DESI Team and Contacts
- DESI Team and Contacts
DESI Leadership Team
- Michael Levi melevi@lbl.gov - DESI Director
- Will Percival and Alexie Leauthaud spokespersons@desi.lbl.gov - Co-Spokespeople
- Patrick Jelinsky PNJelinsky@lbl.gov - Operations Manager
- Julien Guy jguy@lbl.gov - Co-Project Scientist
- David Schlegel djschlegel@lbl.gov - Co-Project Scientist
- Klaus Honscheid kh@physics.osu.edu - Co-Instrument Scientist
- Connie Rockosi crockosi@ucolick.org - Co-Instrument Scientist
- Gregory Tarle gtarle@umich.edu - Institutional Board Chair
DOE Oversight
- Kathleen Turner - DOE/HQ Program Manager
DESI Operations Team
- Michael Levi melevi@lbl.gov - Operations Director
- Patrick Jelinsky pnjelinsky@lbl.gov - Operations Manager
- Yaling Zhu yaling@berkeley.edu - Deputy Operations Manager
- Ingrid Peterson ibpeterson@lbl.gov - Safety Officer
- David Sprayberry david.sprayberry@noirlab.edu - WBS 3.2 Telescope & Site
- Claire Poppett CLPoppett@lbl.gov - WBS 3.3 Observing
- Klaus Honscheid kh@physics.osu.edu - WBS 3.4 Instrument
- Eddie Schlafly eschlafly@gmail.com - WBS 3.5 Survey Operations
- Stephen Bailey stephenbailey@lbl.gov - WBS 3.6 Data Management
- David Kirkby dkirkby@uci.edu - WBS 3.4.2 Focal Plane Manager
- Michael Schubnell schubnel@umich.edu - WBS 3.4.2 Focal Plane Scientist
NOIRLab Contacts
- Lori Allen lori.allen@noirlab.edu - KPNO Director
- Arjun Dey arjun.dey@noirlab.edu - NOIRLab Project Scientist
- David Sprayberry david.sprayberry@noirlab.edu - NOIRLab Project Manager and Technical Liaison
- Richard Joyce richard.joyce@noirlab.edu - NOIRLab Mayall Telescope Scientist
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
- Enrique Paillas - Galaxy & Quasar Clustering WG co-Chair
- Seshadri Nadathur - 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
- Mustapha Ishak - Cosmology Parameter Estimation WG co-Chair
- Rita Tojeiro - Galaxy & Quasar Physics WG co-Chair
- Malgorzata (Gosia) Siudek - Galaxy & Quasar Physics WG Chair
- Hee-Jong Seo - DESI-II WG co-Chair
- Christophe Yeche - DESI-II WG co-Chair
- Ting Li - 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
- Spokespeople - Kyle Dawson, Alexie Leauthaud
- Instrument Scientist - Paul Martini
Level 2
Project Office (WBS 1.1)
- Robert Besuner rwbesuner@lbl.gov - Project Manager
- Stewart Harris seharris@lbl.gov - Systems Engineer
- Daniela Leitner dleitner@lbl.gov - QA Manager
- Sally Wine scwine@lbl.gov - Project Controls
- Ingrid Peterson ibpeterson@lbl.gov - Project Safety Officer
- Trish Dobson pwdobson@lbl.gov - Deputy Project Manager
Corrector & Optical System (WBS 1.2)
- Peter Doel apd@star.ucl.ac.uk - Manager
- David Brooks David.Brooks@ucl.ac.uk - Optics Engineer
- Tim Miller tmiller@ssl.berkeley.edu - Optics Engineer
Corrector Barrel & Cage (WBS 1.3)
- Gaston Gutierrez gaston@fnal.gov - Manager
- Giuseppe Gallo ggallo@fnal.gov - Mechanical Engineer
- Andy Stefanik stefanik@fnal.gov - Mechanical Engineer
Focal Plane System (WBS 1.4)
- Joseph Silber jhsilber@lbl.gov- Manager
- David Rabinowitz david.rabinowitz@yale.edu - Guide / Focus Sensors
- Greg Tarlé gtarle@umich.edu - Positioners
- Jean-Paul Kneib jean-paul.kneib@epfl.ch - Positioners
- Charles Baltay charles.baltay@yale.edu - Fiber View Camera
- Ramon Miquel rmiquel@ifae.es - Guide / Focus Sensors
