Professor Christophe Dumas will lead the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) from September 2024.
Professor Dumas will also take over as head of the STFC Royal Observatory Edinburgh (ROE) site where the UK ATC is based, alongside The University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Astronomy.
Professor Christophe Dumas, the new Director at UK ATC, said:
I am thrilled to join STFC to lead the UK ATC site in Edinburgh and look forward to working with the internationally renowned team at ROE in developing the next generations of cutting-edge instruments that will explore our close and distant Universe.
It will be a fantastic challenge to follow the path of Gillian Wright’s extraordinary leadership.