The MeerLICHT management team
Principal investigators | Patrick Woudt (UCT), Paul Groot (RU), Rob Fender (Oxford) |
Project manager (NL) | Steven Bloemen (RU) |
Project scientist | Elmar Koerding (RU) |
Principal contact partners | Ben Stappers (Manchester), David Buckley (SAAO), Rudy Wijnands (UvA) |
The MeerLICHT project scientist (Elmar Koerding), the MeerLICHT principal investigators (Patrick Woudt, Rob Fender and Paul Groot) and the MeerLICHT/BlackGEM project manager (Steven Bloemen).
The MeerLICHT instrument team (in partnership with BlackGEM)
Optical design | Harrie Rutten (Castor Optical Design) & Rik ter Horst (NOVA) |
Mechanical design | Arno Engels (RU TechnoCenter) & Jan Kragt (NOVA) |
SE | Ronald Roelfsema (NOVA) |
Cryogenics | Gert Raskin (KU Leuven) |
Electronics | Peter Dolron (RU) |
Cabling | Harry Balster (RU) |
Observatory control software | Pjotr Sybiliski (Sybilla), Stan Kozlowski (Cilium) |
Software | Arjan van Elteren (NOVA), Bart Scheers (CWI) |
Dome automation | Piet Fourie (SAAO) |
The MeerLICHT science team
All scientists in the 6 partner institutes are part of the MeerLICHT science consortium and have access to the MeerLICHT data.