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Craig Foltz
Program Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences
National Science Foundation
Craig Foltz is a Program Director at the Division of Astronomical Sciences of the National Science Foundation. He attended Dartmouth College, earning a bachelor’s degree in Physics in 1974 and continued his studies at The Ohio State University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1979. He joined the staff of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory in 1981. After a brief sojourn as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, he moved to the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory in 1984. At that time, the observatory was the home of the third largest optical telescope in the world. He served as the Director of the observatory from 1996 through spring of 2003 and held a joint appointment at the University of Arizona and the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. During his tenure at the MMT, he directed the conversion of the telescope from a high-tech 4.5-meter optical/infrared telescope to an even higher-tech 6.5-meter.
In March 2003, he joined the staff of the National Science Foundation where he has served as Program Director for several nighttime and solar national observatories. He is currently the Program Manager for Gemini Observatory and the National Solar Observatory and oversees several large future projects including the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Dr. Foltz's research interests include studies of the physics of quasars and active galaxies, the nature of the intergalactic medium and degenerate stars, along with astronomical instrumentation. He is an author of more than 150 scientific publications.
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