.. _team: Team ==== The GOATS project is developed and maintained by a collaborative team of scientists and engineers across NOIRLab. Below is a list of core contributors and collaborators. Core Team --------- - **Monika Soraisam** --- GOATS Lead Scientist (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Miguel Alberto Gómez** --- GOATS Lead Engineer (Jan 2026--present, NOIRLab) - **Dan Avner** --- GPP Client & GPP Resource Lead Engineer (Jan 2026--present, NOIRLab) | GOATS Lead Engineer (July 2023--Dec 2025) - **Bill Vacca** --- Head of Science User Support (Gemini / NOIRLab) Collaborators (Alphabetical) ---------------------------- - **César Briceño** --- SOAR Director (MSO / NOIRLab) - **Nicolás Esquivel** --- Software Engineer (NOIRLab) - **Paul Hirst** --- Observatory Scientist (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Kathleen Labrie** --- Observatory Scientist (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Tom Matheson** --- Astronomer (CSDC / NOIRLab) - **Bryan Miller** --- Astronomer (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Chadd Myers** --- Software Engineer (NOIRLab) - **Robert Nikutta** --- Scientist (CSDC / NOIRLab) - **Arturo Núñez** --- Head of Software Engineering (NOIRLab) - **Chris Simpson** --- Senior Scientific Programmer (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Olesja Smirnova** --- Scientific Programmer (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Andy Stephens** --- Scientist (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **D.J. Teal** --- Software Engineer (NOIRLab) - **Sergio Troncoso** —--- Software Engineer (NOIRLab) - **James Turner** --- Observatory Scientist (Gemini / NOIRLab) - **Sebastián Vicencio** --- Software Engineer (NOIRLab) Others ------ GOATS is built using the TOM Toolkit library. We are extremely grateful to the developers of this library at Las Cumbres Observatory. Information of the TOM Toolkit team can be found `here `_.