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
• Daniel Eisenstein ​deisenstein@cfa.harvard.edu - Institutional Board Co-Chair
• Rita Tojeiro ​rmftr@st-andrews.ac.uk - Institutional Board Co-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
• Ingrid Peterson ​ibpeterson@lbl.gov - Safety Officer
• Parker Fagrelius ​parker.fagrelius@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
  • David Kirkby ​dkirkby@uci.edu - WBS 3.4.2 Focal Plane Manager
  • Michael Schubnell ​schubnel@umich.edu - WBS 3.4.2 Focal Plane Scientist
• Segev Benzvi ​sbenzvi@ur.rochester.edu and Adam Myers ​geordiemyers@gmail.com - WBS 3.5 Survey Operations
• Stephen Bailey ​stephenbailey@lbl.gov - WBS 3.6 Data Management
• Joe DeRose ​jderose@bnl.gov - WBS 3.7 Cross Analysis Infrastructure

NOIRLab Contacts

• Lori Allen ​lori.allen@noirlab.edu - MSO Director
• Arjun Dey ​arjun.dey@noirlab.edu - NOIRLab Project Scientist
• Parker Fagrelius ​parker.fagrelius@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

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)

• 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
• Klaus Honscheid
• Richard Kron
• Ofer Lahav
• Alexie Leauthaud
• Michael Levi (chair)
• Pat McCarthy?
• Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
• Will Percival
• David Schlegel
• Gregory Tarlé
• Rita Tojeiro

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
• Mustapha 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

• Rasa Cereskaite
• Sven Heydenreich ​sheydenr@ucsc.edu
• Anthony Kremin
• Vaisakh Rajeev ​vvaisakh@smu.edu (co-chair)
• Caitlin Ross ​c.ross1@uq.net.au (co-chair)
• Jaide Swanson
• Guillaume Thomas
• Navya Uberoi
• Siyi Zhao

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.

• Tamara Davis (​tamarad@physics.uq.edu.au)
• Carlos Frenk (​c.s.frenk@Durham.ac.uk)

DESI Lead Observing Scientists

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