Dr Evanthia Hatziminaoglou is a senior astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany, an expert in operations of large astronomical structures, director of the ALMA Regional Centre (ARC; 2022 - 2024), former deputy head of the ARC (2019 - 2022), and former coordinator of the European ARC user support network (2014-2020).
Graduated in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1996, she then moved to France, where she received a Master of Advanced Studies (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies) in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Science of the Universe in 1997, and the PhD in Astrophysics in 2000 from the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse.
From 2001 to 2003, Dr Hatziminaoglou held a postdoctoral position at ESO in Garching, followed by a postdoctoral contract at the IAC in Tenerife, where she worked on the extragalactic programmes of the Spitzer and Herschel space observatories. She returned to ESO in 2006, where she joined the Virtual Observatory Project Office, becoming deputy director in 2008.
Dr Hatziminaoglou works in extragalactic astronomy and her main focus is the study of active galaxies across wavelengths and over cosmic time, their formation and evolution, and their impact on the properties of their host galaxies. He also has extensive experience in the design and execution of large extragalactic surveys. He led the active galaxy science group of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES), the largest time-guaranteed project with Herschel. He has led the Atacama Submillimetre Telescope Operations (AtLAST) work package, a three-year design study funded by Horizon 2020 as part of the Research and Innovation actions programme. She will continue to lead the work on operations, prototype software development, data storage and accessibility, and user support during the second phase of the project, recently approved under Horizon Europe (AtLAST2), which will start in early 2025, with a duration of 3.5 years.
She has ongoing collaborations with several groups at the institute. During her stay, she will conduct the submillimetre quasar study with her proprietary ALMA data and organise an event for ALMA users in Spain (Spanish ALMA days 2025, https://meetings.iac.es/ALMAdays2025/) from 18-20 February 2025 at the IAC, for the first time in Spain. In addition, she will give talks about ALMA and AtLAST, participate in public talks and take part in the IAC-led activity ‘Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía’ (Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy).
