CTA’s Science Data Management Centre (SDMC), which will be in charge of science operations and make CTA’s science products available to the worldwide community, will be located in a new building complex on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) campus in Zeuthen, just outside Berlin.

Effective 1 March 2019, Stefan Schlenstedt will join the CTA Observatory (CTAO) as its Computing Coordinator. As a member of the CTA Project Office and part of the construction project, he will play a key role in coordinating software related activities.