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New HEASARC Director Announced
Dr. Alan Smale has been appointed the new Director of the HEASARC and will
take up the position on August 4, 2008. Alan currently serves as Program
Executive for Mission Operations and Data Analysis (MO&DA) in the Astrophysics
Division at NASA Headquarters, where he is responsible for managing the MO&DA
for the Chandra, GALEX, Gravity Probe-B, INTEGRAL, RXTE, Spitzer, Suzaku,
Swift, WMAP, and XMM-Newton missions. He has also served as Program Scientist
for RXTE, and Program Executive for the astrophysics data archives, including
HEASARC, MAST, and IRSA.
Prior to his 5 years at NASA HQ, Alan worked as a Senior Research Scientist
for USRA at Goddard, managing the RXTE Guest Observer Facility
from 1994-2003, as well as the Swift Science Center from 1998-2003. He was
also a Co-Investigator on the Swift mission. At the RXTE GOF he supported
the community through the design and testing of data analysis software,
data archiving, and the organization of Peer Reviews. Alan received his
D.Phil in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford in 1986 and was a
postdoctoral research associate at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory,
University College London.
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