EYRE 2022-e
2022 – present
Director
Accra Meridian Planetarium · Accra
- Run 300 public shows a year for about 90,000 visitors; annual attendance grew 38% since 2022 under a flat marketing budget.
- Manage a staff of 21 and a GHS 4.2M annual budget across shows, exhibits, and school outreach.
- Commissioned a 4K hybrid projection system in 2024; show cancellations from equipment faults fell from 14 to 2 per year.
EYRE 2018-c
2018 – 2022
Head of Programmes
Accra Meridian Planetarium · Accra
- Built and launched the mobile planetarium in 2020: a 7 m inflatable dome that has since reached 200 schools and 61,000 students.
- Wrote and produced 9 original dome shows in English, Twi, and Ga; two are now licensed to 5 planetariums abroad.
- Trained 34 teachers a year in a 3-day astronomy workshop, funded through 2 grants totalling GHS 850,000.
EYRE 2016-b
2014 – 2018
Staff Astronomer & Presenter
Accra Meridian Planetarium · Accra
- Presented roughly 180 live shows a year; audience scores averaged 4.6/5 across 2,400 collected surveys.
- Published 5 first-author papers on open cluster kinematics in the Journal of Equatorial Astronomy and Harmattan Astrophysics Letters.
EYRE 2014-a
2010 – 2014
Doctoral Researcher
Volta Institute of Space Science · Legon
- Thesis on velocity dispersion in southern open clusters; 3 papers from the thesis, 210 citations to date.
- Logged 46 observing nights at the Aburi Ridge 1.2 m telescope, including 11 as lead observer.