VAO, LLC: Governance

The Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) created the VAO, LLC to manage and operate the Virtual Astronomical Observatory for NSF and NASA. VAO Science Priorities are based upon input from the US astronomy community and in particular upon advice from the VAO Science Council. The Program Council works with the Program Manager and Director to define work packages and allocate budgets for the annual Project Execution Plan.

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VAO Director
Robert J. Hanisch
Space Telescope Science Institute
VAO LLC Treasurer
Deborah Narcisso
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc
VAO LLC Secretary
Cynthia Allen
Associated Universities, Inc.		 VAO Business Manager
Marie Huffman
Associated Universities, Inc.


 


Board of Directors

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Science Council

  • Giuseppina Fabbiano (Chair)
    Senior Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysic, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Daniela Calzetti
    Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • Christopher L. Carilli
    Chief Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • Paul Eskridge
    Associate Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Minnesota State University
  • Eric D. Feigelson
    Professor. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Pennsylvania State University
  • Zeljko Ivezic
    Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington
  • Alicia Soderberg
    Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Travis Rector
    Associate Professor. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage


VAO Team Consultants to the Science Council

  • George Djorgovski
    Professor, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
  • Alyssa Goodman
    Professor, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
  • Barry Madore
    Senior Research Associate, The Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena
  • Marc Postman
    Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute

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Program Council

  • Bruce Berriman, NASA/Infrared Processing and Analysis Cente (IPAC) (Chair)
  • Matthew Graham
    Caltech Center for Advanced Computational Research (CACR)
  • Thomas McGlynn
    NASA/ High Energy Astrophysical Science Archive Research (HEASARC)
  • Joseph Mazzarella
    NASA/Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
  • Ani Thakar
    The Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
  • Raymond Plante
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
  • Elizabeth B. Stobie
    National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  • Doug Tody
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • Arnold Rots
    Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Gretchen Greene
    Space Telescope Science Institute

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