AUI News Release
Pierre Cox Appointed as New ALMA Director
The ALMA Board has announced that Pierre Cox has been appointed as the next Director of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Cox will take up duty on 1 April 2013, for a period of five years, at the end of Thijs de Graauw’s term as ALMA Director. Thijs de Graauw, who has been the ALMA Director since 2008, has taken the observatory past many milestones in his five-year term.
Pierre is currently DIrector of IRAM (Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique). IRAM operates the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) near Grenoble, France, and its 30-meter telescope on Pico Veleta, Spain — both telescopes observing at millimeter-wavelengths. His experience will be invaluable as ALMA, the world's premiere millimeter wave observatory, starts full science operations. Pierre is also well known to NRAO and AUI. In fact, he currently serves on AUI's Visiting Committee for NRAO. We wish him well!
Ethan J. Schreier
