Luis Sanchez


Solar System Science Operations Division, ESA


After finishing my PhD on Helioseismology while working with the
solar group at Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, I joined ESA
at the beginning of 1993 to work as SOHO Science Data Coordinator
at ESTEC

Two years later I moved to the Goddard Space Flight Center in the
same capacity. There I oversaw the flow of science data starting
from the final telemetry distribution, over to the production of
calibrated science data to be archived for distribution to the
scientific community. In doing that, I also developed the existing
SOHO archive and launched and maintained the SOHO web presence.

At the beginning of 2005, after more than ten years in the USA, I
moved to ESAC to become Solar and Heliospheric Archive Scientist
without abandoning my duties with SOHO, in order to help develop
here long term archives for the solar missions.

Besides science archives, I am interested in solar physics,
specially helioseismology and the solar cycle. Also, I try to keep
abreast of developments in distributed, parallel, and grid
computing and its applications in virtual observatories.