Paranal Science Operations Department Staff
Head of Department
- Head of Department - Steffen Mieske
- HoD Deputies -
- System Scientists and Managers group (SysMan):
- Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader - Andres Pino
- Senior Executive Assistant - Sandy Strunk
System Scientists
- VLT Instruments - Alain Smette
- VLTI - Xavier Haubois
- Operations - Stephane Brillant
- Telescopes - Pascale Hibon
CCB (Change Control Board)
- Deputy CCB Chair - Stephane Brillant
Group Coordinators
- Training - Eleonora Sani
- GenOps - Andrea Mehner
- Unit Telescope Coordinators:
- UT1 - Joe Anderson
- UT2 - Luca Sbordone
- UT3 - Zahed Wahhaj
- UT4 - Bin Yang
- Survey Telescopes - Carlos la Fuente
- VLTI - Konrad Tristram
- Instrument Operations Team Coordinator
- Willem-Jan de Wit- Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator
- Alain Smette
- Deputy Instrument Operations Team Coordinator
- Webmaster - Thomas Rivinius and Andrea Mehner
- Op-IT Interface - Stephane Brillant
- Waivers
- RAF (Remote Access Facility)
- PSE (Paranal System Engineering)
Astronomers
- Michael Abdul-Masih
- Joe Anderson
- Trystyn Berg
- Fuyan Bian
- Stephane Brillant
- Alexandar Cikota
- Jesus Corral-Santana
- Robert De Rosa
- Willem Jan de Wit
- Ana Escorza
- Pedro Figueira
- Boris Haeussler
- Johanna Hartke
- Xavier Haubois
- Edmund Christian Herenz
- Pascale Hibon
- Matias Jones
- Darshan Kakkad
- Heidi Korhonen
- Kateryna Kravchenko
- Cedric Ledoux
- Gaspare Lo Curto
- Christophe Martayan
- Chiara Mazzucchelli
- Andrea Mehner
- Steffen Mieske
- Juan Carlos Munoz
- Camila Navarrete
- Angel Otarola
- Claudia Paladini
- Emanuela Pompei
- Thomas Rivinius
- Florian Rodler
- Eleonora Sani
- Luca Sbordone
- Linda Schmidtobreick
- Peter Scicluna
- Elyar Sedaghati
- Fernando Selman
- Ditte Slumstrup
- Alain Smette
- Jonathan Smoker
- Aleksandra Solarz
- Thomas Szeifert
- Romain Thomas
- Konrad Tristram
- Zahed Wahhaj
- Thomas Wevers
- Bin Yang
Astronomers on Paranal working for other departments
- Andreas Kaufer (Director)
- Thomas Klein (Deputy Director)
Telescope and Instrument Operators
Telescope and Instrument Operators Group Leader
- Andres Pino
Deputies
- Susana Cerda
- Cristian Romero
- Ivan Aranda
- Israel Blanchard
- Francisco Caceres
- Susana Cerda
- Claudia Cid
- Alex Correa
- Benjamin Courtney
- Marcela Espinoza
- Lorena Faundez
- Felipe Gaete
- Nestor Jimenez
- Carlos La Fuente
- Marcelo Lopez
- Julio Navarrete
- Juan Carlos Olivares
- Rodrigo Palominos
- Diego Parraguez
- Andres Pino
- Leonel Rivas
- Cristian Romero
- Rodrigo Romero
- Jose Velasquez