North America (Appointed) Areas of Expertise Steve Allen (2003) UCO/Lick Obs Optical, Mosaicing, WCS Daniel Durand (2003) CADC, Canada Optical, CFHT, HST Eric Greisen (1988) NRAO FITS History, AIPS, Radio, WCS *Bob Hanisch (1988) STScI Virtual observatory, WGAS Chairman *Bill Pence (1993) HEASARC, GSFC (Former-Chair, 2003-2012) CFITSIO, X-ray *Arnold Rots (2002) SAO (Former Chair of N. American FITS committee) Chandra, X-ray, Timing Dick Shaw (2003) NOAO UV/Optical, Spectroscopy, Imaging, LSST Elizabeth Stobie (2003) NOAO Optical, IR, data management William Thompson (2003) GSFC Solar, SOHO, STEREO Doug Tody (1988) NRAO Virtual observatory, WCS, IRAF Europe *Lucio Chiappetti (2003) IASF Milano, It. (Chairman) X-ray, XMM, BeppoSAX, databases Malcolm Currie (2009) RAL, U.K. Optical/IR imaging & spectroscopy *Adam Dobrzycki (2010) ESO, Germany (Former Chair of European FITS committee) QSOs, computational astronomy Thierry Forveille (2003) Grenoble Optical/IR, Radio Carlos Gabriel (2005) ESA/ESAC, Spain X-ray, XMM Science Operations Preben Grosbol (1988) ESO, Germany (Former-chair, 1988-1994; Former-Chair of the European FITS committee) FITS History, VLT Walter Jaffe (2003) Leiden, NL Radio, IR interferometry Francois Ochsenbein (1988) CDS, France Vizier, SIMBAD, VOTable Zhelenkova, Olga (2009) Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Russia Japan: *Osamu Kanamitsu (1995) Fukuoka Univ of Edu. (Former Chair of the Japanese FITS committee) Optical Australia *Mark Calabretta (2003) ATNF/CSIRO (Former Chair of the Australia/New Zealand FITS committee) Radio, WCS Andreas Wicenec (2003) ICRAR, Perth ALMA, radio, AVO (* = member of the Executive Committee) ------------------------------------ Previous Members Tenure Perry Greenfield (2009-2015) Bill Cotton, NRAO (1988-2003) John Glaspey, NOAO (1988-2003) Don Jennings, NOST (2000-2000) Oleg Malkov, Moscow (2003-2009) Shiro Nishimura, Japan (1988-1995) Clive Page, UK (2003-2009) Bruce Peterson, MSO (1988-2003) Anatoly Piskunov, RU (1988-2000) Ernst Raimond, NL (1988-2003) Former-vice-chair: 1994-2003 Barry Schlesinger, NOST (1988-1999) Peter Teuben, U. MD (1995-2002) Former-Chair of N. American FITS Committee Pat Wallace, UK (1988-2005) Wayne Warren, GSFC (1988-2003) Don Wells, NRAO (1988-2009) Former-chair, 1994-2003; Former-vicechair, 1988-1994