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DESI Team and Contacts

DESI Leadership Team

DOE Oversight

  • Kathleen Turner - DOE/HQ Program Manager

DESI Operations Team

NOIRLab Contacts

Science Committee (SciCom)

Ex-officio members

  • Project Scientists: Julien Guy & David Schlegel
  • Data Systems Manager: Stephen Bailey, Ashley Ross, Joe DeRose?
  • Spokespersons: Will Percival & Alexie Leauthaud

Working Group Leads

also see: https://desi.lbl.gov/trac/wiki/ManagementPages/TableofWGLeads

  • Enrique Paillas - Galaxy & Quasar Clustering WG co-Chair
  • Arnaud de Matia - Galaxy & Quasar Clustering WG co-Chair
  • Eric Armengaud - Lyman-alpha Forest WG co-Chair
  • Andrei Cuceu - Lyman-alpha Forest WG co-Chair
  • Rossana Ruggeri - Clustering, Clusters & Cross-Correlation WG co-Chair
  • Boryana Hadzhiyska - Clustering, Clusters & Cross-Correlation WG co-Chair
  • Julian Bautista - Transients and Low-redshift Cosmology WG co-Chair
  • Antonella Palmese - Transients and Low-redshift Cosmology WG co-Chair
  • Willem Elbers - Cosmology Parameter Estimation WG co-Chair
  • Cristhian Garcia-Quintero - Cosmology Parameter Estimation WG co-Chair
  • Rita Tojeiro - Galaxy & Quasar Physics WG co-Chair
  • Dirk Scholte - Galaxy & Quasar Physics WG co-Chair
  • Hee-Jong Seo - DESI-II WG co-Chair
  • Christophe Yeche - DESI-II WG co-Chair
  • Joan Najita - Milky Way Survey WG co-Chair
  • Leandro Beraldo e Silva - Milky Way Survey WG co-Chair

Former Project Organization for Science

Year 1 Key Project Conveners

  • KP1 (Data Release of the Survey Validation): Kyle Dawson and Christophe Yèche
  • KP2 (Data Release of the Year 1 data): Carlos Allende Prieto and John Moustakas
  • KP3 (Large-Scale Structure and 2-point measurements): Ashley Ross, Rongpu Zhou and Cheng Zhao
  • KP4 (BAO from 2-point clustering): Nikhil Padmanabhan and Hee-Jong Seo
  • KP5 (Full-shape analysis): Hector Gil-Marin and Pauline Zarrouk
  • KP6 (Lyman-alpha): Andreu Font-Ribera and Alma Gonzalez Morales
  • KP7 (Likelihood): Dragan Huterer, Eva-Maria Mueller and Mustapha Ishak

Former Project Organization for Construction

Level 1

  • Project Director - Michael Levi
  • Project Manager - Robert Besuner
  • Safety Officer - Ingrid Peterson
  • Project Scientist - Julien Guy, David Schlegel
  • Systems Engineer - Stewart Harris
  • Commissioning Scientist - Connie Rockosi
  • Instrument Scientist - Paul Martini

Level 2

Project Office (WBS 1.1)

Corrector & Optical System (WBS 1.2)

Corrector Barrel & Cage (WBS 1.3)

Focal Plane System (WBS 1.4)

Fiber System (WBS 1.5)

Spectrographs (WBS 1.6)

Instrument Control System (WBS 1.7)

Data System (WBS 1.8)

Assembly, Integration & Test (WBS 1.9)

Executive Committee

  • Lori Allen
  • Kyle Dawson
  • Daniel Eisenstein
  • Klaus Honscheid
  • Richard Kron
  • Ofer Lahav
  • Alexie Leauthaud
  • Michael Levi (chair)
  • Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
  • Will Percival
  • David Schlegel
  • Gregory Tarlé

Institutional Board

Voting

(Note "RPG" = "Regional Participation Group")

  • AMU RPG - Eric Jullo
  • Arizona - Xiaohui Fan
  • Barcelona - Madrid RPG - Francisco Castander fjcastander@gmail.com
  • China RPG - Hu Zou
  • Durham - Carlos Frenk
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Jean-Paul Kneib
  • FNAL - Juan Estrada
  • Harvard - Daniel Eisenstein (co-Chair) Non-Voting
  • KASI - Yong-Seon Song
  • LBNL - David Schlegel
  • Mexico RPG - Axel de la Macorra
  • Michigan - Gregory Tarlé gtarle@umich.edu
  • NOIRLab - Stephanie Juneau
  • OSU - Klaus Honscheid
  • Portsmouth - Robert Crittenden
  • Saclay - Christophe Yeche
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Ying Zu
  • SLAC - Risa Wechsler
  • St. Andrews - Rita Tojeiro (co-Chair) Non-Voting
  • UK RPG - John Peacock
  • U. California Berkeley - Claire Poppett
  • U. California Santa Cruz - Connie Rockosi
  • U. College London - Ofer Lahav
  • U. Edinburgh - Florian Beutler
  • Yale - Nikhil Padmanabhan

Non Voting (At-Large representatives are Tamara Davis (voting) and Alexandre Refregier)

