Andrew Gotz, Software Architect, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.
Brief summary of expertise and significant research achievements: Andrew Gotz received an MSc in Astronomy from Rhodes University South
Africa in 1984, then worked for 3 years at the Max Planck Institute for
Radio Astronomy as astronomer and software in the domain of Very Long
Baseline Astronomy. In 1988 he joined the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. At the ESRF he led the team
which developed the distributed object oriented control system call
TACO, which is used to control the accelerator and beam line experiments
at the ESRF and the beam lines at the new research reactor FRM2 in Munich.
Andrew Gotz is one of the chief architects of the new CORBA based
control system called TANGO, currently being used in 3 major European
synchrotrons; ESRF, Soleil, and Elettra. He is currently on sabbatical
at ANSTO as part of the RRR neutron beam line project. His main interest
is in distributed control and data acquisition systems, and he is a member
of the international advisory committee for the ICALEPCS series of
conferences on accelerator and experiment control systems.
