ALMA Observatory
Juan Cortes has extensive experience in astronomy and program management, currently serving as the Program Management Group Manager and ALMA Software Acceptance Manager at ALMA Observatory since January 2009, alongside a role as Science Operations Astronomer. Previously, Juan worked as a Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from January 2009 to October 2020. Juan's academic background includes a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Universidad de Chile and a Master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Yale University. Additionally, Juan held post-doctoral and support roles related to the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment between 2005 and 2008.
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ALMA Observatory
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an international partnership of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan, together with NRC (Canada), NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA -the largest astronomical project in existence- is a single telescope of revolutionary design, composed of 66 high precision antennas located on the Chajnantor plateau, 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile.