HIAC
CSACThe Community Spectro-polarimetric Analysis Center
The CSAC Team
 | Juan Manuel Borrero Juan is an affiliate CSAC team member and guru on Stokes inversion techniques. He received his PhD in Physics/Astrophysics from Gottingen University (Germany). His first job at HAO was as a Post Graduated Scientist I (December 2004 - June 2006) and is principally working for the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) for which he developed the "Very Fast Inversion of the Stokes Vector" VFISV code. |
 | Roberto Casini Roberto's work focuses on spectro-polarimetric diagnostics of electric and magnetic fields in the solar chromosphere and corona; development and maintenance of numerical codes for the forward modeling and inversion of scattering polarization in spectral lines in the presence of electric and magnetic fields; and scattering polarization with PRD in complex atoms. Roberto is the lead scientist of the ProMag instrument. |
 | Alfred de Wijn Alfred is another affiliate CSAC team member and has made invaluable contributions to the effort on the Hinode front. He received his PhD in Astrophysics in 2006 from Utrecht University. He began working at HAO in December 2006 as part of the Hinode/SP team. His main research interest is in observational studies of the solar photosphere, chromosphere, and transition region using various ground-based and space-borne instruments. |
 | Jose Garcia Jose graduated from the University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela, as a systems engineer. He holds two degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder; one in computer science and one in applied mathematics. He initially worked as a software development consultant for different corporations until he decided to pursue a career in research, joining NCAR in 1998. His main interests are informatics, computational mathematics and high performance computing. Jose has led the effort to develop the MERLIN spectro-polarimetric inversion code as part of CSAC. |
 | Bruce Lites Bruce's research areas include interpretation of measurements of the solar magnetic field in terms of structure, dynamics, and energetics of the solar atmosphere. Other research interests include applications of radiative transfer to solar problems and instrumentation for solar observations. Bruce is the leader of CSAC and a Co-I on the Solar Optical Telescope of Hinode. |
 | Scott McIntosh Scott's research spans the middle of the Sun's outer atmosphere mainly involving the complexities of the chromosphere and transition region, trying to understand the coupling of dynamic magnetic structure, and granulation induced wave motions. Scott is a late-comer to CSAC and is involved gathering community codes, input, and dealing with aspects of Hinode SOT/SP "level 2" inversions. |
 | Rob Markel Rob's background as a software engineer for IBM (following receipt of his master's degree in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1997) has allowed him to develop as an expert in the handling and manipulation of relational databases and the runtime Java environment. Rob has developed the Hinode SOT/SP level 1/2 analysis database and the Java Web Client to allow users to log into CSAC and produce their own spectro-polarimetric inversions. |
 | Hector Socas-Navarro Hector's main interest interests lie in the spectro-polarimetric measurements of photospheric and chromospheric spectral lines. Hector has been the driving force behind the development of the SPINOR instrument (the replacement to the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter) at the National Solar Observatory and the advanced LILIA inversion algorithm. |