Valentin Martinez Pillet — Director of Engineering

Valentin Martinez Pillet is a Research Professor at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) and a Tenured Astronomer at the US National Solar Observatory (Boulder, CO). He served as the principal investigator of the Imaging Magnetograph Experiment, which has flown as part of the Sunrise stratospheric balloon-borne telescope and the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager for the ESA Solar Orbiter mission. He was a member of the Science Working Team of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission and was President of Division II of the IAU “The Sun & the Heliosphere” from 2010-2012. From 2013 to mid-2024, Martinez Pillet has been the Director of the US National Solar Observatory, which operates the 4m DKIST telescope on Maui (Hawai’i) and the solar synoptic GONG network distributed across six sites around the globe. On July 1st, 2024, he started a new position as Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain).

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