Dr. Stéphane Basa has been appointed with immediate effect as the new coordinator of the OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP).
Dr. Basa is currently Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM/AMU/CNRS/CNES) and CoPI of the SVOM space mission. This change of coordinator follows the appointment of the former coordinator Jean-Gabriel Cuby as Executive Director of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).
The ORP is one of the European Commission’s transnational access ‘pilot’ programs under EC H2020, launched in March 2021.
Read the ORP press release here.