Our Organization

IPAC staff serves in various scientific, technical, and administrative positions. IPAC is part of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Caltech, and the Space and Earth Sciences Program Directorate at JPL. Key IPAC personnel are listed below. Job listings for open positions are available at the Caltech HR website.

IPAC Executive Director: George Helou
IPAC Deputy Director: Roc Cutri
IPAC Manager: David Imel

Spitzer Science Center
SSC Director: B. Thomas Soifer
SSC Deputy Director: George Helou
SSC Assistant Director for Public Affairs: Gordon Squires
SSC Assistant Director for Community Affairs: Lisa Storrie-Lombardi
SSC Manager: Lisa Storrie-Lombardi
SSC Deputy Manager: Lee Bennett

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
NExScI Executive Director: Charles (Chas) Beichman
NExScI Director: Shrinivas Kulkarni
NExScI Deputy Director: Rachel Akeson
NExScI Project Manager: David Imel
NExScI Project Scientist: Rachel Akeson

NASA Herschel Science Center
NHSC Director: George Helou
NHSC Project Scientist: Phil Appleton
NHSC Assistant Director for Public Affairs: Gordon K. Squires

IPAC Science Staff: Schuyler Van Dyk (Head)

IPAC Communications and Education Group (ICE): Gordon K. Squires (Manager / Task Lead)

GALEX: Tim Conrow (Task Lead) / Barry F. Madore (Co-Investigator)
Ground Telescopes: LIsa Storrie-Lombardi (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
Infrared Science Archive (IRSA): Harry Teplitz (Science Lead) / Steve Groom (Task Lead)
Keck Observatory Archive (KOA): Bruce Berriman (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
LCOGT Archive: David Ciardi (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
LSST Science User Interface: Schuyler Van Dyk (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
NASA Exoplanet Archive: Rachel Akeson (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
NASA Extragalactic Database (NED): Joseph Mazzarella (Project Scientist / Task Lead) / George Helou (Principal Investigator)
PTF Archive: Jason Surace (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
Planck: Ranga Chary (Project Scientist / Task Lead)
Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO): Bruce Berriman (Project Scientist/Task Lead)
WISE: Roc Cutri (Science and Task Lead)
WFIRST Science Data Center: Roc Cutri, George Helou, David Imel

IPAC Support Group
Admin Team: Mary Ellen Barba (Supervisor)
Facilites Team: Jack Lampley, Rosanne Scholey
Finances Team: Eloise Kennedy (Supervisor)
Operations Support Team: Wendy Burt (Task Lead)
System Engineering Team: Lee Bennett (Task Lead)