Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Christophe Dumas
- Cedric Ledoux (Deputy Head of Dpt.)
- Sandy Strunk (Executive Assistant)
Group Leaders
- Stéphane Brillant (VLTI Group Coordinator)
- Antione Merand (Deputy VLTI Group Coordinator)
- Cédric Ledoux (Deputy and Operations Group Coordinator)
- Linda Schmidtobreick (Training and documentation)
- Steffen Mieske (Procedures)
- Thomas Szeifert (Survey Telescopes Group Coordinator)
- Alain Smette (Instrument Coordination Group Leader)
- Jonathan Smoker (Calista)
- Julien Girard (Adaptive Optics Group Coordinator -Future)
- Cecilia Ceron (Data Handling Administrators Group Leader)
- Julio Navarrete (Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader)
Telescope and Instrument Operators
- Karla Aubel
- Duncan Castex
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Angela Cortes
- Cristian Esparza
- Lorena Faundez
- Patricia Guajardo
- Cristian Herrera
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Manuel Olivares
- Andres Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
Data Handling Administrators
Astronomers
- Yazan Al Momany
- Andrea Ahumada
- Alvaro Alvarez
- A. Bayo
- Yuri Beletski
- Thomas Bensby
- Stéphane Brillant
- Giovanni Carraro
- M. Doellinger
- Andrew Fox
- Dimitri Gadotti
- S. Guieu
- Valentin Ivanov
- Petr Kabath
- Heidi Korhonen
- Cédric Ledoux
- Gianni Marconi
- Cristophe Martayan
- Elena Mason
- Claudio Melo
- Antoine Merand
- Steffen Mieske
- M. Moerchen
- G. Montagnier
- Dieter Nürnberger
- Fabien Patru
- M. Pretorius
- Emanuela Pompei
- Sridhar Rengaswamy
- Thomas Rivinius
- Ivo Saviane
- Ruben Sanchez
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Fernando Selman
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Stan Stefl
- Thomas Szeifert
- Maja Vukovic
- W. J. de Wit
- Irina Yegorova
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Sebastien Morel (VLTI System Engineering group)