Fiber System (WBS 1.5)
- Claire Poppett clpoppett@lbl.gov - Manager
- Ray Sharples r.m.sharples@durham.ac.uk - UK Manager
Spectrographs (WBS 1.6)
- Patrick Jelinsky pnjelinsky@lbl.gov - Manager
- Jerry Edelstein jedelstein@lbl.gov - Spectrographs Scientist
- Pierre-Eric Blanc pierre-eric.blanc@oamp.fr - OHP Project Manager
- Aurélia Secroun secroun@cppm.in2p3.fr - Calibrations
- Paul Martini martini.10@osu.edu - Spectrograph Mechanisms Lead
- Mark Derwent derwent.1@osu.edu
- Thomas P. O'Brien obrien@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Armin Karcher akarcher@lbl.gov - Detector & Electronics Lead
- Christophe Magneville christophe.magneville@cea.fr - Cryostat Lead
- Pierre-Henri Carton pierre-henri.carton@cea.fr - Cryostat Systems
- Juan Cruz Estrada estrada@fnal.gov - Detector Packaging
Instrument Control System (WBS 1.7)
- Klaus Honscheid kh@physics.osu.edu - Manager
- Ann Elliott elliotta@mps.ohio-state.edu- Instrument Control Engineer
Data System (WBS 1.8)
- Stephen Bailey stephenbailey@lbl.gov - Manager
- David Kirkby dkirkby@uci.edu - Data System Scientist
- Kyle Dawson kdawson@astro.utah.edu - Survey planning and operations
- Robert Cahn rncahn@lbl.gov - Fiber Assignment Lead
- Julien Guy jguy@lbl.gov - Spectroscopic Pipeline Lead
- Lado Samushia lado@phys.ksu.edu - Large Scale Structure Catalog
- Benjamin Weaver - Data Transfer, Archive & Distribution
- Stephen Bailey stephenbailey@lbl.gov - Integration & Testing of Data Systems
- Dustin Lang dstn@cmu.edu - DESI Imaging Scientist
- Adam Myers geordiemyers@gmail.com - Target Selection Pipeline
Assembly, Integration & Test (WBS 1.9)
- Robert Besuner rwbesuner@lbl.gov - AI&T Manager
- Klaus Honscheid kh@physics.osu.edu - AI&T Scientist
- David Sprayberry david.sprayberry@noirlab.edu - NOIRLab DESI Project Manager
- Dick Joyce richard.joyce@noirlab.edu - NOIRLab Mayall Telescope Scientist
- Paul Martini martini.10@osu.edu - Instrument Scientist
- Connie Rockosi crockosi@ucolick.org - Commissioning Scientist
Executive Committee
- Lori Allen
- Kyle Dawson
- Daniel Eisenstein
- Brenna Flaugher
- Klaus Honscheid
- Richard Kron
- Ofer Lahav
- Michael Levi (chair)
- Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
- David Schlegel
- Gregory Tarlé
Institutional Board
Voting
(Note "RPG" = "Regional Participation Group")
- AMU RPG - Eric Jullo
- Arizona - Xiaohui Fan
- Barcelona - Madrid RPG - Francisco Castander (Deputy Chair)
- China RPG - Hu Zou
- Durham - Carlos Frenk
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Jean-Paul Kneib
- FNAL - Elizabeth Buckley-Geer
- KASI - Yong-Seon Song
- LBNL - David Schlegel
- Mexico RPG - Axel de la Macorra
- Michigan - Gregory Tarlé (Chair)
- NOIRLab - Lori Allen
- OSU - Klaus Honscheid
- Portsmouth - Robert Crittenden
- Saclay - Christophe Yeche
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Ying Zu
- SLAC - Risa Wechsler
- 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 - Charles Baltay
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 - Christophe Balland
- 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 (co-chair)
- Segev Benzvi
- Violeta Gonzalez-Perez (co-chair)
- Jiamin Hou
- Benjamin Joachimi
- Alex Krolewski
- Paul Martini
- Gustavo Niz
- David Parkinson
- Ting Tan
- Martin White
- Siyi Xu
- Jiaxi Yu
