Our Team

Meet the people behind GECKOS

Steering Committee

The role of the steering committee is to provides support, guidance and oversight of survey.


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Jesse van de Sande

Lead & Data Reduction Coordinator

Responsibilities: chair steering committee, maintain survey quality & integrity, develop reduction pipeline, simulations liaison (AURIGA, EAGLE, FIRE, and NIHAO), webmaster, ESO liaison, Data Central liaison.

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Amelia Fraser-McKelvie

Deputy Lead & Survey Coordinator

Responsibilities: facilitate science and engage the GECKOS team, chair science meetings, build team cohesion, newsletter with science and team highlights, lead outreach effort, together with science coordinator identify big tasks and find team members to do them.

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Marie Martig

Science Coordinator

Responsibilities: oversee all science occurring within GECKOS, attend majority of workgroup meetings, maintain clear understanding of all science projects, resolve science conflict and report issues to deputy-lead & steering, collect project proposals, manage team membership, suggesting speakers for science telecons, TIMER liaison.

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Michael Hayden

MW Modelling Coordinator

Responsibilities: spearhead development of extragalactic Milky Way models, lead collaboration on improving stellar population synthesis models, maintain wiki, GALAH & APOGEE liaison.

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Deanne Fisher

Multi-Wavelength Coordinator

Responsibilities: coordinate follow-up proposals (JWST, low-SB-imaging, etc.), lead the effort of applying for ALMA, IRAM, and HI, ASKAP & MEERKAT liaison.

Core-Team

Our current core-team members are:

  • Jesse van de Sande
  • Amelia Fraser-McKelvie
  • Marie Martig
  • Michael Hayden
  • Deanne Fisher
  • Eric Emsellem
  • Adam Watts

General Members

Our general members are:

  • Sadaf Aliakbar Zadeh
  • Andrew Battisti
  • Joss Bland-Hawthorn
  • Alberto Bolatto
  • Toby Brown
  • Tobias Buck
  • Sven Buder
  • Martin Bureau
  • Runsheng Cai
  • Barbara Catinella
  • Boquan Chen
  • Jo Ciuca
  • Francoise Combes
  • Luca Cortese
  • Scott Croom
  • Payel Das
  • Luiz Albérico da Silva Lima
  • Timothy Davis
  • Camila de Sá Freitas
  • Rory Elliott
  • Jesus Falcon-Barroso
  • Caroline Foster
  • Francesca Fragkoudi
  • Filippo Fraternali
  • Ken Freeman
  • Dimitri Gadotti
  • Ortwin Gerhard
  • Kate Harborne
  • Elizabeth J Iles
  • Prashin Jethwa
  • Kathryn Kreckel
  • Claudia Lagos
  • Ryan Leaman
  • Paula Denise López
  • Richard McDermid
  • Anilkumar Mailvaganam
  • Antonino Marasco
  • Sarah Martell
  • Cristina Martinez-Lombilla
  • Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo
  • Paloma Morilla Martínez
  • Trevor Mendel
  • Ivan Minchev
  • Francesca Pinna
  • Adriano Poci
  • Jahang Prathap P K
  • Martin Roth
  • Tomas Rutherford
  • Anna Lena Schaible
  • Eva Schinnerer
  • Sanjib Sharma
  • Azlizan Adhyaqsa Soemitro
  • Yuan-Sen Ting
  • Lucas Valenzuela
  • Glenn van de Ven
  • Fabian Walter
  • Zixian (Purmortal) Wang
  • Emily Wisnioski
  • Andrew Wetzel
  • Meng Yang
  • Tayyaba Zafar
  • Sara Zahoor
  • Ling Zhu

External Board of Advisors

  • Prof Matthew Colless (Australian National University)
  • Prof Kim-Vy Tran (Center for Astrophysics)
  • Prof Cathryn Trott (Curtin University)

Joining the GECKOS Team

GECKOS is an open collaboration and we encourage anyone that is interested in joining our team to contact our Science Coordinator . You can also submit an expression of interest through the following membership application form .