Director and Project Manager: Professor Habib Khosroshahi
School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
Executive Manager: Fahimeh Ghaderi
Technical Manager: Hooshdad Jenab
Telescope Cheif Mechanical Engineer: Masoud Bidar
Dome Cheif Mechanical Engineer: S. M. Mohajer
Cheif Software Engineer: Reza Ravanmehr
Mirror Support Engineer: Mahdi Saeidifar
Project Organogram
International Advisory Board
Professor Gerry Gilmore (chair)
Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and Scientific Coordinator for Opticon (Optical and Infrared Astronomy Coordination Network)
Prof. Colin Cunningham
British Astronomical Center – Observatory of Edinburgh, Scotland (UKATC), Member of E-ELT instrumentation workgroup
Professor Piro Salinari
Mechanical Design Engineer of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)
Professor Pedro Alvarez
Project Director for the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)
Dr. David Buckley
The scientific director for the SLAT 10-meter telescope project and the main researcher in the Instrument Section
Dr. Martin Cullum
Senior system engineer at European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Prof. Lorenzo Zago
Optics and metrology, former project manager for DAG
In addition, the Iranian National Observatory has benefitted from the consultation and management expertise of Professor Arne Ardeberg (University of Lund, Sweden) and other specialists from around the world.
