Gaia People

Hassan Siddiqui

European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)

Hassan joined DPAC in 2007 and is based at ESAC. His role on Gaia is software development: he is the DU leader for the MIT (which receives the raw telemetry from the MOC) and the POS (which sends uplink data requests to the MOC), and is the GaiaTools Committee Chair. As of February 2014, he will be the lead for the CU1 coordination unit.

After receiving his degree in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in X-ray Astrophysics from Leicester, he spent a short period in industry working on emulation software before joining the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre as a scientific software developer, working on science simulation software and data processing. He then switched to the far-infrared when he joined the Herschel SOC where he took a similar role but with additional involvement in design aspects before finally going optical and joining Gaia.

When Hassan has any spare time, he generally enjoys eating and sleeping.

[Published: 03/02/2014]