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexie Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
Speakers Board
- Florian Beutler
- Vid Irsic
- Tesla Jeltema
- Francisco-Shu Kitaura
- Eusebio Sanchez
- Monica Valluri
- Mariana Vargas-Magaña
- Zheng Zheng (chair)
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexie Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
Meetings Committee
- Charlie Baltay
- Jorge Cervantes-Cota
- Yu-ling Chang
- Cullan Howlett
- Lado Samushia
- Graziano Rossi (chair)
- Michael Schubnell
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexie Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Committee
- Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim
- Biprateep Dey
- Tanveer Karim
- Claire Lamman (co-chair)
- Marc Manera
- Andrea Muñoz Gutierrez
- Joan Najita (co-chair)
- Farnik Nikakhtar
- Bernardita Ried Guachalla
- Wynne Turner
- Ex-officio members
- Alexie Leathaud
- Francisco Castander
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
- Gregory Tarlé
Early Career Scientist (ECS) Committee
- Rasa Cereskaite
- Jonas Chaves-Montero jchaves@ifae.es
- Zhejie Ding
- Sven Heydenreich sheydenr@ucsc.edu
- Anthony Kremin (co-chair) akremin@lbl.gov
- Namitha Kizhuprakkat Ramachandran (co-chair) s109025891@m109.nthu.edu.tw
- Jamie McCullough?
- Vaisakh Rajeev
- Caitlin Ross
Membership Committee
- Camille Avestruz
- Shaun Cole (co-chair)
- Robert Crittenden
- Daniel Eisenstein
- Stephanie Escoffier
- Sean Fagan
- Oleg Gnedin
- Shahab Joudaki
- Ramon Miquel (co-chair)
- Arman Shafieloo
- Yong-Seon Song
- Gong-Bo Zhao
- Ying Zu
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexi Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
eXternal Collaboration Committee (XCC)
- Santiago Avila
- Ginevra Favole
- Xiaohui Fan
- Eric Jullo (chair)
- Song Huang
- Alice Pisani
- Francesco Sinigaglia
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexie Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
- Committee information
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee
- Abhijeet Anand
- Abby Bault
- Becky Canning (co-chair)
- Katia Cunha
- Vicky Fawcett
- Klaus Honsheid
- Bob Kehoe (co-chair)
- Adam Myers
- Anna Porredon
- Shun Saito
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexie Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
Sustainability Committee (ad hoc)
- Steve Ahlen (Chair)
- Etienne Burtin
- Jesse Han
- Johannes Lange
- Martine Lokken
- Noah Weaverdyck
- Ben White
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Kyle Dawson
- Michael Levi
- Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
- Gregory Tarlé
Press Coordinators
- Carlos Frenk
- Satya Gontcho-a-Gontcho
- Ofer Lahav
- Jeff Newman (chair)
- Ex-officio members
- Francisco Castander
- Alexie Leathaud
- Michael Levi
- Will Percival
- Gregory Tarlé
DESI Ombudspeople
A link to the Ombuds policy can be found on the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion page.
- Tamara Davis (tamarad@physics.uq.edu.au)
- Carlos Frenk (c.s.frenk@Durham.ac.uk)
DESI Lead Observing Scientists
- Elizabeth Buckley-Geer
- Ann Elliott
- Parker Fagrelius
- Satya Gontcho A Gontcho
- Martin Landriau
- James Lasker
- Claire Poppett
- Michael Schubnell
- Luke Tyas
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