{"id":2348,"date":"2025-07-17T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:35:14","slug":"nombramiento-de-la-dra-jessica-dempsey-como-proxima-directora-general-del-observatorio-ska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/en\/nombramiento-de-la-dra-jessica-dempsey-como-proxima-directora-general-del-observatorio-ska\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Jessica Dempsey appointed as the next Director-General of the SKA Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>17\/07\/2025 \u2013 Jessica Dempsey will be the next Director-General of the SKA Observatory from June 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2349\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jessica_Dempsey_DG.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jessica_Dempsey_DG.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jessica_Dempsey_DG-1280x881.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jessica_Dempsey_DG-980x675.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/ska-spain.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jessica_Dempsey_DG-480x331.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1500px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Jessica Dempsey in front of the SKAO Global Headquarters at Jodrell Bank. Credits: SKAO<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"615\">The SKA Observatory (SKAO) has announced the appointment of Dr Jessica Dempsey as the next Director General. The current director of ASTRON (Netherlands) will assume the role in June 2026 for a five-year term, taking over from Philip Diamond, who has led the intergovernmental organisation since it was established in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"1001\">Dempsey will lead the SKAO during a key phase that includes the end of construction of the SKA-Low (Australia) and SKA-Mid (South Africa) telescopes, the preparation for the start of the scientific verification phase\u2014scheduled for the first half of 2027\u2014and the project\u2019s transition from construction to its initial scientific operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1308\">The appointment was approved by the SKAO Council, composed of representatives of the twelve member countries. The decision highlights Dempsey's strong experience in managing large international scientific infrastructures and his commitment to the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1409\">More information: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skao.int\/en\/news\/654\/jessica-dempsey-next-director-general\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1409\">skao.int<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17\/07\/2025 &#8211; Jessica Dempsey ser\u00e1 la pr\u00f3xima directora general del Observatorio SKA a partir de junio de 2026 El Observatorio SKA (SKAO) ha anunciado el nombramiento de la Dra. Jessica Dempsey como pr\u00f3xima directora general. La actual directora de ASTRON (Pa\u00edses Bajos) asumir\u00e1 el cargo en junio de 2026 por un periodo de cinco a\u00f1os, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-skao"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nombramiento de la Dra. 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