“Curiosity is the engine that drives progress”
Cristian Navarro, our Radio Technician I, was recognized with the prestigious Curiosity Award 2024 for his dedication to ALMA's essential purpose: curiosity. With almost 14 years at the observatory, Cristian plays a key role in maintaining the technological infrastructure that supports ALMA's scientific operations.A career marked by passion Since...
The race against time for Cycle 10
On Saturday, September 30th, a new cycle of observations began. And if every year it is a great challenge to meet the stipulated deadlines, the cyber-attack we suffered at the end of October 2022 made the start of Cycle 10 a real race against the clock."All...
Celebrating with bonfires, fireworks, parades and pupusas…
"It serves as a beautiful testament to the country's linguistic diversity and unity." describes Stefan Gairing, our Planner & Coordinator of Array Operations & Maintenance, recalling the speeches made in the four national languages of his native Switzerland, with which, every August 1st, they celebrate the...
We celebrate this National Holidays by putting everything on the grill!
With music, food and typical games we celebrated a new "18" at ALMA. It all started on Friday, September 15 at the SCO, where we shared a delicious "asado" and empanadas with our executives.A moment of relaxation in which we also saw the childhood photos sent...
“Breaking the Ice”: Bringing the Middle-Management Team Together
At ALMA we have several layers of organization, and one of them is the Middle-Management Team (MMT). Its members do not belong to the Core Management Team (CMT), but are managers, assistant managers, or other grade 16+. Before the pandemic, its members met from time to...
Saying farewell to the ALMA Software Architect
A few days ago, we received the sad news of the passing of Joseph Schwarz, our former colleague at ESO. Our paths with Joe crossed in 2000, when he moved to the ALMA project at ESO. There he played an essential role in leading the team...
Jumping to another “constellation”: Our former collaborators
There are many who continue their careers elsewhere after working at ALMA, but not before recognizing the importance of our observatory in their professional development.This is the case of Alejandro Barrientos, who worked with us for 12 years as Technical Dataflow Engineer, and today works as...