John Blakeslee
Research and Science Services Director
John Blakeslee joined NOIRLab following three years as the inaugural Chief Scientist of the International Gemini Observatory. Prior to that, he worked as a staff astronomer at Canada’s Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, a faculty member at Washington State University, and a Research Scientist with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys project at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his PhD at MIT using data collected over many nights on Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Caltech and Durham University. Blakeslee’s research focuses on galaxy clusters and cosmology.
