Experience Committee: Details that make a difference
With the aim of improving the day-to-day lives of those who work at ALMA, the Experience Committee was formed in 2023, a working group that arose from an agreement between the organisation and both unions during the last collective bargaining negotiations. This committee aims to ensure a good work...
Do you Recommend?: Jonathan Antognini, a team player
"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....
“This wonderful machine changed the world, producing the kind of ‘transformational science’ it was designed for”
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...
Unforgettable celebrations of these first 10 years
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 observatory had a lot of mystique and we were all more than proud to work here”
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,...
“I have seen ALMA grow from a project to an observatory”
That day, all expectations were set at the port of Antofagasta. The first ALMA antenna had finally arrived in our hands and it was necessary to accompany its transfer to the Vertex hangar at OSF. The television and print media of that October 2007 were in...
A new face at ALMA: meet Catalina Margulis
It was like any other summer day at the beach. The family was having lunch in their apartment, in a dining room overlooking the terrace. They began to talk about the universe, and as the minutes passed, about the existence of aliens and UFOs that could...