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OBSERVATORY SCIENCESMEET THE TEAM
Andrew Foster
Andy has a Doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge. After working for 3 years at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, he joined Observatory Sciences in 2001 and has been a company Director since 2005. He has spent much of the last 12 years based at Diamond Light Source, his work includes responsibility for the MX beamlines control software |
Alan Greer
Alan has a Masters degree in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford. After working at BAE Systems for two years he joined Observatory Sciences in 2003 and has been a company director since 2010. Alan's work includes Telescope control, motion control and high performance detector systems, as well as project management. |
Philip Taylor
Philip has a Masters degree in Astronomy from the University of Sussex. After working for the Royal Greenwich Observatory for 20 years, including many visits to the telescopes being commissioned on La Palma in the Canary Islands, he was a founder member of Observatory Sciences Ltd in 1998. |
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Alastair Borrowman
Alastair joined Observatory Sciences in 2008, having worked at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC) in Edinburgh for 9 years. During his time at UKATC he was based at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, working on control software for the VISTA telescope. He is based in our Kirkcaldy office where he leads the team responsible for maintenance and upgrades of the European Southern Observatory VLT/VLTI software infrastructure. |
Ulrik Pedersen
Ulrik has a degree in Electronic Engineering from Aarhus, Denmark. Since 2005 Ulrik has been working with X-Ray photon beamlines at Diamond Light Source, designing, developing and providing operational support for SCADA systems, primarily based on the EPICS distributed control systems. From 2016 and until joining Observatory Sciences in 2022 he was managing and leading the Beamline Controls Group at Diamond. |
Rebecca Williams
Becky obtained a Doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge on the subject of high-redshift galaxies. Since joining OSL in 2017, she has been working on control software for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), including the CryoNIRSP infrared instrument being built by the University of Hawaii. |
Elizabeth Hudson
Liz joined Observatory Sciences in 2019, having had experience of supporting Directors in a variety of different sectors including Aerospace, Venture Capital, Pharma and Biotech. She is responsible for organising company travel and events, accounting, and general office administration. |
Kieran Mulholland
Kieran obtained a Doctorate in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the University of the West of Scotland. Now based in the OSL office in Kirkcaldy, he is a member of the team responsible for maintenance and upgrades of the European Southern Observatory VLT/VLTI software infrastructure. |
Thomas Ives
Thomas obtained a Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh on the topic
of swimming micro-organisms in complex fluids. Based in the OSL
office in Kirkcaldy, he is a member of the team responsible for
maintenance and upgrades of the European Southern Observatory VLT/VLTI
software infrastructure. |
Adam Clemens
Adam obtained a doctorate in astrophysical plasmas from Queen Mary University of London on the interactions of spacecraft thrusters with the solar wind at extreme solar proximities. Based in the OSL office in St Ives he has been working on TANGO based device servers for motion control systems. |
Alistair Child
Alistair has a Master’s Degree in Physics from Loughborough University, with 2 years working at the University. His work involved developing simulations in C++ and creating algorithms in Python for the analysis of data from the Advanced Light Source (AWS) in Berkeley. Since Joining OSL in August 2022 he has been involved as a Software Engineer for the SKA project. |
Philip Smith
Phil has a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of York specialising in astronomy and high performance computing. Since moving to the St Ives office he has been working on the SCADA system for project CHIMERA. This project for UKAEA has involved the creation of a C++ driver, python test scripts, EPICS database files and the building of GUIs. |
Elliot Scott
Elliot obtained a Master’s degree in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge. Based in the OSL office in St Ives, he has been working on the Monitoring, Control and Calibration System for the low-frequency portion of the Square Kilometre Array. |
Matthew MacIntosh
Matthew has a Master's degree in Computational Physics from the University of Edinburgh. Based in the OSL office in Dunfermline, he is part of the team responsible for the maintenance and upgrades of the European Southern Observatory VLT/VLTI software infrastructure. |
Emma Arandjelović
Emma has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Warwick and spent ten years working on beamline control systems at Diamond Light Source and the Australian Synchrotron. Since joining Observatory Sciences, Emma's work has included delivering EPICS training to various clients and developing software to support the European Southern Observatory VLT/VLTI. Most recently she has joined the team working on the Square Kilometre Array project. |
Tom Moynihan
Tom obtained a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Exeter, with 2 years' experience working in material science and manufacturing. Since starting in 2023 he has joined the SKA team, working on the Monitoring, Control and Calibration System. |
Bryn Roberts
Bryn obtained a Doctorate in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of Warwick. His main work studied the decay of particles detected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The analysis of this data was completed using C++ and Python. He also worked on automating a calibration workflow for the ATLAS detector. After completing his studies Bryn joined the OSL office in Oxford in March 2023. |
Benjamin Carpenter
Ben has a degree in Computational Physics from the University of Edinburgh. Ben joined the OSL office in Dunfermline in 2023, as part of the team responsible for the maintenance and upgrades of the European Southern Observatory VLT/VLTI software infrastructure. |