O'Flaherty Karen - Gaia
Gaia contributors
Gaia was proposed in 1993 and since then, many people have been involved in the Gaia mission, whether at ESA, at industry side or at one of the institutes involved in the Gaia data processing. The Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) is a collaboration which consists of around 450 scientists and engineers.
The list of Gaia contributors presented here should not be considered a complete representation of the entire consortium and should not be considered as a list of currenly active people on the Gaia mission. A more complete list of Gaia contributors that were involved in the creation of the Gaia catalogues can be obtained from the author lists of the Gaia Collaboration overview papers (for Gaia Data Release 1 see here, for Gaia Data Release 2 see here, for Gaia Early Data Release 3 see here, for the full Gaia Data Release 3 see here, for Gaia Focused Product Release see here). A history of contributions to the Gaia mission can be found from the acknowledgements given with each data release.
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Karen O'Flaherty European Space Agency |
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Karen O'Flaherty was Information Manager in the Gaia Project Scientist's Support Team at ESTEC. Having completed her PhD in high-energy astrophysics in 1993, Karen moved to ESTEC for a Research Fellowship on the Comptel mission. From 1996 to 2000 she worked for the Hipparcos project (compiling Volume 2 of the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues, supporting the overall compilation of the catalogues, and working on Hipparcos community support projects), and on the early stages of the Gaia project. This was followed by two years in the Science Programme Communication Service as Science Editor with responsibility for the scientific content of the Science Directorate web site, before returning to work on Gaia. Karen's interests lie primarily in the area of science communication and outreach. She is particularly interested in the exploitation of scientific data for pre-university students, and in the challenges of visualising large data sets. She left Gaia in March 2008. [Published: 05/11/2007 | Updated: 14/08/2008] |
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