Fred Lo has been tapped for the top job at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, according to a 20 June announcement by Associated Universities Inc, which runs NRAO for NSF. He will replace Paul Vanden Bout, who was director for more than 17 years and left on 1 June to oversee, on an interim basis, construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. Lo comes on board on 1 September; until then, W. Miller Goss is serving as acting director of NRAO.
Lo moves to NRAO from Taipei, Taiwan, where, since 1997, he has been director of the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA). Among the projects he’s been involved with while there are the Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA), a collaboration on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, with the Smithsonian Institution, and the Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy, an interferometric array slated to be completed in 2004 that will...
