Óscar was short of breath. His six years' experience working in thermoelectric power plants had helped him land a position with us, but nothing anticipated him for the Chajnantor's altitude. "I had a hard time assimilating the environmental conditions to which we are subjected," says Óscar Alarcón, 10 years after arriving as an Operator of the Power Generation and...
"I think, without fear of contradiction, it was the most exciting day since I've been working at ALMA," says David Rebolledo, Operations Astronomer, recalling that April 10, 2019 when our observatory was a key player in obtaining the first images of a black hole in conjunction with seven other radio telescopes around the world.The press around the planet portrayed...
"It is always nice to receive a formal recognition, but it is even more emotional to see the happiness of several of my colleagues when they noticed that I had been awarded", says Jonathan Antognini, last winner of our Fundamental Statements award, in the Collaboration category. After 8 years at ALMA as Integration & Testing Lead, Jonathan was honored...
It was no ordinary stone. That monolith in Chajnantor was engraved with some kind of moons that looked like an observatory, and it said "ALMA - AOS Technical Building". It was September 2006, and Giorgio Siringo -who had arrived two years earlier to put "eyes" on the APEX radio telescope from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in...
During March we celebrated our first decade of ALMA operations. Thus, the OSF and AOS became the first venues for celebrations recognizing our immense work over the last 10 years to enable astronomical research worldwide. Click on the pictures to relive the celebrations!We will keep updating the gallery with more...
For Liza, there was no better destination. Her passion for processing data and obtaining wonderful images of objects in the Universe made our observatory the ideal place to work. It was February 2012, and Liza Videla, our Science Archive Content Manager had just arrived at ALMA, albeit under very different conditions than she is now."All my work was done...