THE ING NEWSLETTER No. 2, March 2000
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    Personnel Movements
     

    Don Pollacco has left ING after several years of service. Don has been a key person in the development of fibre-based instruments at ING. In particular his efforts on improving the AUTOFIB and WYFFOS systems has been highly appreciated. He is leaving behind an important gap which will be difficult to fill. We thank him for his efforts and wish him well in his new job at Queen's University Belfast.

    Also Daniel Folha left at the end of his tour on La Palma to return to the University of Porto. Many thanks to Daniel for his excellent support, and welcome to Paolo Garcia who is taking up the vacant position left by Daniel.

    Begoña García and Thomas Augusteijn have taken up vacant positions as Support Astronomers. Both are highly experienced in observational astronomy and we are very pleased that they decided to join ING. Prior to coming to La Palma Begoña worked at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, whilst Thomas was working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

    Romano Corradi and Johan Knapen also joined the Astronomy Group as research fellows. Their key task will be to strengthen the research environment at ING. Romano was working at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias before taking up his position at ING, and Johan is on leave of absence from the University of Hertfordshire.

    Kenny Britton and Ermano Villani filled temporary posts in the Site Services and Mechanical Engineering groups, respectively. Both have left ING at the end of their term after helping the groups through a very busy period. We wish both of them well in their future career.

    Vicente Reyes temporarily filled the post of Telescope Operator during absence of Neil O'Mahony. Vicente returned to his previous business, while we welcome Neil back on La Palma.
     
     

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