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My name’s Dave Williams, and I’m a member of UCL’s Mullard Space Science Lab in Surrey, Southern England.
Most of my time working for UCL has been spent here at MSSL; however, I returned in 2009 from a few years at Japan’s Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science. My job there was as resident scientist and the UK’s chief observer (CO) for the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode solar physics satellite. But I continued to work for UCL, of course, and returned to MSSL in March 2009. I’ve also been the EIS Project Scientist since January 2007.
It’s a fun, if demanding, job. We’ve already seen some extraordinary stuff with EIS, as well as with our sister instruments on Hinode, SOT and XRT. With publicly available data and software, I’d like to encourage you to explore the amazing new view of the Sun that these three instruments have started to give us.
If you have any questions about using EIS in particular, then our EISWiki is the best place, because it’s open and available to everyone!
For further information, feel free to contact me.
