IRIS

First Light Instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

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IRIS Team Members

IRIS is a multi-institutional collaboration from USA, Canada, China, India and Japan.

IRIS Active Science Team Members:

  • David Anderson (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Lee Armus (Caltech-IPAC)
  • Aaron Barth (UCI)
  • Shashi Bhushan Pandey (ARIES, Manora Peak, Nainital, India)
  • Eric Chisholm (TMT)
  • Jeffrey Cooke (Swinburne)
  • Maren Cosens (UCSD)
  • Patrick Cote (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Timothy Davidge (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Katherine de Kleer (Caltech)
  • Tuan Do (UCLA)
  • Christoph Dumas (TMT)
  • Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
  • Satoshi Hamano (NAOJ)
  • Lei Hao (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)
  • Yutaka Hayano (NAOJ)
  • Matt Hosek (Berkeley)
  • James Larkin (UCLA)
  • Mike Liu (U. Hawaii)
  • Jessica Lu (Berkeley)
  • Shude Mao (NAOC-Beijing)
  • Christian Marois (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Anne Medling (Univ. of Toledo)
  • Anna Nierenberg (UC Merced)
  • Nils Rundquist (UCSD)
  • Matthias Schoeck (TMT)
  • Luc Simard (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Warren Skidmore (TMT)
  • Smitha Subramanian (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
  • Annapurni Subramanium (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
  • Arun Surya (UCSD)
  • Ryuji Suzuki (NAOJ)
  • Jonathan Tan (Univ of Florida)
  • Hiroshi Terada (NAOJ)
  • Tsuyoshi Terai (NAOJ)
  • Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
  • Chao-Wei Tsai (NAOC-Beijing)
  • Paolo Turri (Berkeley)
  • Takahiro Uchiyama (JAXA)
  • Andrey Vayner (Johns Hopkins)
  • Greg Walth (Carnegie)
  • Mike Wong (Berkeley)
  • Shelley Wright (UCSD)

    • IRIS Technical Members and other contributors:

  • Theodore Aliado (UCLA)
  • David Anderson (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Jenny Atwood (NRC-H)
  • John Canfield (UCLA)
  • Ed Chapin (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Eric Chisholm (TMT)
  • Rich Dekany (Caltech)
  • Alex Delacroix (Caltech)
  • Jennifer Dunn (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Yutaka Hayano (NAOJ)
  • Brian Hoff (NRC-Herzberg)
  • Bungo Ikenoue (NAOJ)
  • Chris Johnson (UCLA)
  • Evan Kress (UCLA)
  • Renate Kupke (UCSC)
  • James Larkin (UCLA)
  • Takashi Nakamoto (NAOJ)
  • Reston Nash (Caltech)
  • Yoshiyuki Obuchi (NAOJ)
  • John Rogers (TMT)
  • Nils Rundquist (UCSD)
  • Jamie Ryan (UCLA)
  • Sakae Saitou (NAOJ)
  • Matthias Schoeck (TMT)
  • Roger Smith (Caltech)
  • Jiman Sohn (UCLA)
  • Arun Surya (UCSD)
  • Ryuji Suzuki (NAOJ)
  • Mizuho Uchiyama (NAOJ)
  • Fumihiro Uraguchi (NAOJ)
  • Eric Wang (UCLA)
  • Bob Weber (Caltech)
  • Shelley Wright (UCSD)
  • Ray Zarzaca (Caltech)
  • Kai Zhang (Caltech)
  • Andrea Zonca (UCSC)

    • Institutional and System Leads

  • David Andersen (CSRO Systems Engineer, NRC-H)
  • Eric Chisholm (IRIS Project Manager, TMT)
  • Jennifer Dunn (CSRO Lead, NRC-H)
  • Brent Ellerbroek (TMT Department Head, Instrumentation, TMT)
  • Yutaka Hayano (Imager Project Manager, NAOJ Lead)
  • James Larkin (Principal Investigator, UCLA)
  • Andrew Phillips (ADC Lead, UCSC Lead)
  • Luc Simard (TMT Head of Science Instruments)
  • Ryuji Suzuki (Imager Lead Designer, NAOJ)
  • Bob Weber (Lead Mechanical Engineer, Caltech)
  • Jason Weiss (Lead Software Engineer, UCLA)
  • James Wincentsen (Lead Systems Engineer, Caltech)
  • Shelley Wright (Project Scientist, UCSD)
  • Kai Zhang (Slicer Lead Optical Designer, NIAOT Lead)

    Team list last updated: July 2020