John C Webber

John C. Webber received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1964 and 1969, respectively. From 1970 to 1980, he was an Assistant Professor in the Astronomy and Electrical Engineering Departments, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he conducted research in radio astronomy and developed instrumentation for a 120-ft-diameter radio telescope. From 1980 to 1988, he was Assistant Director of Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Westford, where he developed instrumentation for VLBI. From 1988 to 1996, he was Vice President of Interferometrics Inc., Vienna, VA, where he produced radio astronomy data acquisition equipment. He also patented and put into practice commercial applications of radio interferometry, including a method of locating transmitters, which interfere with geosynchronous satellite communications, and a method of locating cellular telephones. Since 1996, he has been Assistant Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Charlottesville, VA, and Director of the NRAO Central Development Laboratory. His research interests are in all areas of radio astronomy instrumentation, with emphasis on the EVLA, ALMA, and GBT. Dr. Webber is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the International Astronomical Union, and URSI Commission J.