Meeting ID: 852 4809 3758
Passcode: 184483
Speaker Bio: Juande Santander-Vela
Systems Development Engineer at the ALMA Observatory (Joint ALMA Observatory, JAO). Since June 2022, he has been managing systems engineering activities related to the ALMA 2030 roadmap in general and the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU) in
particular.
An Electronics Engineer by training, specializing in digital signal processing, he has academic and industry experience in software development management and systems engineering. He completed his PhD on how to bring radio-astronomy data and tools to
the Virtual Observatory (VO) at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC). His first postdoctoral position was at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), where, as an Applied Scientist, he was responsible for the quality
of metadata and the VO interfaces of the ESO archive. Later, he was assigned to the initial delivery of the ALMA archive query tool, launched in October 2011.
He returned to IAA-CSIC as the project manager of VIA-SKA and as a collaborator in the development of Astro Taverna. In March 2014, he joined the SKA Organization, initially serving as Systems Engineer for the Telescope Manager (control and observation
management system) and the Science Data Processor (data reduction and early processing) of the SKA telescopes. He later oversaw all software systems.
He took a career break to work for the Chilean government as a project scientist/engineer for the Data Observatory. He then returned to the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) as Head of Software Product Management, responsible for the functionalities
that development teams needed to implement.