The User Advisory Group consists of delegates who represent key sections of our user community. The following communities are currently represented: - Astronomy - Heliophysics - Planetary Sciences
as well as connections with the following communities - Photon and Neutron Science - Space Weather
Anne Raugh is a data archivist with the Small Bodies Node of the Planetary Data System. She is full-time programmer in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Benoit Seignovert is a data scientist at the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers Nantes Atlantique (FR). He is currently in charge to support and promote the french open-science initiative to open the research data and source codes from the observatory and its partners. Previously, he worked at the Laboratory of Planetary and Geosciences in Nantes (FR) where he developed an open-source coverage analysis tool for the European Space Agency (ESA) to improve the observation planning of the Juice mission. He also worked as a postdoc in the Planetary and Exoplanetary Atmospheres group at NASA/JPL. He analyzed the Titan’s surface and atmosphere with the remote sensing instruments onboard Cassini (VIMS and ISS) and he studied new lossy data compression for outer-planetary missions. In 2018, he developed the Cassini-VIMS data portal containing all Saturn’s icy moons calibrated data and the PyVIMS python module. He completed his PhD in Astrophysics in 2017 at the University of Reims (FR) where he developed radiative transfer models to analyze the detached haze layers observed by Cassini-ISS instrument at high altitude in Titan’s upper atmosphere.
Ryan McGranaghan is a Data Scientist and Research Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he works with the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy (MLIA) group to apply data science techniques robustly and responsibly to the Earth and Space Sciences, to cultivate cross-NASA Center collaborations, and to explore more cohesive and plural scientific communities. He is also a core team member for the NASA Transformation to Open Science (TOPS) initiative, improving the accessibility, inclusivity, and reproducibility of science. His career as in his life is about creating and cultivating transdisciplinary and trans-community connections for the sake of scientific discovery and flourishing.
Sébastien Derriere works as Astronome Adjoint for the CDS. He has a long experience in the management of astronomical catalogues, started with dedicated query tools for the publication of the 2MASS and DENIS near‐infrared catalogues in VizieR. He co‐supervised a PhD dedicated to the multi wavelength cross‐identification and statistical classification of XMM sources with other catalogues. His current work is focussed on Virtual Observatories, and he contributed in the recently released CDS catalogue cross‐match service. He is Vice-Chair of the IVOA Vocabulary Group.
Jennifer Bartlett is the project scientist for astrophysics at the Astrophysics Data System (ADS), which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. She is ensuring that this digital library continues to meet the needs of research astronomers as it expands to become the Science Explorer (SciX) serving planetary science, heliophysics, Earth science, and NASA-funded research in the biological and physical sciences. She is vice chair of the American Astronomical Society’s Working Group on the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (AAS WG UAT). Her research is in astrometry and history of astronomy.
Véronique Delouille is a senior researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, in the department of Solar Physics and Space Weather. Her research interests lie in the application of statistical and machine learning techniques for research and operational purposes in the field of solar physics, space weather forecast, and validation. She is also involved in promoting the usage of international standards for the distribution of solar physics datasets.
Rolf Krahl is responsible for scientific data management at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB). HZB operates large scientific facilities, such as the BESSY II synchrotron light source and users from all over the world come to Berlin to use these facilities for their research. Rolf’s task is to setup and manage a data repository for the preservation and long term archival of the scientific data collected at HZB’s instruments. He has a background in mathematics. Before joining HZB, he has been developing software for scientific computing, mainly in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Edmund Henley has been a space weather researcher in the Stratosphere and Large-Scale Dynamics team since he joined the Met Office in 2011. Prior to that, Edmund completed a PhD in space physics in the Space and Atmospheric Physics group at Imperial College London. His PhD used data from the Cluster spacecraft to examine Earth’s bow shock, a low-energy analogue for collisionless shocks commonly encountered elsewhere in the universe.