivezic (chair)
  • Chuck Claver (deputy chair)
  • Andrew Connolly
  • Leanne Guy
  • Steve Kahn
  • Robert Lupton
  • William O'Mullane
  • Steve Ritz
  • Christopher Stubbs
  • Sandrine Thomas
  • Tony Tyson
  • Bo Xin
  • Michael Strauss (ex officio)
  • Victor Krabbendam (ex officio)

Reports from the Project Science Team

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).
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 LSST in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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