Consortium

The Tarantula Survey is a pan-European collaboration that brings together world experts in multi-object spectroscopy, modelling of stellar atmospheres, and calculation of stellar evolutionary tracks. The principal investigator (PI) is: Chris Evans and the full consortium includes:

  • Edinburgh: Chris Evans, William Taylor, Vincent Hénault-Brunet
  • Amsterdam: Alex de Koter, Hugues Sana
  • Armagh: Jorick Vink, Goetz Graefener, Joachim Bestenlehner
  • Bonn: Norbert Langer, Matteo Cantiello
  • Cambridge: Mark Gieles
  • ESO: Yuri Beletsky, Giovanni Carraro
  • Exeter: Nate Bastian
  • Faulkes(Cardiff)/OU: Vanessa Stroud
  • Granada: Jesus Maiz-Apellaniz
  • IAC: Artemio Herrero, Sergio Simon-Diaz
  • Keele: Jacco van Loon
  • Madrid: Paco Najarro
  • NAO-Rohzen: Nevena Markova
  • OU: Simon Clark
  • QUB: Philip Dufton, Paul Dunstall, Stephen Smartt
  • Sheffield: Paul Crowther, Emile Doran
  • STScI: Danny Lennon, Selma de Mink, Nolan Walborn
  • UCL: Ian Howarth
  • USM: Joachim Puls
  • Utrecht: Ines Brott