Tim Cornwell joins ATNF

Tim Cornwell

We are pleased to announce that Tim Cornwell has joined ATNF as a senior software scientist in the Science Computing Group. Tim comes from NRAO, Socorro, where he held many different positions, from post-doctoral fellow in the early eighties to Associate Director from 2000 to 2003. He has worked on many aspects of radio astronomy from radio jet observations with the VLA to operations of the VLBA to design of the Millimeter Array (now ALMA). His prime interest lies in the processing of radio synthesis observations to produce scientific results. He has made many key contributions in this area, including self-calibration and mosaicing. He has worked on the development of software packages for processing, including contributing to AIPS and managing the AIPS++ Project from 1995 to 2000. His role at the ATNF will be to contribute to the development of xNTD and SKA. The ATNF and the Australian SKA development projects are fortunate to have the benefit of Tim's immense experience in radioastronomy.

He and Judi set some sort of record in making an offer on a house within ten days of arriving here. They are now happily resident in Thornleigh and enjoying Sydney immensely. We welcome them both.

Dave McConnell
(David.McConnell@csiro.au)