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:

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

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 .