About Us

.Astronomy 2009 is being coordinated by a six-person team, some based in the Netherlands and some in the UK. Here’s who is running this conference and how to get in touch with them. All general .Astronomy queries should be directed to info@dotastronomy.com.

Robert Simpson is a postgraduate student studying star formation, finishing his PhD in Cardiff University in the UK. He runs the astronomy blog Orbiting Frog and works on many online astronomy projects. He created .Astronomy and ran the first conference in Cardiff, 2008. You can find Rob on Twitter @orbitingfrog

Carolina Ödman has been UNAWE (Universe Awareness) Project manager at Leiden Observatory since 2005. Passionate about new media and all web things since 1995 she is also an amateur photographer, blogger and web designer. You can Carolina on Twitter @carolune

Sarah Kendrew works as a Postdoc in astronomy at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. She’s interested in networked technologies for research and science publishing. She blogs about astronomy at http://sarahaskew.net and you can find her on Twitter @sarahkendrew

Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. He leads the work there to build a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical transient events. You can find Alasdair on Twitter @aallan

Stuart Lowe is a Postdoc researcher at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in the UK. He writes an astronomy blog, podcasts (for the Jodcast), tweets and also likes to make networked astronomy apps for fun (such as lookUP). You can find Stuart on Twitter @astronomyblog

Chris Lintott is a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Galaxy Zoo project, the world’s largest astronomical collaboration. He is best known as co-presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night program. You can find Chris on Twitter @chrislintott