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He received his B.Sc. in Physics at Imperial College London, UK, in 1979, and Ph.D. in Astronomy at the University of Leicester, UK, in 1983. After a period as an optical astronomer at the University of St. Andrews, he returned to the infrared as a postdoctoral researcher at Lancashire Polytechnic, Preston, UK (now the University of Central Lancashire). After more than ten years at UCLAN, he moved to become Head of Operations at the UK Infrared Telescope in 1998. Principal research interests are the composition and physical properties of dust grains in the interstellar medium. Andy joined Gemini in May of 2010. |
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Fred Chaffee was the Interim Director for Gemini for a year starting May 16, 2011. He received his A.B. in physics from Dartmouth College in 1963 and his PhD in astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1968. After a 2-year postdoc at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, he relocated to Arizona to help install the first optical telescopes at the Mt. Hopkins (later Whipple) Observatory south of Tucson. He remained in Tucson for the next 26 years, the last 12 as director of the MMT Observatory. In 1996 he relocated to Hawaii to become the first director of the newly-commissioned W.M. Keck Observatory and remained in that position for a decade. He retired in 2007 and with his wife Diana now splits his time between Chapel Hill, NC and Menaggio, Italy. His hobbies include cycling, golf and classical piano. |
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Tom Hayward is an Associate Scientist at Gemini South. He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Wyoming in 1989, and was a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University before joining Gemini in 2000. At Gemini, Tom was the T-ReCS instrument scientist from 2000 to 2004, and has been the NICI instrument scientist since 2004. Tom's research interests are in the areas of mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of star-forming regions, circumstellar disks, and comets, in order to study properties of their dust and gas. |
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Paul Hirst obtained a Physics degree from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Leicester in 2000. At that point he took up a support astronomer position at the UK Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, where amongst other things he commissioned the UKIRT Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) being used to carry out the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). He moved the short distance to Gemini in 2006 to take up the position of Data Flow Project Scientist. His research interests include Active Galactic Nuclei and the high redshift universe. |
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Bryan Miller is an Astronomer with Tenure and Lead Scientist for Science Operations Development at Gemini Observatory. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington in 1994. He held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Space Telescope Science Institute from 1994 to 1997 and at the University of Leiden from 1997 through 1999. He has been a staff astronomer at Gemini since early 2000. His research interests include the star formation histories of dwarf galaxies, HII region abundances, globular cluster systems, merging galaxies, galactic dynamics and kinematically decoupled cores, and integral-field spectroscopy. |
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Bernadette Rodgers is Gemini South Head of Science Operations at Gemini South in La Serena. She obtained a PhD in Astronomy at the University of Washington in 2000 and came to Gemini as a Science Fellow shortly thereafter, in August 2000. Bernadette received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1984 and a Masters of Science in Physics from New York University in 1990. Before going into astronomy, she worked in the space industry for several years, first with Department of Defense satellites and then Space Shuttle science missions at NASA Ames Research Center. Bernadette's research is primarily related to star formation including intermediate-mass young stars and binary systems, circumstellar disks and disk activity as observed through optical and near-infrared spectroscopy. |