Last year, with two retirements and a role change, we were in a position to review the existing leadership structure and imagine a new one.
Over several months, the ATNF team worked together to shape the leadership and program structure of the national facility to ensure we’re in a position to realise our vision for the ATNF into the future.
Our new leadership team. From left to right: Cathryn Trott, Daleen Koch, Mark Bowen, George Hobbs, Stephanie Smith, Keith Bannister, Douglas Boch, Celine d’Orgeville, Stephen Ord.
The individuals stepping into the eight ATNF leadership roles are:
Celine joins us after leading a very successful period of growth and success at the ANU Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre in her role as Director.
Daleen brings experience in remote area operations for radio astronomy, communications and maintenance that has ranged from drilling through Antarctic ice sheets to managing defence projects in Western Australia.
George was Acting Program Director for ATNF Science and before that our ATNF Science Group Leader for the East Coast. George started with CSIRO in 2002 as a Bolton Fellow.
In CSIRO, as our Antenna and Receiver Technologies Group Leader, Stephanie has led projects from end-to-end, from designing and building new receivers to seeing them enable advances in astronomy.
Stephen comes from leading CSIRO teams working on calibration and imaging software development for ASKAP and on the SKA project, developing real-time software systems for data ingest and calibration.
Cath is a Professor at ICRAR, where she leads the high redshift group at the Curtin University node, and has expertise in low-frequency radio astronomy and 21cm observations from the first billion years of the Universe using the MWA and future SKA telescopes. Most recently she worked as the SKA-Low Chief Operations Scientist with SKAO.
Keith is currently a CSIRO Principal Research Engineer, where he has worked on commissioning ASKAP and, in particular, the high-time resolution modes for fast radio burst searches. He originally joined the ATNF as a Bolton Fellow.
Mark has been Acting Program Director for Technologies for Radio Astronomy since July. He has deep experience in radio frequency systems and microwave engineering and was the Group Leader for ATNF Front End Technologies.
These strategic, innovative and collaborative leaders will guide our ATNF team and continue the facility’s outstanding research, innovation and service to the radio astronomy community.
Congratulations to the new team.