MIRI System Leads

Principal Investigator - Gillian Wright

• Overall leadership of the consortium with formal responsibility to ESA for the science performance and for delviery of the instrument.

Instrument Scientist - Alistair Glasse

• On-going monitoring and checking of all aspects of instrument design and manufacturing specs for impacts to science instrument performance.
• Overview of and participation in the instrument test and calibration activities.
• Liaison with NASA/JPL for detector developement, interfaces and performance.

Optical Systems Lead - Martyn Wells

• Overall optical design of the instrument coordinating with sub-system optical designers, alignment budgets, system performance budgets and modelling.

Packaging - Peter Hastings

• Overall opto-mechanical layout of the instrument.