New CASS Chief appointed
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1 February 2013
CSIRO's astronomy, spacecraft tracking and space science activities will be headed up by a new leader, with the announcement that Dr Lewis Ball has been appointed as the incoming Chief for CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) division.
Dr Ball returns to CSIRO from his present role as Deputy Director at the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) located in Chile.
As the new CASS Chief, Dr Ball will be responsible for the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), including three existing radio telescopes: Parkes, Australia Telescope Compact Array and Mopra, as well as ASKAP. Dr Ball will also be responsible for driving CSIRO's contribution to the first phase of the Square Kilometre Array telescope in Australia and head up, on behalf of NASA, the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex based at Tidbinbilla.
Dr Ball's appointment fills the role made vacant by Dr Phil Diamond, who left CSIRO in October 2012 to take up the position of Director General of the SKA Organisation.
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