Many have ended their working years with us, leaving an indelible mark in ALMA. Now it is the turn of Carlos Rivera, our welding mechanic, who after 14 years is saying goodbye by making use of the Exceptional Union Quota Retirement Agreement for workers over 60 years of age. This is the first case of retirement in our observatory...
Data is the foundation of our work at ALMA. It's what we look for in the sky and what we do best with scientists from around the world. That information is key to generating images that we can share with the public. That's why in June we took our collaborators almost 8,000 kilometers away, to perfect their skills at...
Our observatory is located in Chile, but people from all over the world make up its team. That's why we want to commemorate the national holidays of the 17 nationalities that make up our multiculturalism. And we started in July with Canada Day by talking to Iván López, our Health, Safety, Security and Environment Manager, who has been with...
Our observatory has all kinds of professionals that make it a unique place in the world. But above all we have engineers... and women engineers! On the occasion of Women in Engineering Day, celebrated last June 23, we want to give special recognition to those women who every day demonstrate that there is no reason to generate gender bias....
For the past couple of years, ALMA's Education and Public Outreach (EPO) team, together with Vectorial Production Company (author of "The Rebirth of a Giant"), has been working on the series "En Busca de Nuestros Orígenes" (In Search of Our Origins), a documentary-style production that tells the story of young Atacameño people who want to learn about the mysteries...
When you have children everything is different, even if our realities are different. "I never had a role as a father growing up, but I always knew that being a father I was going to give my best. Being a father is a gift from God and is the energy to keep growing no matter what happens in life....