Taft Armandroff
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August 1, 2023
Taft Armandroff serves as the director of The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory and a professor in the Department of Astronomy. He serves on the Boards of Directors for the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). He is currently chair of both the GMTO Board and the HET Board.
Armandroff’s scientific interests include stellar populations in our galaxy and nearby galaxies, dwarf spheroidal galaxies, and globular clusters. He is passionate about advancing scientific discoveries via new telescopes, new instrumentation, and other observatory enhancements.
Prior to arriving at The University of Texas at Austin in June 2014, he served for eight years as director of the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Prior to his work at Keck, Taft spent nineteen years at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona, starting as a postdoctoral research fellow and culminating as a tenured astronomer and NOAO associate director.
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