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Maxime started his career in astronomy working with stellar interferometry teams in France and then the Antarctica site testing project with the University of New South Wales in Australia. He joined AURA in 1998 as the optical engineer at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory where he worked on a broad range of optical systems including active optics, coatings, seeing monitors, and optical design. He joined the optical systems group at Gemini in 2001 to develop and implement the protected silver coating process. He has served as the group leader and GeMS project manager until 2011. He obtained a degree of Industrial Engineering from Ecole des Mines d'Ales in France with a specialization in opto-mechanics and optoelectronics, a Master in Business Administration from IEDE and the project manager professional certification from the PMI. |
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Scot Kleinman joined us in 2007, most recently from the Subaru Telescope where he was the Instrument Division Chief. Prior, he served as the Site Science Manager/Deputy Head of Survey Operations for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey throughout the original SDSS survey. He has been the Associate Director of the Whole Earth Telescope and still sits on its board. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1995. Besides astronomical instruments, his research interests include variable objects, white dwarf stars, and large-scale surveys. |
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Chad Trujillo is an Astronomer at Gemini Observatory in Hilo. He obtained a BS in Physics from MIT in 1995 and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii in 2000. After work as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech he joined Gemini in 2003. At Gemini, he has been involved in the science operation of the Adaptive Optics system (Altair) guiding with both natural stars and laser beacons. His research interests include the Kuiper Belt, the solar system, star and planet formation and extrasolar planets. His recent work includes co-discovery and surface measurements of several of the largest Kuiper Belt Objects including the so-called "10th Planet", and co-discovery of the first high inclination Neptune trojan asteroid. |
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Stephen obtained his PhD from University of Durham in Optimization of NAOMI RTCS. Before coming to Gemini, he served as the Project Manager of the Centre for Advance Instrumentation at the University of Durham, UK. His varied background includes experience as an Instrumentation Manager, Software Engineer, and Research Scientist and he has worked for the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in La Palma, the University College of London, and DERA in the UK. |
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Eric has been at the UH Institute for Astronomy (IfA) since 2003, where he has been the Deputy Director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). His research interests have included high-resolution studies of the Galactic Center, deep near infrared ground-based surveys of galaxies, galaxy number counts, ultra-deep surveys with Spitzer, 1 to 20 um studies of star formation region, speckle interferometry, adaptive optics, and telescope optics. He obtained a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD for the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1987. |
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