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Add advisory board members (#476)
* add advisory board members * add alex bio * add headshots for steph and vanessa * try fixing picture links * fix headshots --------- Co-authored-by: Stuart Mumford <stuart@cadair.com>
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SunPy Advisory Board
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The advisory board is not yet staffed.
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If you are interested in serving on the advisory board please let us know in the `Chat Room <https://app.element.io/#/room/#sunpy:openastronomy.org>`__.
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.. custom-card:: Will Barnes
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:github: wtbarnes
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:aff_name: American University / NASA GSFC
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:aff_link: https://www.american.edu/cas/issti/
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Will Barnes is a research associate at American University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where he works on instrument data pipeline development as well as the SunPy project.
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Previously, he was a postdoc at the Naval Research Laboratory and the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory.
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In May of 2019, Will completed his PhD in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University under the direction of Stephen Bradshaw.
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.. custom-card:: Vanessa Polito
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:github: politovan
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:aff_name: Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
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:aff_link: https:/www.lmsal.com/~polito/
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:img_name: /_static/img/polito_headshot.png
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Vanessa Polito is a Solar Physicist working at the Lockheed Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA.
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She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and then worked as a postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA in Massachusetts, MA.
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Her research topics include ultraviolet observations and modelling of solar flares and energetic events on the Sun.
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She is also deputy-PI of IRIS and co-I of MUSE NASA missions.
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.. custom-card:: Alex Russell
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:github: alex-russell-solar-plasma
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:aff_name: University of St Andrews
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:aff_link: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mathematics-statistics/people/ar51/
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Alexander Russell is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Solar/Magnetospheric Theory at the University of St Andrews.
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His research interests include magnetic reconnection, solar flares and MHD waves.
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.. custom-card:: Andy To
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:github: andyto1234
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:aff_name: European Space Research and Technology Centre
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:aff_link: https://andyto1234.github.io/andyto.uk/
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.. custom-card:: Steph Yardley
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:github: slyardley
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:aff_name: Northumbria University
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:aff_link: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/y/steph-yardley/
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:img_name: /_static/img/yardley_headshot.png
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Dr Steph Yardley is an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at Northumbria University.
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Her research focuses on understanding the pre-eruptive evolution of coronal mass ejections, the sources of solar energetic particles accelerated during these eruptions, and the origins of the solar wind, particularly using observations from Solar Orbiter.
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