Office of The President
Ian Gatley
College of Science
Phone: 585-475-2483
E-mail: ixgpci@rit.edu
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As the dean of the College of Science, Ian Gatley -- an internationally known astronomer and physicist -- leads the college to champion the interplay between technological development and the exercise of pure scientific research
Gatley was interim dean of COS, 2001-02, and director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, 1997-2001. He guides the college as it continues to challenge students with expanding research opportunities and degree programs in the newest sciences.
Before joining RIT, Gatley established an international reputation as an astronomer and project manager with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope at Hilo, Hawaii, from 1979 to 1986, and for the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Ariz., from 1986 to1997.
The author of more than 125 technical publications and presentations, Gatley has served on advisory/review committees for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica and the National Science Foundation.
Gatley, a native of England, earned a bachelor of science with first-class honors in physics from Imperial College, University of London, and a doctorate in physics from California Institute of Technology. As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow at Caltech, Gatley discovered protostars in Orion Molecular Cloud OMC2, the Orion Bright Bar, the Galactic center circum-nuclear ring and observed the Large Magellanic Cloud.