  • Universidad de los Andes - Jamie Forero
  • Argonne National Laboratory - Katrin Heitmann
  • U. Barcelona - Licia Verde
  • Brookhaven National Lab - Anze Slosar
  • Boston U. - James Rohlf
  • Carnegie Melon U. - Antonella Palmese
  • Cornell - Rachel Bean
  • ETH Zürich - Alexandre Refregier
  • U. Florida - Zachary Slepian
  • GMT RPG - Francisco Prada
  • U. Guanajuato Mexico-RPG - Gustavo Niz
  • Harvard - Daniel Eisenstein
  • U. California Irvine - David Kirkby
  • Kansas State - Lado Samushia
  • KIAS - Changbom Park
  • LineA - Flávia Sobreira
  • LPNHE - Pauline Zarrouk
  • Max Planck - Ariel Sanchez
  • New York - Jeremy Tinker
  • National Taiwan University - Ting-Wen Lan
  • Ohio U. - Hee-Jong Seo
  • Pennsylvania - Ravi Sheth
  • Perimeter Institute - Dustin Lang
  • Pittsburgh - Jeffrey Newman
  • Queensland - Tamara Davis
  • Rochester - Regina Demina
  • Siena College - John Moustakas
  • Southern Methodist U. - Robert Kehoe
  • Swinburne U. - Chris Blake
  • U. Toronto - Ray Carlberg
  • U. Texas at Dallas - Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki
  • Utah - Kyle Dawson
  • Waterloo - Will Percival
  • Wyoming - Adam Myers
  • Zürich - Jaiyul Yoo

IB Secretary

  • Michael Schubnell

Ex-Officio

  • Julien Guy
  • Alexie Leathaud
  • Michael Levi
  • Will Percival
  • David Schlegel

Committees

Publications Board

  • Shadab Alam
  • Alejandro Aviles avilescervantes@gmail.com (co-chair)
  • Segev Benzvi
  • Violeta Gonzalez-Perez violeta.gonzalez@uam.es (co-chair)
  • Jiamin Hou
  • Benjamin Joachimi
  • Elisabeth Krause
  • Alex Krolewski
  • Paul Martini
  • James Rohlf
  • Ting Tan
  • Martin White
  • Siyi Xu
  • Jiaxi Yu
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

Speakers Board

  • Vid Irsic
  • Tesla Jeltema
  • Francisco-Shu Kitaura
  • Nikhil Padmanabhan
  • Eusebio Sanchez
  • Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde
  • Mariana Vargas-Magaña mmaganav@fisica.unam.mx (co-chair)
  • Zheng Zheng zhengzheng@astro.utah.edu (co-chair)
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

Meetings Committee

  • Etienne Burtin
  • Yu-ling Chang
  • Shaun Cole
  • Cullan Howlett c.howlett@uq.edu.au (co-chair)
  • Lado Samushia
  • Michael Schubnell schubnel@umich.edu (co-chair)
  • Luke Tyas
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Committee

  • Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim
  • Otavio Alves
  • Simon Bouchard
  • Moustapha Ishak
  • Claire Lamman
  • Andrea Muñoz Gutierrez andreamgtz@ciencias.unam.mx (co-chair)
  • Joan Najita
  • Farnik Nikakhtar
  • Hernan Rincon
  • Sindhu Satyavolu
  • Wynne Turner turner.1839@osu.edu (co-chair)
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

Early Career Scientist (ECS) Committee

Membership Committee

  • Camille Avestruz
  • Jorge L. Cervantes Cota
  • Robert Crittenden
  • Daniel Eisenstein
  • Stephanie Escoffier
  • Sean Fagan
  • Oleg Gnedin
  • Ramon Miquel rmiquel@ifae.es (co-chair)
  • John Peacock
  • Arman Shafieloo shafieloo@kasi.re.kr (co-chair)
  • Gong-Bo Zhao
  • Ying Zu
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

eXternal Collaboration Committee (XCC)

  • Santiago Avila
  • Xiaohui Fan
  • Ginevra Favole
  • Juan Garcia-Bellido
  • Eric Jullo eric.jullo@lam.fr (chair)
  • Francesco Sinigaglia
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro
  • Committee information

Professional Development Committee

  • Abby Bault
  • Becky Canning
  • Yu-Ling Chang
  • Katia Cunha
  • Bob Kehoe kehoe@physics.smu.edu (co-chair)
  • Bernardita Reid Guachalla
  • Anna Porredon
  • Shun Saito saitos@mst.edu (co-chair)
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

Press Coordinators

  • Carlos Frenk
  • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho
  • Ofer Lahav
  • Jeff Newman janewman@pitt.edu (chair)
  • Graziano Rossi
  • Ex-officio members
    • Daniel Eisenstein
    • Alexie Leauthaud
    • Michael Levi
    • Will Percival
    • Rita Tojeiro

DESI Ombudspeople

A link to the Ombuds policy can be found on the public wiki page.

DESI Lead Observing Scientists

  • Ann Elliott
  • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho
  • Nabendu Khan
  • Martin Landriau
  • Claire Poppett
  • Michael Schubnell
  • Luke Tyas
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