Richard Hills and Alison Peck appointed 
Joint ALMA Office Project Scientist and Deputy Project Scientist

We are happy to announce the appointments of the remaining Key Staff of the 
Joint ALMA Office (JAO): Prof. Richard Hills as the ALMA Project Scientist, 
and Dr. Alison Peck as the Deputy Project Scientist. Richard Hills is 
Professor of Radio Astronomy, and a member of the Astrophysics Group, 
in the Physics Department of Cambridge University, UK. His work is well 
known to all who are in the field of millimeter and sub-millimeter-wave 
astronomy. Among the many topics that he has worked on with great 
distinction, Prof. Hills is especially well known as an expert in radio 
astronomical instrumentation, telescopes and interferometry.

Dr. Alison Peck is a staff member of the Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA) at 
the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA. Dr. 
Peck is responsible for all science and observer scheduling at the SMA 
telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea, HI. As such, her responsibilities 
range from designing and implementing a system of dynamic scheduling, 
optimizing data taking and reduction procedures to outreach activities. 
We look forward to their leadership in, among other matters, the science 
commissioning and science verification of ALMA.

Fred K. Y. Lo (NRAO)
Catherine Cesarsky (ESO)
Shoken Miyama (NAOJ)
Massimo Tarenghi (JAO)