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IVS2006 Directing Board Elections

Nominees for At Large Positions

This page provides information about the nominees for At Large positions on the IVS Directing Board. The nominees are listed alphabetically by their family names. The At Large members will be elected by the IVS Directing Board.

Andrey Finkelstein
Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Andrey Finkelstein was born on the 7th of August 1942 in the city of Tavda in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Leningrad University in 1966 as a specialist in Theoretical Physics. In 1990 he was given the academic status of Doctor of Sciences and in 1999 the rank of professor. In 1999 he received the honored worker of science title from the Russian Federation and since 2003 he is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2004 he was awarded with a Prize of the Russian Government for the development and creation of the new generation radio telescope for space research. Andrey Finkelstein is the director-organizer and the director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS since 1988. In 2001 he got the status of professor at the Department of Radio Physics of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. He is the head of the Radio Astronomy Department of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University since 2003. Andrey Finkelstein is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and a member of the Committee On Space Research (COSPAR). He is an expert in the field of theoretical physics, relativistic celestial mechanics, radio astronomy, radio astrometry, radio interferometry, and radio astronomy engineering. He is the author and co-author of more than 180 publications including 4 monographs.

Rüdiger Haas
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Rüdiger obtained the Ph.D. from the Geodetic Institute of the University of Bonn (Germany) in February 1997. Starting in 1997 he was a "young researcher" at the Onsala Space Observatory participating in the European Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Programme. In November and December 1998 he was a guest scientist at the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL; now NICT) in Kogane/Tokyo (Japan). From June 2000 to May 2004 he held a position as Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory and in June 2004 he was promoted a permanent position as Associate Professor. In February 2004 he became secretary of the European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry (EVGA) and since July 2004 he has the responsibility for the geodesy VLBI activities at the Onsala Network Station. Since Onsala Space Observatory is also a member of the European and worldwide VLBI networks for radio astronomy, Rüdiger has a good overall awareness of VLBI activities.

Ryuichi Ichikawa
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Ichikawa Ryuichi is a research scientist of the NICT (National institute of Information and Communications Technology; the former CRL), Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Hokkaido University in March 1994. From 1995 until now, he belongs to the Kashima Space Research Center of the NICT, Kashima, Japan. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of IAG special study group 1.159 (Use of GPS Positioning for Atmospheric Monitoring). In 1990, he started researching crustal deformation using GPS and he investigated atmospheric delay estimation using numerical weather models. From 1995 until 2001, he was engaged in the geodetic VLBI data analysis of the KSP network. After 2002 his research fields have also included spacecraft tracking using DVLBI technique. At present he has started the development of new VLBI system with very small dish. By his activities he has contributed to NICT’s IVS Technology Development Center.

Franco Mantovani
Institute of Radioastronomy, Italy
Franco Mantovani is a senior scientist with and currently the director of the Institute of Radioastronomy INAF, Bologna, Italy. He is the chairman of the European VLBI Network (EVN) and vice chairman of the SKADS project. He is currently an At Large member of the IVS Directing Board and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European VLBI Consortium, a Board member of the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, and a Steering Committee member of the International Square Kilometre Array. During his career, he was a Research Fellow (1981) and a Visiting Professor (1983) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy (1995–1998). His main fields are active galactic nuclei, VLBI astrometry, and evolution of radio sources. His current research interests are in compact steep spectrum sources, radio jet-interstellar medium interaction, and milli-arcsecond scale polarimetry. Recently he became involved with the Express Production Real-Time e-VLBI Service (EXPReS) project.

Oleg Titov
Geoscience Australia, Australia
Oleg Titov graduated from Saint-Petersburg University (Astronomical Department), Russia, in 1991. From 1991 to 1997 he was with the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Acadamy of Sciences and obtained his Ph.D. from Saint-Petersburg University in 1996. From 1997 to 2001 Oleg was a research scientist at Saint-Petersburg University. In 2001 he became a project officer (now research scientist) with Geoscience Australia—a position he still holds. His research fields include the refinement of the VLBI data analysis for operational EOP determination and the improvement of the ITRF and ICRF reference frames. He also investigates the positional stability of individual radio sources using astrophysical information. Oleg is chairman of the OCCAM Data Analysis Software user and developer group, now for over a decade. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and, within IAU, a member of the Commission 19 "Rotation of the Earth". He helped establishing the IVS Analysis Center at Geoscience Australia in 2001, and, four years later, initiated a project for new geodetic Australian VLBI network. This project was recently approved for funding.

Xiuzhong Zhang
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China
Xiuzhong Zhang was born in Shanghai, China, on August 21, 1947. He is the Head of the VLBI Department of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) as well as the Head of the VLBI Laboratory of SHAO. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and of the Chinese Astronomical Society. From 1970 to 1991, Prof. Chang did research in Astronomical Technology at the Shannxi Astronomical Observatory. From June 1983 to June 1986 and from November 1989 to December 1990, he visited the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, to develop a board computer for x-ray satellite ROSAT. From 1991 to now, he is doing research in the field of Radio Astronomical Technology at SHAO. As head of the VLBI Laboratory of SHAO he develops VLBI technologies to support the Chinese VLBI stations and the Chinese VLBI data processing center.