John Maclean

John Maclean brings more than 15 years of experience at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory) where he was most recently Associate Division Director for the Engineering Support Division. His responsibilities there included IT systems, business systems, and the accelerator control system of the light source, providing beam time to more than 5500 users a year. Maclean previously spent two years with Gemini Observatory in Hilo as the Primary Mirror Control System engineer and before that was at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. For NOIRLab, he is responsible for the overall management and administration of Center Operations Services, including: safety, health, and environment; non-scientific (“outside the telescope enclosure”) facilities operations; and IT operations. Maclean will start in this position in June, based in Tucson for several months before relocating to La Serena for two years, after which he will return to Tucson.