Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Christophe Dumas
- Management Team (Musketeers):
- Sandy Strunk (Executive Assistant)
System Scientists
- Thomas Szeifert (Telescopes, AOF)
- Alain Smette (VLT Instruments)
- Antoine Merand (VLTI)
Group Leaders
- Stephane Brillant (VLTI Group Coordinator)
- Willem-Jan de Wit (Deputy VLTI Group Coordinator)
- Cedric Ledoux (Operations Group Coordinator)
- Henri Boffin (Training and documentation)
- Steffen Mieske (Procedures)
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- Jonathan Smoker (UT1)
- Cedric Ledoux (UT2)
- Linda Schmidtobreick (UT3)
- George Hau (UT4)
- Valentin Ivanov (Survey Telescopes Group Coordinator)
- Alain Smette (Instrument Coordination Group Leader)
- Claudio Melo (Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator)
- Giovanni Carraro
- Christophe Martayan
- Julien Girard (Adaptive Optics Group Coordinator)
- Cecilia Ceron (Data Handling Administrators Group Leader)
- Julio Navarrete (Instrument/ telescope/sub-systems commissioning)
- Andres Pino (Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader)
Telescope and Instrument Operators
- Karla Aubel
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Cristian Esparza
- Lorena Faundez
- Patricia Guajardo
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Andres Parraguez
- Diego Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Claudia Reyes
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
- Rodrigo Romero
- Sergio Vera
Data Handling Administrators
Astronomers
- Amelio Bayo
- Giacomo Beccari
- Jean-Phillipe Berger
- Henri Boffin
- Gabriel Brammer
- Stephane Brillant
- Giovanni Carraro
- John Carter
- Caroline Foster
- Dimitri Gadotti
- Julien Girard
- Sylvain Guieu
- George Hau
- Valentin Ivanov
- Dave Jones
- Petr Kabath
- Cedric Ledoux
- Gianluca Lombardi
- Cristophe Martayan
- Dimitri Mawet
- Claudio Melo
- Andrea Mehner
- Antoine Merand
- Steffen Mieske
- Yazan Al Momany
- Lorenzo Monaco
- Koraljka Muzic
- Fabien Patru
- Emanuela Pompei
- Sridharan Rengaswamy
- Myriam Rodrigues
- Thomas Rivinius
- Ivo Saviane
- Ruben Sanchez
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Fernando Selman
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Stan Stefl
- Grant Tremblay
- Pierre Vernazza
- Maja Vuckovic
- Willem Jan de Wit
- Roger Wesson
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Andreas Kaufer (Director's Office)
- Sebastien Morel (VLTI System Engineering group)
- Michael Sterzik (Director's Office)
- Thomas Szeifert (Director's Office)